Build your own? Suse 8.2 w/MSI Athlon 2600+

[sweetser at TheWorld.com (Doug Sweetser)]

Hello Rich:

I still work on a 200 MHz machine.  Blackbox is a great way to avoid
bloatware.  Emacs, MH, a few perl scripts, my day-to-day work does not
stress my box.  I have started to do some animations, and those could
use an order of magnitude speed improvement.  

The tower is over six years old, but has not had a major fault.  So
far the only major things I've done is swap a few hard disks.
Motherboard replacement sounds like open heart surgery.  How long did
switching the motherboard take?  Is this something that a first timer
should try?  Is there enough solid documentation, from PCs for
everyone or a great FAQ on the process?


doug