Building my own computer

maybe get the asus A7M266 instead and a new graficcard.

I'd have to go with the other guy, the A7A266 is cheaper than the A7M266 because the A7A comes with the -much- inferior ALi Magik chipset.

I've a malformed public-duty gland & a lack of moral fibre & therefor excused from saving universes

Instead go with Asus, you can take a look at different mobo such as Gigabyte GA-7DXC (<b><A HREF="http://bqueen.pricewatch.com/search/search.idq?ne=30683&l=30637&qc=7dxc" target="_new">$117</A></b> ).

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

How about the SiS 735 board? Isn't that supposed to be the best AMD mobo out? Not sure of the price, but I would rather pay a little more for better stability in the SiS.

<font color=blue>"Yeah, microchips, but what... is it good for?"</font color=blue>

The A7A is CHOICE and FAR better than ANYTHING with ANY VIA parts including the A7M which is totally destroyed by it's use of the VIA southbridge. Oh, and for all that stability and compatability improvement you do have to suffer less performance to the tune of about 2-3%! So anyone who calls it gabage because of that 2-3% has crap for brains and doesn't deserve to be giving out advice!
ONE, exactly ONE guy in here claims there is a DDR compatability problem. He might be right, then again, maybe not. To hedge all bets I would recommend using Crucial ram, simply because that's what Tom used in his test, and it did not have problems.
Oh, and Tom ripped the board for not having multiplier jumpers. Forget that. Use the bus for overclocking and manually set the multiplier if needed on the CPU itself. Other than that and an early BIOS problem (solved with version 1004), he actually liked the board and it did VERY WELL in his test. Other testers have had lots of good to say for this board. And I have not heard of ANY cards that were not compatable with it. A friend of mine uses one with all his old parts from his PII system, and all the cards worked! And it's been up for over a month overclocked to 1333 from 1000. Try THAT with any board that relies on a VIA component!

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

I agree, definately do not get the A7A266 as the ali chipset is terrible. Any amd 760 chipset based board is the best choice right now as the sis 735 boards are not available yet. You can get the Epox 8K7A motherboard based on the amd 760 for $120 from www.newegg.com and all the reviews I've seen of this board have been very positive. You can also get the MSI K7 Master which, tom loves, based on the amd 760 from the same website for $140. And I agree with the previous post, go with crucial ram its cheap and very reliable.

i cant find the noisecontrol anywhere so i was going to find a different one. possibly a CoolerMaster or GlobalWIN. thanks for that newegg site, it has great prices thanks for the other suggestions, too. it will lower the price by a bit

How's he flamming ? People come here to ask questions, thats what he did. Just becasue he's going AMD, your getting offended, dear god.

-MeTaL RoCkEr

AMD = Always Making Dough... =)

Grow up...
Have you forgotten what you were supposed to learn in school. 2 guys can't have kids BIOLOGICALLY with each other. Idiot.
I think now Booso is insisting that I'm gay, dude, stop b4 u run ur mouth even further in the ground (and than behind a jail cell).

-MeTaL RoCkEr

AMD = Always Making Dough... =)