> My brother bought a Antec case, and it seems fine.  Make sure you have
> a 300 watt or better supply.

I have the Antec sx1030 case.  It is a very nice, well-ventilated case
with the same 300watt power supply.  I'm not sure the Antec 300 watt
supply is strong enough on the +12v rail when running an athlon.  I
found out later that the Antec 300watt supply is in fact not AMD
approved for an Athlon system.  The Antec 400watt one is.

I have the Asus A7V board (1.1Ghz Tbird, 750Meg).  So far the jury is
still out on it.  I have had 2 netbsd-current hangs on it in 5 days.
One hang was when I was playing with spinning the second disk up and
down with "atactl wd1 setstandby 60".  The system hung at the time of
the spin up. The other hang was just a freeze when nothing of note was
going on.

I would definitely get the 400watt supply if I were doing it again.
In fact I'll probably just buy the Antec 400watt supply and put it in
the case just to eliminate that as the source of the stability
problem.

On drives: at this point I'm a bit down on the 7200rpm drives.  The
IBM one I have (IBM-DTLA-307075) is a bit of a screamer.  In contrast
the 5400 rpm IBM I have (IBM-DPTA-353750) has none of those shrill
overtones.

-wolfgang
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