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Which motherboard should I get?

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Geoff

Junior Member
Hi everyone...

I'll be building a new PC, and I seem to have been able to pick out all other parts fairly easily. I'm having trouble picking a motherboard, however. The main other components of the system will be as follows:

Case: Antec P150
CPU: Athlon64 X2 4200+ processor
Video: eVGA 7800GT (PCI-E)
HD: Western Digital 250GB Cavier SE (16mb cache)

As for the motherboard, I'm looking for something that'll be solid and realiable. I don't plan on doing any overclocking, nor do I ever plan on doubling-up the video cards and doing the SLI thing. Onboard sound and networking would be good. I don't want to spend too much money, but I'll spend what I have to to get a good board (though I figure that since I'm not looking for anything fancy, I won't have to be getting a super-expensive board anyway).

The computer will be used mainly for internet, e-mail, word-processing, and the occasional game. Within the next six months or so, it'll also be used as something of a digital audio workstation (recording/mixing with Pro Tools), but I'm not looking at building a dedicated DAW.

Anyway, any help or advice you could give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
~Geoff
 
Thanks for the suggestion. Just curious what your reasoning would be behind that choice?

Also, although it's not necessary critical, I was intending on purchases most of the parts from one particular store that I've had a positive experience with in the past, and unfortunately it doesn't seem as though they carry Epox boards. Their selection can be viewed at:
http://www.atic.ca/index.php?page=Products&cat=3

Does anyone else have any ideas/comments/suggestions?

Thanks!
 
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