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Im building two machines for a friend who wants gaming systems for himself and his son.
I am leaning towards an Athlon 64 4200 Dual Core 2.2GHz 512kb L2 cache AM2, 2gb of compatible ram for each machine (probably the cheapest going), an X1800 of some variety and haven not decided on disks yet.
The problem I have is that I'm stuck when looking at motherboards - the last time I bought a full size motherboard it was the NF7s that was king and everyone including myself was able to reccomend it. Primary needs now are onboard sound and lan, decent graphics compatability - sli might be nice but not essential as I would rather spend his money on one decent graphics card - and finally something that is stable. He will not be overclocking and knows little about hardware so the more stable the board is the less hasstle for me
So whats the board of choice these days for all the AMD AM2 users out there?
I am leaning towards an Athlon 64 4200 Dual Core 2.2GHz 512kb L2 cache AM2, 2gb of compatible ram for each machine (probably the cheapest going), an X1800 of some variety and haven not decided on disks yet.
The problem I have is that I'm stuck when looking at motherboards - the last time I bought a full size motherboard it was the NF7s that was king and everyone including myself was able to reccomend it. Primary needs now are onboard sound and lan, decent graphics compatability - sli might be nice but not essential as I would rather spend his money on one decent graphics card - and finally something that is stable. He will not be overclocking and knows little about hardware so the more stable the board is the less hasstle for me
So whats the board of choice these days for all the AMD AM2 users out there?