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Advice for a rock-solid mobo with 875 or 865 chipset

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halfadder

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I'm building a system for a friend who needs rock-solid relibility above everything else. The system will be used for a home office doing light to medium duty CAD work. The GFX card will need to have about Radeon 9600 Pro performance. Anyway... do you have recommendations for a mobo with a 875 or 865 chipset? Stability, support, and BIOS maturity are important. This system will not be overclocked and it will only have two drives: one SATA hard drive and one ATA optical drive. I was originally thinking of going with an Intel board, but I have heard bad things about their boards from the past year. Thanks in advance!
 
Someone recommended an msi 865 neo2-v ($68 at newegg). I use an earlier version of this board, and it runs and overclocks my p4 very well, but I don't use sata, so I have no experience with the sata driver. Msi has good customer support, and direct rma if needed. I use a 9600se video card, so I know the ati cards work ok with this board. I would read some reviews at newegg. I have also used msi's "live update" bios flash program twice, and it works well.
 
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