I am putting together a decent system when I get my taxes this year and am needing some help here. I will name some of the things I have or plan on getting and am hoping some of you all can give me some advice on what board to go with. I would like to go with Asus as I used to work there for tech support BUT most of their boards would have to have the BIOS sent in to be flashed to go with the AMD Athlon 64 San Diego 3700+ I am wanting to go with. Here is a list of what I already have or plan on getting:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 San Diego 3700+ socket 939
CASE: Asys Z-50 RobotYLW Link to Newegg - I haven't bought the case yet but just liked the looks of that one plus the LED that tells the temp.
VIDEO CARD: Leadtek PX6600LE 256 MB PCI-Express X16 - Liked this card as it looked like a decent card for under a $100 (I am not a gamer so an awesome video card setup is not really of that importance to me)
MEMORY: OCZ Premier Dual Channel 1 GB (2x512) PC3200 184 pin DDR (2 sets for 2 gig total)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 160 gig SATA II drive 7200 RPM (2 of these running in RAID 0)
DVD+-RW: Asus 16x dual layer DRW-1608P2S (already have and love it)
DVD-ROM: Asus E616A (already have)
Here are some of the things the board must have:
[*]PCI Express not AGP
[*]4 SATA II ports that support RAID 0
[*]4 DDR slots that of course have dual channel capability
[*]Preferably would take the 3700+ with 1 meg L2 without having to have a BIOS update
If there is anything else you all think I should look another route or anything I am open to suggestions. Thanks for your time in advance!!
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 San Diego 3700+ socket 939
CASE: Asys Z-50 RobotYLW Link to Newegg - I haven't bought the case yet but just liked the looks of that one plus the LED that tells the temp.
VIDEO CARD: Leadtek PX6600LE 256 MB PCI-Express X16 - Liked this card as it looked like a decent card for under a $100 (I am not a gamer so an awesome video card setup is not really of that importance to me)
MEMORY: OCZ Premier Dual Channel 1 GB (2x512) PC3200 184 pin DDR (2 sets for 2 gig total)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 160 gig SATA II drive 7200 RPM (2 of these running in RAID 0)
DVD+-RW: Asus 16x dual layer DRW-1608P2S (already have and love it)
DVD-ROM: Asus E616A (already have)
Here are some of the things the board must have:
[*]PCI Express not AGP
[*]4 SATA II ports that support RAID 0
[*]4 DDR slots that of course have dual channel capability
[*]Preferably would take the 3700+ with 1 meg L2 without having to have a BIOS update
If there is anything else you all think I should look another route or anything I am open to suggestions. Thanks for your time in advance!!