Which motherboard is best?

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dundeal

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Well I am planning on building a computer in a month or so and I am pretty new at this so I was just wondering which is the best motherboard that can support the new athlon dual cores? I looked at some reviews on the net and saw that the Athlon 64 x2 4400 was the best deal and so now i need to see which motherboard is best suited for that. I am planning to use this computer mostly for music and movies. No gaming. Any advice on this?
 
when you say music and movies, do you mean playing them? Or do you mean video editing?
If you dont plan on gaming or video editing why the heck are you spending so much on a computer? A much cheaper system will supply these requirements

Anyway it's your cash :) speaking of which whats the budget?
 
well this computer is gonna mainly be used for playing music, movies, web browsing, running many programs at once. My budget is about 1800$ for the whole computer set. I just want a computer that is ready tackle whatever task I put it up to and not hang or crash.
 
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MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum is a straightforward and kickass board that will suit you ... other boards (namely the DFI LanParty) are good too but require a bit of tweaking/effort
 
used for playing music, movies, web browsing, running many programs at once.
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$1800 is way too much money for what you are doing. What do you define as "running many programs?" I built a $500 PC and it can play DVDs, run my 3D animation program and surf the internet at the same time.

My suggestions,
since RAM is so cheap, get 1GB of RAM it will hold up to just about anything.
I don't recommend a specific processor since you will be doing minor things. A newer Pentium 4 will probably do pretty good at multi-tasking if you actually end up doing anything serious.
I know you won't be doing very intensive things but even a cheap graphics card will be better than integrated.
SATA hard drives will provide a slight boost in performance.
Since you have that much money, get a nice sound card and some 5.1 or even 7.1 speakers.
 
Asbolutely, you can probably get a system more tha able to handle things for the $800 bracket.
 
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