Hi;
Had a thread about 2 weeks ago or so in General Hrdw. but got no difinitive answers. Now I have to find something that is good quickly or my husband will be home tomorrow and I can tell he's leaning back to building an Intel.
We are looking for a motherboard, chip and PCI video card and possibly a sound card if the onboard sound is not good. We will be reusing the Antec Sonata case, the Power supply, the memory and the hard drives/optical drives.
A friend of my husbands had a real problem with a DFI nForce 4 Ultra board (it died and DFI is giving him a big hassle honoring the warranty) so I don't think a DFI board is an option, plus, it's for our sons and they won't be overclocking so that's not an issue. We just need a good solid motherboard with onboard, netowrking, SATA and onboard sound doesn't matter really if it's not very good, we'll buy a new sound card also.
We've talked it over and he wants to stay with a good name brand if at all possible like Abit or Asus but which of their 939 A64 boards is the best, most stable?
Also, which video/sound card would give the best all round performance with the best compatability for games?
Had a thread about 2 weeks ago or so in General Hrdw. but got no difinitive answers. Now I have to find something that is good quickly or my husband will be home tomorrow and I can tell he's leaning back to building an Intel.
We are looking for a motherboard, chip and PCI video card and possibly a sound card if the onboard sound is not good. We will be reusing the Antec Sonata case, the Power supply, the memory and the hard drives/optical drives.
A friend of my husbands had a real problem with a DFI nForce 4 Ultra board (it died and DFI is giving him a big hassle honoring the warranty) so I don't think a DFI board is an option, plus, it's for our sons and they won't be overclocking so that's not an issue. We just need a good solid motherboard with onboard, netowrking, SATA and onboard sound doesn't matter really if it's not very good, we'll buy a new sound card also.
We've talked it over and he wants to stay with a good name brand if at all possible like Abit or Asus but which of their 939 A64 boards is the best, most stable?
Also, which video/sound card would give the best all round performance with the best compatability for games?