Hey guys a little help please

[pyr0000]

Hello all, im new to this forum but not to building pcs. well its time again to build another pc and after reading countless hours at toms and here and t-b, i have decied that i was going with the MSI-Diamond and a 3200+ and some consir ram and a gforce video card...
now i really dont think i will need sli now and if i do i can always upgrade the MB later for a few more bucks but i really like the fact the MSI diamond uses Soundblaster audio, i thought it came with wifi and bt but now it doesnt :frown:
i guess what i need to know is that i want a good pci-E MB with good onboard audio and good features, mainly i will use it for video encoding and gameing so i would like best of both, i have searched and searched but every seems to only review the sli boards, so if you guys could recomend a good PCI-E AMD MB and maybe a good video card as i was leaning towards the winfast px6600gt and the consair ram value pack and a seagate 160 sata W/ncq so please any info would be great. TIA

 

[ahurtt]

If you think you might want to do SLI in the future, then it is cheaper to buy the SLI motherboard now then to go with a single PCI-E motherboard and then buy a new one in the future. You don't have to put 2 video cards in just because the board is SLI ready. That being said, I was looking at buying the Abit AX8 as a single PCIE AMD board but I got sick of waiting for it to come out. . .I still don't think it has. It uses the VIA K8T890 chipset though and not the nForce 4. And the onboard audio is 5.1 I think. Maybe it will actually hit store shelves soon. I think it's worth a look.

If you DO decide to go single PCIE, I would get at least a 6800 GT for the video.

 

[pyr0000]

thanks alot, which sli board would you go with then? i like the SBlive with the MSI Diamond but the WIFI/BT thing sucks now
thanks in advance