Please give me some advice on MB choice

[Anthony2816]

My last few CPU have been AMD's, and for my next upgrade I'd like to try a P4 (I'm thinking of a 2.4C since they seem amenable to overclocking to 3.0 ghz, but I'm open to suggestions). Can you people save me a bunch of time and suggest some motherboards for me? I'd like:

P4 (Northwood and Prescott)
SATA and IDE drive support
Onboard video and sound not req'd.
Onboard ethernet a plus.
Plan to overclock, so plenty of appropriate bios settings a plus.
Initially want to use an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP video card.
No use at present for PCI express slots, but I think they'd be good to have for future use.

I recently built a system for a friend that used the Chaintech 9CJS Zenith. Nice board, but I'd have no use for the Giga-lan, remote control, diagnostic 5.25" panel, memory card reader, etc. In other words, I'd prefer not to pay $169 for a motherboard with a bunch of extras if one that's well under $100 would meet my needs.

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[o1die]

Newegg still has a soyo 865pe dragon 2 mobo for $5 after rebate (you only pay for shipping). I use the 2.8c, and am running it at 3.64 (30% overclock) with an msi 865pe neo2 LS (discontinued). Funny though, even at this speed, it doesn't seem that fast. I would still like to try athlon 64 when the 9 micron cpus start shipping from venders.

 

[Anthony2816]

Sounds excellent! May not be the highest-rated motherboard, but it sounds like it has the features I want, and you can't beat the price.

I ordered one today.

Now I just have to figure out which P4 to put in it...