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I just recently got a ton of hardware but still need to get a motherboard and CPU . I am planning on getting a 939 socket motherboard to incorporate a Athlon64 3500 chip. Here is what I have and if you could help me choose a motherboard I would appreciate it.

Seagate 160 ultra ATA/100 Hard drive
Antec 500 W neo HE power supply
Lian LI aluminum case
BFG 6800GT OC graphics card AGP
1GB Ram(one stick)

Thanks in advance.

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I'd go with the epox ep-9npaj with nforce3 chipset. It's strictly agp, but the price has dropped to only $74 at newegg.

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1 GB sticks of ram are really nice, but the 939 boards need "a pair" to run dual-channel. You may want to consider getting two 512MB sticks instead, or put the money up for another 1GB stick.
2Gigs of ram won't do much to help with overclocking and/or speed issues, but it will make "multi-tasking" and big files go a whole lot smoother. 8)

I currently am running on an ASRock Dual 939 mainboard and love it. :P It is very reasonably priced, has the latest SATA II controller, and has full support for BOTH AGP and PCIe Video Cards.


My current system ...

Athlon 3800 Venice Core @2.6Ghz 8)
ASRock Dual 939 Mainboard
1GB OCZ DDR400 (low latency)
XFX 7800GT PCIe Video
1-SATA II 80GB Hitachi HDD
2-SATA Raid 0+1 80GB Hitachi HDD's
Antec TruePower 550W PSU
2-21" ViewSonic G810 Monitors


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