suggest a motherboard

[evechey]

I am building a PC for someone who is interested in d/l'ing and storing alot of data.
so far i have decided on:

2 WD caviar 320GB SATA HDs
2 Gigs (4x512) Rosewill PC3200 RAM
Athlon 64 3000+
An ATI PCi Express Vid Card
(the rest budget, [besides PowerSupply])
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What is a good motherboard around 100-150 that supports these items, and is reliable
I also need to put a video card in for <200 and was thinking an ATI card. I need it to support all these things, and having a wireless feature is helpful, and I would also like onboard sound and dual channel memory (4 slots).

If you need anymore information from me, just let me know.

 

[will889]

If all that person needs is storage it looks like you are on the right path, but 2 gigs is unecesarry IMO as 1 gig would be fine. If the person is doing moderate video editing i would add the extra gig. If heavy video editing i would use raided HDD's. But it sound like you may already have listed what this person needs. Be sure to choose a reliable mobo like an Asus or MSI, or Biostar (though cheap they tend to be the most stable of any brand).

 

[Vette73]

Better to get 2 1gig slabs. Read the report on the front page of anandtech.com

but for a board the DFI can;t be beat.

DFI

 

[silentvois]

Yeah overall the dfi is a real good board, takes some work tweaking memory settings but once that's done everything's set. But if you don't all the tweaks for overclcoking you could go for a cheaper motherboard like the asus a8n-e or epox 9npa+ ultra or chaintech vnf4 ultra. Just get whatever's cheaper of em.