Today's Great Motherboards

[fkdup74]

i got a VIA chipset on my current mobo, not bad for an OOOOOLD fkr
they seem to do pretty well with driver updates and such too
but i will have to read through VB1234's link to tom's before i commit to one or another
(i didnt get past the "object of desire" on page two, i shot my wad and had to clean up)

[feygan]

Running an MSI K8N neo platinum socket 754 at the mo, has nForce 3 on board with a 250Gb Lan, so far no hassles. Very nice board except for being a littler picky about the RAM it likes.

[lynx]

Socket 939 is definitely the choice if you want ultimate performance - double the memory bandwidth of socket 745 and 25% more HyperTransport bandwidth - all controlled directly by the CPU so the chipset is not as important as long as it is capable of supporting the speeds.

I looked at the boards on the link above, I can't say I was too impressed by the layout of the MSI board - heat from the cpu will certainly make sure the memory doesn't get cold.

I like the idea of Nvidia's single chip design - no need for a chip interconnect so everything should run slightly faster. However, it is a top end chip so you will pay top end prices.