Motherboards

[imchief]

I am narrowing down to what chipset for the MB to get.  I am going to get an NF4 board with a veinus core CPU.  However, I was looking at ASUS A8N-E MB for around $125 and found a Chaintec VNF4 MB with the same physical specs (i.e. slots capacity) for $85.  The ASUS board seems to be for overclocking and tweeking, which I probably won't do, but is it a more stable board and better performer since it is considerably more expensive?

[GunnerMan]

ASUS is known for their quality and not really as an overclockers board, but it will alow overclocking and will overclock you just wont be able to push it over the edge like some boards. The ASUS may use better parts also. I would probably go ASUS, ill check it out here because im short on time

[Dan]

Yes, what GunnerMan said about ASUS's is very true - nice stable boards that tweak 'ok'. You might want to check out the range of AMD supported mobo brands here.  I support DFI LanParty - I don't find it very stable, but its loaded with nice geeky tweeky features!
Dan

Edit: If overlocking isn't a priority then you might want to consider getting a San Diego core - they don't OC as well becasue of a 1mb L2 cache, but will beat a Venice in games for the same reason.  ;)

[GA_Pilot]

I am looking into getting a new mobo and power supply for my computer too. It is a Dell, but when I am finished with it, it will be the Dell case only.....

I would like to use the CPU that I already have, which is a 2.6MHz P4.. I have heard Asus mobo's are really good...Any thoughts or suggestions  ???

[Stormtropper]

I have a ABIT AV8, you should look into it, its the OCer's heaven!