[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting looking vendor

[Christopher Browne]

What with the "disappearance" of the 3rd Saturday events at InfoMart,
the DFW region "component vendors" have become a tad more elusive; the
link mentioned earlier this week on <http://www.vikingcomputers.net/>
makes at least one of these a little less elusive.

Have people had good/bad reports on these guys?

And a somewhat hardware-oriented question: Is there any useful comparative
information between:
 a) Athlon
 b) Duron
 c) Thunderbird?

Bottom end motherboard+CPU for _any_ of the three seems to be available
for around $150-$160; is there good reason to prefer/deprecate some of
these? Athlons seem to scale to higher MHz values than the other two,
and "Duron" appears not to have higher speeds available, but as we all
know, the number of MHz matters less than overall performance, and that
can vary qiute a bit...
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