I would appreciate some recommendations on a new Motherboard

[leeland]

In the somewhat near future I am planning on upgrading my Mobo and Ram.

Right now I have a Epox 8HKA+ with 1 Gig of PC 2100 Ram.

I feel like it is not up to the tasks of late (i.e. games and encoding music/ movies) plus I want to build a second computer for secondary tasks...(server, multimedia PC)

So I am looking for a board that will preferably take the current processor I have now and be somewhat expandable for newer processors...

I would like to have some extras like on board LAN, Firewire, USB 2.0...

To be honest I haven't been reseaching the boards as of late...and I am not asking for you to do it for me...

All I want is some brands that you might recommend and some models that you think in your opinion are worthy


Thanks in advance

Leeland

 

[Shimmishim]

how much do you want to spend?

the best boards at this moment are the abit nf7-s (not nf7-s2), dfi ultra infinity...

yeah.... both are awesome boards and have lots of onboard stuff that you'll be able to use...

 

[leeland]

I am in the process of selling my PDA which I would hope to get over 200 bones for...so I would expect to pay around 350-500 bones for a nice board and some decent Ram, but I might go higher depending on what is out there....

I have not been following the advances with Motherboards of late but I know they are making some big changes so I am leary of upgrading right at that chance and am curious if it might be wiser to just wait till fall...


I also want to upgrade my sound card down the road to the newer Audigy 2 ZS compared to my soundblaster patinum 5.1


if you have a decent review of the board you would recommend please post the link


Thanks so much

Leeland