motherboards: nForce3 or VIA?

[SDB100]

currently building an AMD64 3400+ system, my plan includes the the ASUS K8V motherboard (VIA north/southbridge), was curious if I would be better off going with the CHAINTECH nForce3 150 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU, Model "ZNF3-150 ZENITH"?

Also, for ram, currently considering Mushkin PC3200 ram, curious if Kingston is a better option.

 

[o1die]

I like mushkin ddram. It overclocks well. Have you read anandtech's review of the 755-a board from ecs? You may want to wait a little longer for asus's version of 755.

 

[Rob423]

All i know is, Once nVIDIA started making the NFORCE chipsets, i've had and seen nothing but good from them, currently running nFORCE 2.... and next system will deff be nFORCE 3... they have awesome onboard sound and is just a great performing piece of work

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
200gb WD 8mb cache..
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Crashman]

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The best current A64 motherboards are:
Soyo K8USA (ALi chipset)
ECS 755-A2 (SiS chipset).

If you wait you'll see better SiS chipset boards on the market, as well as a new version of the nForce3 called the "250".

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