antholon 64 motherboard

[rickytim]

hey guys
I am thinking about making a new system and instaling a antholon 64 socket 754. I will be useing this pc to game, watching dvd's and maybe some other things but mostly gaming. I am wondering what brand of motherboard for the antholon 64 would you recomend? My favoirt boards are gigabyte so if you have heard any good new about there 64 board's please tell me. But i am open you your suggestions or comments and what you thing would be the best one for me. also what cpu fan would you recomend? Also are what are the ups and downs between the the anhtlon socket A and the 64 754 bot at 3.2ghz.?

Thanks for the help
Rick

[rickytim]

any one know any thing about these boards? Please help me out.

[poopeyhed2]

I like Gigabyte boards myself, but after recently picking up the GA-7N400-Pro2, the GigaRaid feature sucks. I'll have to reconsider Gigabyte the next time they pull something off like this. I personally now love Abit boards, especially the Max3 feature(s), awesome board.

[jmichna]

I'm not familiar with Athlon-64 mobos, but I bet if you did a search for AMD 64 review articles, you'd see which mobos were used in the reviews. I don't think there are very many different ones available yet, but the Asus SK8N (nForce3 Pro) and Gigabyte's K8NNXP-940 get mentioned in some FX-51 reviews.

Asus' K8V Deluxe, MSI's K8T Neo (VIA K8T800) and Shuttle's AN50R (nForce3 150) get mentioned in some AMD-64 reviews.

Curious why you are set on an Athlon-64, socket 754, and don't mention any interest in the FX-51, socket 940?