Please Help Me Choose A MB

[mmikrut2009]

My system has fried and my mother board had died, please help me choose a good gaming board for my existing components.

EVGA GF 7800GT 256
Intel Pentium 4 3.8Ghz
2X 1G OCZ DDR2 667
250 GB Wesxtern SATA Hard Drive
ASUS DVD drive

I really appreciate any replies, thanks!

 

[aevm]

GA-EP43-DS3L, $95+$9
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128347
It supports Pentium, but also more recent CPUs like Q6600 or Q9450. It supports your card, but also more recent PCI-E 2.0 cards like the HD 4850.
It doesn't have RAID, but you listed a single HDD so I guess that's OK.

GA-EP35-DS3L, $85+$9
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337&Tpk=GA-EP35-DS3L
Same thing, but you pay $10 less and get only PCI-E 1 instead of PCI-E 2, and fewer SATA ports. Neither of these hurts with your current config. Still, if you can afford the extra $10, get the GA-EP43-DS3L


There are a lot of better boards out there, but I'm assuming you want something cheap. With your setup, it would be criminal to spend $250 on a motherboard, when you could spend the same cash on a GA-EP43-DS3L and a HD 4850 and get several times the fps.