pc buildin

[nillviod]

Well.. I took a week off from work to piece together my computer and my week off is about to end. I've been struggling on picking a motherboard for the past 4 days. All I do all day is search for information about various mobos on the internet and I've found jack. Learned a lot, but I haven't found anything decisive about what mobo I should pick.

Anyways. Here's my setup so far:
-420W Thermaltake Case
-ATI Tech Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition 256MB Graphics Card
-Plextor Black 52x32x52 CD-RW Drive
-NEC 1.44MB Black Internal Floppy Drive
-Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM SATA Hard Drive
-Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 184 Pin 512 MB Registered DDR PC-3200 w/ Platinum - Silver Heat Spreader
-ASUS "SK8N" NForce3 Pro150 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 940 CPU
-AMD Athlon 64 FX-53, 940-pins processor
-Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PCI Sound Card (7.1 channels)


Now here is my problem: THE MOTHERBOARD.

I can't decide if I should get a socket 939 mobo with the via chipset or a socket 940 with the nforce chipset. I've heard that the nforce is a better chipset for gaming but the 940 sockets are phasing out. Do you guys think I should get the ASUS SK8N w/ the 940 pins or go for a 939 socket mobo (probably the ASUS A8V Deluxe or the 939 from msi)

My primary purpose is gaming. I don't care about much of anything else as long as it performs well while gaming. I could really use some help I'm really frustrated here and having an incredibley difficult time deciding. Thanks.

-Aaron

 

[endyen]

Bad news, that nforce chipset isn't the good one. If I had to get an FX board right now, I would look at the Gigabyte board and the msi board, that use the nforce3 250 ultra chipset. Asus will bring out one, as soon as they can work out some bugs.

 

[Worf101]

Carefull, you CANNOT mix a 940 pin AMD chip with a 939 board, you'll have one pin too many on the chip. It will not fit. If you have the chip already you'll have to get a 940 pin board and REGISTERED DDR RAM or sell the chip and get the slightly more expensive 939 chip.

Sorry..

Da Worfster

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