socket 939 motherboard?

nevski

nevski

nevski

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Hi

Can someone help me please? i'm looking for a socket 939 motherboard, really only intersted in Abit, Asus or DFI on a Nforce 4 chipset. I am a computer novice and am not an overclocker and do not intend on overclocking so please bear this in mind. I want a motherboard with the latest technology ie DDR 2 support, fast FSB, pci-e 16x, sata 2 (300), usb 2.0, large memory capacity support, amd 64 x2 support etc.

Please can someone give me some good advice on the best motherboard to purchase, bearing in mind the above?

I have searched through some of the threads in here but most are irrelevant to me as most motherboards recommended are aimed at the overclocker.

Thanks :)
 
thanks to all of you for your advice, really appreciate it!

just to keep you all on your toes, i realise now it is an am2 socket motherboard that i need, not a 939 socket, in order to support DDR2......D'oh....warned you i was a novice! Any suggestions???

can someone tell me why a lot of the motherboards nowadays don't include firewire back panel ports????? i know a lot of the boards have the headers but why not the ports on back panel anymore???? :confused:

I would like to stay with the nividia chipset, but theres so many different one's....can somebody explain the difference pls????? i've come across Nividia 6150/nf430? Nividia nforce 570 SLI? Nividia nforce 190/nforce 590 SLI MCP? Nividia MCP55-Ultra single chip? Could someone pls explain it all to me....my head hurts :(

i've got my eye on a few motherboards:

Asus m2n-sli deluxe
Asus m2npv-vm
Abit nf-m2nview

what do you all think of these????

If you aren't much of a gamer is it crucial to have SLI support on a motherboard? If i'm not much of a gamer, do I need 2x PCI-E x16 slots???

So many questions!!! :confused: :confused:

You guys have your work cut out with me you know!
 
thanks for the good advice Steve258!

Why do you say to avoid the Nividia 6150 chipset???

Do you know why a lot of the motherboards don't have firewire I/O ports on the back panels anymore???? I know some have the firewire headers on the board, but why not externally anymore????

Thanks :)
 
Thanks tetras & steve258, you've both been a really big help!

Has every motherboard with a nividia 6150 chipset got integrated graphics then??? I don't want integrated graphics, I will use a graphics card. My graphics card at the mo is AGP so i will have to buy a new one won't i because I want the latest motherboard, chip, PCI-E etc.

I was worrying about the firewire because I've just bought an Alesis Multimix 8 Firewire Mixer for home recording...I#ll be ok then as long as the mobo I buy has firewire headers.

As I'm not an overclocker, which cpu am I best to buy out of all the amd & intel dual processors??? My budget is around £130

Thanks again guys :)
 
thanks steve258!

it's either the amd 64x2 3800 or the intel c2d 6300...wasn't even considering intel before.....i seem to have been persuaded a little!! :D ;)
 
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