Athlon 64 Motherboard advise

DEBigworm

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Jul 16, 2005
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Hello,
I am a long time reader but a first time poster and I was hoping that I sould get some advise on what motherboard I should buy. I picked up a Gigabyte ga-k8nsc plus a 3200+ processor already but they are going back to the store tomorrow (the board keeps re-booting randomly)

What I am looking for more than anything else is stability. I don't plan on overclocking so that I not an issue. I would just like to throw it in my case and not have to worry about it for a while. I am not a hardcore gamer but if I see a game that I like I would like to make sure that I can play it with no problems and that I will look decent

The only thing that I am dead set on is that I am joing to be buying a Radeon 800xt at the same time that I buy the mother board so I need a board that can support that.

The equepment that I will be carrying over from my old computer is:

Coolermaster Centurion 530 case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119076

Antec True Power 480W Power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103929

GEIL 1gig (2x512) pc3200 cas 2.0 memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144332

and a few misc drives. If anyone sees anything that I will need to switch out before I upgrade I would also be thankful for the advise.
 

The Pentium Guy

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Jan 15, 2005
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AGP? You need to look at nforce3/VIA K8T800.
Try the ASUS A8V. Or better yet the MSI Neo2 Platinum - but you might experience some problems with that board (my friend who set it up experienced numerous issues).

Actually, screw all that. There's a DFI nForce3 board out. Take a look at that ;)!