Mobo

[pc1972]

Need to get a mobo for my project. What should I look for and what would be suggested for low-mid-high end machine. Definitely need 64 bit and prefer AMD athlon. HELP

[[D]ark[A]cid]

What is it low, mid or high end? What kinda price range are you looking at?

[pc1972]

I am trying to figure out my options. If I have something in each category I can look and see what the differences are and then go from there.

[Malatory]

High End would be : http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qw.html

Link to a store with it http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merch...ct_Code=100557

Midrange: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131540
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813136151

Lowend:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128307

[Zeus]

quite extremist, wouldn't you say, Mal? But then again, an intended price range would be nice

[Malatory]

quite extremist, wouldn't you say, Mal? But then again, an intended price range would be nice

I do want the one from ManarchComputers .. But yes its on the Extrem side.

Rest I would say may Fit more into the Range he is asking for.

[pc1972]

I am willing to spend about $150 on a mobo...depending on how much the CPU would be. I saw the posts earlier and I just got my Maximum PC Building A Dream PC book in the mail so I have been reading up.

And yeah...that is a little extreme....OR IS IT!!!!!!!!!

[Malatory]

Ok do you want PCI-E or AGP for the Graphics Card?

what I would look for.
Socket 939
Nforce 4 Chip set

My top Manufactures of Mobo's
ASUS
MSI
DFI

[pc1972]

What are PCI-E and AGP? Remember I am in the rookie corner. ha ha

[Arctic Fox]

He means a PCI Express video card, which is capable of delivering about double the bandwidth rates of AGP 8x, but current games dont really require that much bandwidth,
or AGP vid card...which would be the type of card you most likely have now
i am getting my system this xmas and i still am going to be using my AGP geforce 6800, but PCI-E will be teh future of cards so it depends what you want
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1087
theres plenty more info out there, just look it up on google...i read somewhere that AGP cards will be safe for at least a few more years so i'm not too worried about PCI-E yet