Good motherboard for dual core 64?

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Any recommendations for a good,dependable motherboard for a dual core 4400
Athlon 64?Must have PCI-E,but I've decided against a SLI board,from all the
problems I've heard of,sounds like they haven't worked out all the bugs.And
I'm not into overclocking,so that's not a factor.
 
Any recommendations for a good,dependable motherboard for a dual core 4400
Athlon 64?Must have PCI-E,but I've decided against a SLI board,from all the
problems I've heard of,sounds like they haven't worked out all the bugs.And
I'm not into overclocking,so that's not a factor.
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I've ordered an MSI K8N Neo4 with a 4400+, don't have it yet so I can't
vouch for it first hand. However electrically the dual cores and single
cores are essentially identical and the Neo4 is known to work very well
with the existing single core A64s. The BIOS of the Neo4 has been updated
for X2s as have the BIOSes of all of the major NForce4 boards.
 
Any recommendations for a good,dependable motherboard for a dual core 4400
Athlon 64?Must have PCI-E,but I've decided against a SLI board,from all the
problems I've heard of,sounds like they haven't worked out all the bugs.And
I'm not into overclocking,so that's not a factor.
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I got my 4400+ system. Everything is working fine with Fedora Core 3.
However it turns out that there is a design defect on the MSI K8N Neo4
that limits the board to 3.5G of RAM. From their website,

Due to the South Bridge resource deployment, the system density will only
be detected up to 3+ GB (not full 4GB) when each DIMM is installed with an
1GB memory module

Don't know if the same issue exists with other motherboard makers. Does
any one else have a Nforce4 board with 4G of RAM, can you see all of it?
 
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