I'm looking to put together a relatively cheap system to more or less replace the guts of my current computer (and eventually turn over to my wife for her WoW system). I've decided on an Athlon 64 X2 4000, but I'm not sure what motherboard to get.
■I will never overclock this computer.
■I have no intention of running SLI.
■I want something that's well-built and reliable but not expensive because it comes with premium features I don't need (i.e., gigabit ethernet).
■Firewire would be nice to have, since I have a Firewire card reader.
I remember that when I built my current computer, XP couldn't detect my SATA hard drive because of some peculiarity with my chipset until I found drivers it could load via my floppy drive. It'd be nice if the next motherboard I buy would not have this problem, but I don't really want to reinstall XP on this system anyway, if I can avoid it.
Thanks!
■I will never overclock this computer.
■I have no intention of running SLI.
■I want something that's well-built and reliable but not expensive because it comes with premium features I don't need (i.e., gigabit ethernet).
■Firewire would be nice to have, since I have a Firewire card reader.
I remember that when I built my current computer, XP couldn't detect my SATA hard drive because of some peculiarity with my chipset until I found drivers it could load via my floppy drive. It'd be nice if the next motherboard I buy would not have this problem, but I don't really want to reinstall XP on this system anyway, if I can avoid it.
Thanks!