Socket AM2 Motherboards

Calling all PC bods!

Looking for a new motherboard and CPU and reckoning I will go down the AMD route again and their new AM2 socket. Looking to spend about £60-70 on the board and am looking for onboard VGA (only have an old AGP card and dont want to upgrade that yet - or rather my wallet doesn't!), the more USB ports the better, DDR2 compatible, as many expansion slots (PCI, PCI-e etc etc) as poss and cater for both IDE and SATA. Any ideas or recommendations?

Cheers boys and girls.

[SoulKiss]

Best bang for buck at the moment is Intel Core-Duo

Been a huge AMD fan for a while, but at the moment not necessarily the way to go.

I always likes the MSI boards for my older AMD machiens

DFI is the way to go for performance and build quality

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Best bang for buck at the moment is Intel Core-Duo

Been a huge AMD fan for a while, but at the moment not necessarily the way to go.

I always likes the MSI boards for my older AMD machiens

same here my next upgrade will be intel had amd now for 5 - 6 years
the new core -duo seem good value for your pennies

Save your money for something essential.

alcohol for example

HTH

try DABS as a starter - good place to look and compare

remember that you'll probably have to change your memory at the same time, unless it's compatible

Whenever I change CPU and motherboard I always have to get new memory modules

Probably best to get one that can cope with PCI-Express as that's the way all graphics cards seem to be going these days

Originally Posted by keithd

Save your money for something essential.

alcohol for example

HTH

Tee hee hee!

[northwind]

Originally Posted by M65

Calling all PC bods!

Looking for a new motherboard and CPU and reckoning I will go down the AMD route again and their new AM2 socket. Looking to spend about £60-70 on the board and am looking for onboard VGA (only have an old AGP card and dont want to upgrade that yet - or rather my wallet doesn't!), the more USB ports the better, DDR2 compatible, as many expansion slots (PCI, PCI-e etc etc) as poss and cater for both IDE and SATA. Any ideas or recommendations?

Yes. Don't buy an AMD just now, it makes no sense whatsoever unless you've got an eye to future upgrades, which tbh with your requirements you don't.

Originally Posted by northwind

Yes. Don't buy an AMD just now, it makes no sense whatsoever unless you've got an eye to future upgrades, which tbh with your requirements you don't.

Only probable future upgrades would be an extra 1Gb RAM, a new graphics card and then maybe up to a dual core CPU. Dont want anything too spec'd up - aimply have no need for it. Oh, and if Im feeling really flush, I might just swap over to a SATA HDD rather than IDE.