Originally posted by: mechBgon
Originally posted by: taltosit
Ok, perhaps I should state what I will use my puter for.
Of course I want it for regualr Internet stuff such as surfing, and email.
I want to run and use things such as Word Processing, Excel, Power Point, and a MultiSim Electronic workbench, and some serious gaming. =)
Some of the additional hardware will be a scanner and a digital camera. So, I guess there will be some image manipulation.
Now, taking your advice on the AMD dual motherboard, here is what I found.
Asustek A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard
Is this a good choice?
It's a good
single-processor board, and I use one at work (
specs, some of the parts listed are currently in transit). I don't do any serious gaming at work, of course, but it's very satisfactory for hardcore file manipulation, image editing, all manner of office work and so forth.
If you want a dual-processor AMD board, then a Tyan TigerMPX would be a safe bet (it will accept your ATX power supply and fits many popular cases), but be aware that it doesn't offer as many cool goodies as the nForce2 boards such as A7N8X-Deluxe. No Firewire, no USB 2.0, no support for 333MHz-based or 400MHz-based CPUs. It does offer 64-bit PCI slots, if you want to run a burly PCI RAID card and/or a gigabit network card at full speed, and two AthlonMP 2800+'s would still hold the aces over a single AthlonXP 3200+ in some situations... but not in gaming.