Re: Upgrading Mobo and CPU
If you don't need the extra PATA porte, PATA raid or the extra SATA ports you could save money by dropping down from the Deluxe to the standard A8V.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127181
or the Abit AV8.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813127181
If you don't need Firewire you could save even more by going for the MSI K8T NEO2-F.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130469
Whichever you go for, don't forget that they all have 24-pin power connectors, so you are either going to have to upgrade your power supply, or if you think your current PSU is good enough find a 20-pin to 24-pin adapter.
Re: Upgrading Mobo and CPU
Personally, I don't think it makes sense to buy into 64 bit chips without getting PCIe at the same time.
Both ATI and nVidia have stopped support for the new cards in AGP so you have no real video upgrade path with that interface.
There are some semi-decent, low-end PCIe cards available, so for $70-100 you can buy into an upgradable platform.
I much prefer the nvidia nForce4 chipset in the socket 939 boards.
The Gigabyte Ultra 939 has been very successful for the shop ( and me, too) and I'm now trying the DFI LP SLI DR, which is reputed to be the very hottest board for sport clocking.
Re: Upgrading Mobo and CPU
alrite thanx for the reply guys, ill look into the PCIe cards too as well and see wat i can find!