AMD 64 mobo recommendation

[Chevyboy]

Hi all,

A buddy of mine wants to buy my system which consists of the following,

Abit NF7-S mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ cpu
1 gig ram
MSI Geforce3 Ti200 video card (don't do much gaming anymore)
Western digital 80gig 7200rpm 8mb Hard drive ( I have a Maxtor 120gig as well, not selling it though)
Liteon 812s dvd burner.


Now I figure since I'm selling my system and now I need a new one I might as well go PCI Express. Now I've kinda picked the cpu, which is AMD 64 3000+ (venice). I'm going to buy another 120gig HD and a new DVD burner as well as another gig of memory.

So I now need a recommendation for a AMD 64 mobo with PCIe. Mobo should have onboard DD audio, onboard firewire, gigabit ethernet possibly, sata as the new drive will be sata. This mobo doesn't really need to be O\C'able and if possible have onboard video. I haven't seen to many that have onboard video yet, my problem is cash flow. I would like to keep the price down if at all possible.

Any help would be awesome!

Cheers,
Chevy:beer:

 

[o1die]

You can save on the video card by using the radeon xpress 200 boards by ecs or msi. Both around $90, and even using integrated video will play many games at medium resolution with directx 9b support. Msi board has 4 memory slots, ecs has 2 and a few overclocking settings.

 

[Solema]

What o1die said, or if you don't necessarily need onboard VGA, check out MSI's NForce4 boards. Most of them come with onboard Creative SB Live! with Dolby Digital.

Or, if you have a month or so to play with, NVidia's C51G onboard graphics solution is just around the corner, having been announced at Computex.

 

[imported_Starman]

I recommend waiting at least a month or so because new boards are due to be released in the very near future.

 

[Chevyboy]

Well that's what I was kinda thinking. Also is PCI-E really that much faster than what most are using right now? Is the extra expense really worth it? I don't game at all, but I do some video editing and photoshop stuff. I really would like to get the AMD 64 3000+ and mobo to go with it, but at the same time I don't want to break the bank as well. I just upgraded to my current setup, (see above) in Oct. last year.

What do you think??

Cheer,
Chevy