Mother Board

[asmithz]

I am starting a new job next week, so i am going to start my cutom pc. What would you recommend for a mother board, and how much does it cost?

[Lamsey]

For Athlon XP based systems, they don't come much better than the Asus A7N8X Deluxe, but it's not cheap.

Any board with the nForce2 Ultra-400 chipset should be an excellent choice.

If you're going Intel... I don't know, because I don't waste my money on them personally, so I've never researched it.

[asmithz]

Price is not a problem i will take the time to raise enogh to get it. I really want the best comp i can get. :P

[asmithz]

Anything that holds more then 3gig ram.

[3rd gen noob]

i'd second the vote for the ASUS A7N8X-D

(i'm not biased, honest... :rolleyes: )

[asmithz]

Its not pricey its only $120, i think i might get it what tower works with it?

[3RA1N1AC]

up till now, i would have recommended getting an Nforce2-based motherboard (if you were to choose AMD, of course)... but right now is a pretty bad time to be choosing parts for a computer, imho. the 64-bit Athlon ("Athlon64") is coming out before the end of the month, which supports both 32-bit (the PC standard for the past several years) and 64-bit (the next step for PCs, which is just starting to gel) programs.

if you were to wait for the 64-bit Athlons & motherboards, you would need to get a 64-bit version of Windows (or Linux, if that suits your tastes) and most programs would not be available in 64-bit versions yet. but for the programs and games that do come out in AMD64 versions soon, you should see very nice performance advantages, and more & more software authors should eventually follow with 64-bit versions of their programs. in the meantime, it still supports all of the current 32-bit Windows software (and runs it very fast)... but my point is, it's more futureproof than the previous generation of CPUs.

making a significant investment in a 32-bit PC right now could be something you end up regretting, since the newer technology is right on the horizon. so you should read about 64-bit and see what it is, and decides if it would be a better choice for you.

links--
official site: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...99_7980,00.html (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_4699_7980,00.html)
news from software developers: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,3...39115539,00.htm (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020354,39115539,00.htm)
athlon64 motherboards: http://www.amdboard.com/k8boards.html
pre-release benchmark scores: http://www.tbreak.com/forums/showthread.ph...&threadid=19317 (http://www.tbreak.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19317)

[asmithz]

Thanks i guess i should wait. Sounds good.