After looking at the specifications on different brands of boards the conclusion of MSI being the brand looked into if not going with another Asus model on a new build. When looking at Abit, DFI, Gigabyte, and several others the thing that keeps standing out is Asus and MSI always seeming to be one step ahead of the other makes. While Asus and MSI were seeing 400mhz fsbs the others were still 333mhz. On newer models Asus and MSI often see 3 instead of 2 pci slots on their PCI-Express model boards. You should see a good board there. I preferred a model with the nForce 4 chipset however.
The 2gb of Kingston Value Ram have worked here quite well. Just be sure the Antec model supply has the 24/4pin connector. When a board quit lately I ran into that with the replacement. The TP II 430w model had 20/4 not 24/4! Had to run out and buy locally there.
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