Help with mobo selection

[widget2003]

hey all im looking to upgrade my Athlon XP/AGP video card to Athlon 64 (939 pin) and a SLI graphics card system, and im just after a few motherboard suggestions as we only have 3-4 to choose from right now in Australia mainly ASUS boards. im not after the best board with every feature in the world just after a good priced and good product with or with out Sata Raid, although they pretty much all have that now dont they? and Dual channel DDR-2 would be nice but not a must as im not so sure they are very established yet are they?

dont need sound or firewire or a million USB ports :p

if you would like any other info just ask oh and Gigabit LAN would be very handy aswell, thanx

[RockNRoll]

Don't need sound?!?!?:eek:

How is that so?:eek: :eek:

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Originally posted by RockNRoll
Don't need sound?!?!?:eek:

How is that so?:eek: :eek:

He's probably already got a decent PCI sound card

--Jakk:t

[RockNRoll]

I eh... knew that.

[Crashman]

DFI has a GREAT SLI board for you, read the recent review at Anandtech.

DDR2 isn't anything to be concerned about yet, the slower latency thus far has been a bigger factor that its higher frequency, and AMD has no near-future plan to support it.

[widget2003]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
He's probably already got a decent PCI sound card

--Jakk:t

yep sorry should have said dont need to worry finding a board with 8 channel sound onboard or anything

[widget2003]

Originally posted by Crashman
DFI has a GREAT SLI board for you, read the recent review at Anandtech.

DDR2 isn't anything to be concerned about yet, the slower latency thus far has been a bigger factor that its higher frequency, and AMD has no near-future plan to support it.

sweet ill go have a look now :t thanks

[widget2003]

mmm no serial ports to be seen lol. oh well dont need them anyways!!

looks like ill need a new power supply aswell that motherboard power connector looks bigger then normal, 24 pins.

[RockNRoll]

Yep you might need a new ATX PSU, depending on your current system though. What type of system do you already have?

Good PSU's are Thermaltake, Enermax, and Antec. There are others I think but I can't remember them all.

[widget2003]

AthlonXP 2400+
Gigabyte GA-7N400 mobo
256x2 Corsair XMS
GeXcube 9600XT Xtreme
Xsonic 450 watt power supply (pretty much generic)

might not need a new PSU just the main connector on the DFI Lanparty mobo look to be slightly larger, im probably wrong though