The Mother Board

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Ok, for a fast stable system I'd recommend the Intel D845PEBT2 (Blue Mountain Two). paired with at least a 2.5 ghz processor. The mobo will be about $140. It dosent have 8xagp (dosent matter for a desktop system), but it does support Hyperthreading if you want to get a higher end PC. The 533 FSB pro...

Whats your price limit and how soon would you like to upgrade? Right now a good mobo for those components is a Soyo P4X400 http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=159 its supports ddr 400, 8x agp, overlocking (1mhz increments), RAID, sound, etc. No HT'ing, but thats not a big deal. All in al...

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll just make do with the best buy comp. I know what you mean about them though. When I went there with my friend to browse it was impossible to get ahold of them and even then they weren't very helpful. But I'm sure the second im there w/ dad they'll hop to. The...

Porphyria is right. The 9700 has a theoretical bandwitch of 19.2GBps (pretty sure), but no game really uses up all that, DOOM 3 might, but untill then 4x is fine. Another thing I wanted to point out was this article from slashdot.. http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/19/1526221.shtml?tid=126 from gur...

CD's only burn 8X4X24. Not a big deal, I have some patience. The first thing I'd upgrade would be Video Card (know of any places I could sell the MX420?). I'm paying for the comp, but my dad insists I get a "name brand" computer. He thinks the evil "internet devils" will steal hi...

I was in best buy today and found this: http://www.bestbuy.com/Detail.asp?m=488&cat=490&scat=491&e=11204931 I'm pretty sure it has an Asus P4PE, the guy at the store thought it was an asus mobo, and the model name is FT5100-PE. Can anyone confirm/deny this, cause I couldn't find out for ...

in the end, how much you wanna spend?
is there a set amount you can set aside each month towards your comp?
do you wanna build it yourself?

do you plan on overclocking?