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What motherboard would you recommend? My knowledge of good motherboards are around four years old.

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What kind of processor?

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What are you wanting to do with the system.. Do you want SATA or just straight IDE... Onboard everything or Onboard as little as possible...

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For Intel: 478 socket (at least 2.8GHz prescott/northwood), either 865 or 875 chipset

AMD: Athlon 64 3000 (don't remember socket)

SATA

Onboard: (Optional) ALC650 minimum. Nothing else.

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Abit KV8-MAX3

Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP

Asus P4C800-E

MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R

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Anthos, you get my email?

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Just after I posted this, yes. Ventrilo?

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Athlon 64 CPUs with the 3xxx+ numbers are Socket 754. The nForce3 250chipset boards are just starting to come out. If you're a tweaker, these are a better choice than the nForce3 150 or VIA K8T800 chipsets, simply because of the AGP/PCI divider. They'll be spendy, though, because they're brand new parts.

For Intel I wouldn't rule out the VIA KT880 chipset or a board that uses the SiS 655TX chipset. If you want to go Intel on the chipset, I'd get the 875 over the 865 simply because Intel meant for PAT to run on the 875 and board makers have had to kluge a PAT emulation together for the 865.

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