Hello
Wait a bit, buying now will be silly as all boards and CPUs are still over priced due to supply problems (because of all the damn hype around conroe).
New here...i'm gonna jump in with both feet...
....I agree completely. I've also noticed that some of the motherboards have removed support of the low end conroe. It is starting to remind me of the fiasco when the 800 series came out and all of the sudden 820s weren't supported in some boards. The same thing happened with the 900 series and the 920. I don't have any doubt that those same troubles will happen with the conroe and motherboards.
There are all kinds of MFGs racing to put conroe support on motherboards...Asrock even has a 945g chipset board that supposedly supports it now.
IMO .....wait for the nForce 590 intel chipset to stabilize. According to Maximum PC, they got a beta board from nvidia and it just blew them away.
I went through a 915g and 945g intel motheboard during the pentium 4 and pentium D frenzy. Neither board was completely stable or reliable so I switched to nforce4.
My current setup has a little old 520J on the nfoce4 chipset overclocked up to 1000FSB (3.5ghz). Completely stable. I waited until the chipset had been out for about 6 months before buying and I would suggest the same for conroe.
Just my opinion.