Asus Socket 775 Recommendations?

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Does anyone have any recommendations for an Asus Socket 775 ATX mobo?

I am trying to put together a computer for a friend and I was just curious
to see
if some people have a preference for a certain board.

The computer will be used quite a bit for gaming, but nothing too fancy.
1GB RAM and a CPU somewhere between 2.6-3.0.

While we're on the subject, if someone recommends a certain CPU for the
board
please post that as well.

Thank you..
 
J said:
Does anyone have any recommendations for an Asus Socket 775 ATX mobo?
I am trying to put together a computer for a friend and I was just curious
to see> if some people have a preference for a certain board.
1GB RAM and a CPU somewhere between 2.6-3.0.
board
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Have you considered an AMD Athlon 64 CPU? They run as fast or faster
(especially
for gaming) than equivalent Intel P4s, run cooler, use more upgradeable
motherboards,
etc. We are a dealer and are rarely sell any P4s right now because of that.

Check out a buyer's guide::
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2426

For a Sockey 939 Athlon 64 motherboard, I recommend either an ASUS A8N-E
or A8N-SLI series board.
 
"J" said:
Does anyone have any recommendations for an Asus Socket 775 ATX mobo?

I am trying to put together a computer for a friend and I was just curious
to see
if some people have a preference for a certain board.

The computer will be used quite a bit for gaming, but nothing too fancy.
1GB RAM and a CPU somewhere between 2.6-3.0.

While we're on the subject, if someone recommends a certain CPU for the
board
please post that as well.
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I go back and forth between ASUS and Intel boards for workstation class
machines, I'm currently building a 775 system based on the Intel
D915GEVL LGA775 board (and at $115 it's easy on the budget).

If you want to play games, the cache size (diff between 1m and 2m won't
mean much), but you want as fast a FSB as you can get. Don't slack out
on the RAM either, see if you can get CL-2 RAM, and the video card can
make or break a gaming machine, get something with 256MB RAM on it, and
something that's very fast.
 
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