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texasized

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I was wondering what everyone thought the best all around mother board and CPU are? I am looking to keep the price under 400 for both. I would like a built in LAN and USB 2.0. Built in sound would be nice also. Don't use it for any video editing or anything like that but would like it to have the capability to do entry level edeting if so desired.

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Dwayne
 
If it lives up to Iwill's track record, the new K7S2-N should be great. You can read about and see it on the www.ocworkbench.com Iwill section of their forums. That and a 1700+ or 1800+ Athlon XP with a Speeze HSF should run about $175. shipped. Hardly anyone needs more than than and it leaves plenty of green for other goodies.
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If you're going to be doing editing, I would reccommend going the Intel route as its been proven benchmark after benchmark that the Pentium4 excels at multimedia applications as opposed to the AthlonXP. Also, a lot of the software being used for video editing is SSE2 optimized, which give a great advantage to the P4 platform.
 
Asus A7N8X Deluxe -Awesome onboard sound, dual nic's, 1002 BIOS unlocks t-bred b's, has plenty usb2, serial ata supporting raid 0,1 ,Barton ready, nForce 2 chipset.
Any t-bred b should be good. I have an xp2400 266 running on a 333 right now in it.
Entry level editing can be done adequetly on any athlon system. Even on faster PC's I'd recommend setting it up to process over night.
 
The integrated sound of the nforce2 (MCP-T) is top notch - better than audigy1 and near audigy2. I would pick Abit NF7-S Revision 1.2 if ya can find one (excaliberPC.com sells it but it's currently out of stock, taking pre-orders). Else, pick Epox 8RDA+. If there's a possibility of overclocking, get the AMD XP 2100+ TBred-B (excaliberPC.com). If not, get the 2500+ Barton. For cpu cooling, if overclocking, I would go with a thermalright SK-7 or SLK-800 heatsink and YS Tech or Thermaltake 80mm x 80mm x 25mm fan. If not overclocking, get HAC-V81 heatsink+fan.
 
The SiS 746FX chipset matches the nforce2 within +/- 5% on any measurement and the SiS 735-up are AMD chipsets recommended by some of the video software developers. And as far as intel goes, AMD solutions blow them away on a dollar-for-dollar basis. If you find you really need it, the 746FX will support the fastest AMD CPUs, 200+MHz FSB, etc. See the HUGE CPU comparison on Toms Hardware .
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