[TriLUG] New motherboard recommendations?

[Joel Ebel]

AMD is really pushing the 64 bit line, so its no longer economical to 
build an athlon XP system.  If you're sticking with AMD, go with the 
athlon 64, unless you want to go on a budget and get the sempron.

As for motherboard recommendations, I don't have any personal 
experience, but arstechnica in the their system guide recommends the 
EPoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra, based on the nForce 4 chipset.  You might also want 
to check out tomshardware's review of several boards here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050513/index.html
He seems to like the Abit and MSI boards, which also use nforce4.  He 
also did a review of an Asus A8N SLI which he liked.  Based on that I'd 
say people like the nforce4, so from intrex you can go with an MSI K8N 
NEO4-F for $86.20 or an Asus A8N-E for 135.80.  Either would be a fine 
choice for your shiny new athlon64.

Joel

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I'm thinking of upgrading my motherboard at home, and wondering if anyone
> has recommendations. Considering either AMD64 or a fast Athlon XP. The
> main concern is actually RAM: I want to be able to have at least 3G
> available, as I tend to run lots of things at once including big stats
> runs and vmware.
> 
> Advice?
> 
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