Good motherboard for internet use and word processing,etc.

[ingeborgdot]

This computer I am building must be cost effective. We don't need a lot of bells and whistles. The person I am building it for needs to use it for internet research, microsoft office and other minor tasks. It is not going to be overclocked and won't be used for games. I do want to go with the xp 64 as it is as cost effective as the other amd chips. I want a board that has good relability and has good tech support. I have built some with gigabyte boards which are awesome but their tech support was kind of iffy. They were on the line fast and tried to be very helpful but everyone I talked to about a couple of issues all had different things to say. What company can give all that????? Thanks.

 

[Odeen]

If you want cost-effective Athlon64 without a lot of bells and whistles, I'd get an ECS 755-A2. Socket754, so you're using "value" processors, has onboard LAN, sound and SATA, and is based on the inexpensive SiS 755 chipset, which is the fastest A64 chipset this side of the nForce3-250.

Tech support would be kind of iffy, but there aren't a lot of motherboard companies famous for tech support, and any company that would choose to differentiate itself on such basis won't be as cost-effective as ECS.