Choosing a mother board

[importracer]

Hi,
I'm new to this site and I am researching info picking a new mother board to build a new system. My kids play games on the computer. I also play some games also. I've started looking around and am having trouble picking out one. Any help would be appericated. Plus I am not looking spend over 100 dollars.

 

[nirvanarule34]

You havnt indicated what processor your using for this build.
If your going pentium then im lost, however, AMD i recommend ASUS motherboards over all else
One of the most stable systems i build has an asus A7v8x-x Motherbaord and an AMD 2500+ Barton

 

[1stITMAN]

Best is to surf Review sites. The motherboard is the main part of the system!
You got to think ahead, When you upgrade, Memory slots,
I would personally got for a high end one ewither Abit or Asus.

http://www.pcguide.com/art/mb.htm

http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-38-26C05B0-39DF5BED-prod2

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/

Zaheer Ahmed Iqbal
I.T Systems Support Engineer
Bsc. (Hons).

 

[paparazi]

Do you intend to use a seperate graphics card?? for gaming.
Either way on a budget I would go with an AMD XP CPU, with a motherboard using the Nforce2 400 chipset, either one with integrated graphics (equivelent to an Nvidia Geforce 4 MX440) and capable of playing most run of the mill games or the straight Nforce2 400 chipset motherboard with a seperate graphics card (better if you are semi serious about good gaming quality and speed)
Asus A7N8X-X
Gigabyte GA-7N400pro2
Abit NF7S
MSI K7N Delta-L
Or the integrated graphics versions from the above manufactures.
Also look at: Soltek, Soyo, DFI,
Martin

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