buying new (future proof) motherboard (suggestion, help)

[natbeys]

buying new motherboard (suggestion, help).

[Mickwish]

My only suggestion is forget about the "future proof" part.

It's likely AMD will be changing their pinout soon away from Socket A, and there is no telling what Intel will do with pins.

So, pick your current processor family and then choose a chipset, and from that narrow it down to a few mobos.

Cheers
Mick

[f1oored]

You are talking about computers Nothing is future proof. I am probably going to order an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe tomorrow. It has most of the features I'm looking for and is supposed to be a good overclocker.

I like Asus boards personally but that's just me, some people hate them with a passion. It all depends on what you want to do with it. There is a good chance that ATX boards are about to go by the wayside, so I guess any ATX you buy is going to be outdated soon.

[HeadBand]

yes there are so much new things coming out over the next few months there most of these things havent had an advancement in years

intel is going to roll out the scoket T pretty soon and the prescotts will start to come with those when they come out

then the tejas will use those alsobut its doubtfull that these boards will suport the voltage or fsb of the tejas

but these new boards will also have pci ex and ddr2 so i would wait and get that so when you go to upgrade to a tejas you dont NEED a completley new vid card, and ram

sata will also be standard on these boards...i have heard the will have only 1 ide channel so i would get sata hard drives

this is just my suggestion but it all will depend on your budget and how quick you need things

[natbeys]

just for now.. i need a motherboard that supports multiple raid(dont know about this one, please give info about this.. as far as i know.. this is for installing harddrives on/in the cabinet/motherboard) , 4gb of ddrram (500mhz), intel pentuim 4 3.6+ / amd 64 fx (please help in buying these cpus, which is the best & fastest?), 3+pci slots, 1 8X agp slot, 4+ usb. i think i have to change title to "help buying in a new computer"!

[f1oored]

If you are going to dump that much money I would wait a while until some of the new mobo come out. If you build now you are going to missout on a lot of cool stuff that is supposed to come out in 2004.

If you need a reason to wait, check out this article

What are your system specs right now. Maybe there is something we can suggest to tide you over for a while until you want to buy a whole new system. If you are looking for a future proof computer, now is really the wrong time to buy (if there is ever a right time).

[ablang]

I had a friend who asked me for advice and said he wanted a computer that he could use for about 10 years. I laughed a bit and told him that computer doesn't exist.

[Dax_Brandy]

hhmm, if you want futureproof boards, i suggest you buy those that complies with the 64 bit processors.. imo.

[Slowhand]

Hold on a second. You can futureproof a computer! First you get a flux capacitor then .......

[vass0922]

natbeys, are you looking to build a server?
Server mobo's are typically different than PC, so you'll need to specify to get the right types of mobo... for instance I'd assume you'd also desire SCSI over IDE.

There's certainly no need for 4 GB DDR for a PC.

not to mention if you're going to get a board that supports 4GB of RAM... but you only want one processor!?