PC Help: Is this a good motherboard?

[TerryMorgan 10+ year member]

Check this out: http://www.pc-infinity.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=MB-M55SLI4&Store_Code=P

Apparently a "GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2/ nForce4 SLI/ DDR2/ SATA2/ ATX Motherboard"

It seems to be a good mobo from what I can see; I'm particularly looking for 4 slots for memory, and SLI capability.

I don't know jack sh!t about motherboards. I know about everything else. PC specs will be as follows:

Athlon 64 x2 6400+

4GB 800Mhz DDR2 6400 RAM

GeForce 8800GTS or GTX (Still deciding...)

This is the list I have to choose from. I'm building it from a website called PC-Infinity.com. (No, I don't want to build it myself... I'm lazy. Plus, like that, mistakes happen. Lol.) Anything in this list that is better?

Infinity K8M890M-M Socket AM2/ K8M890/ DDR2/ SATA/ A&V&L/ MATX

Infinity K8M890M-M Socket AM2/ K8M890/ DDR2/w/PCI-E slot

Abit AN-M2 Geforce 7025/ DDR2-800/ nView/ A&V&GbE/ MATX

Abit AN52 nForce 520/ DDR2/ SATA2/ RAID/ A&GbE/ ATX

Abit AN9 32X SPP190/ DDR2/ IEEE1394/ ATX

Abit KN9 SLI /nForce 570 SLI/DDR2/SATA2/A&2GbE/ATX

ASRock ALIVENF5-ESATA2+ nForce 520/ DDR2/ eSATA/ A&GbE/

ASRock ALiveNF6G-VSTA GeForce 6100/ DDR2/ A&V&L/ MATX

Asus M2N32 WS Professional nForce 590 SLI/DDR2/SLI/PCIX/A&2GbE/ATX

Asus M2N-MX SE GeForce6100/ SATA2/ RAID/ A&V&L/ MATX

Asus M2A-VM HDMI AMD 690G/ HDMI/ A&V&GbE/ MATX

Asus M2N-X nForce 520/ DDR2/ SATA2/ RAID/ A&L/ ATX

Asus M2N-E SLI nForce 500 SLI/ DDR2/ SATA2/ IEEE1394/ A&GbE/ ATX

Asus M2N32-SLI Pr.Vista Edition nForce 590 SLI/ DDR2-800/ eSATA/ A&2GbE/ ATX

Asus M2V-MX VIA K8M890/ DDR2/ PCIE/ A&V&L/ MATX

Asus M2NBP-VM CSM Quadro NVS 210S/ DDR2/ SATA2/ A&V&GbE

Asus M2N nForce 430/ DDR2/ PCI-E/ A&GbE/ ATX

Asus M2A-VM AMD 690G/ DDR2/ SATA2/ DVI-D/ A&V&GbE/ MATX

Asus M2N-E nForce 570 Ultra/ DDR2/ SATA2/ A&GbE/ ATX

Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe nForce 570 SLI/ DDR2-800/ eSATA/ A&2GbE/ ATX

Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe/nforce 590 SLI/Wifi/ATX

Asus CROSSHAIR /nForce 590 SLI/DDR2/LED/A&2GbE/RoHS/ATX

ECS K8M890M-M K8M890/ DDR2/ SATA/ A&V&L/ MATX

ECS AMD690GM-M2 (V1.0A) AMD 690G/ DDR2-800/ A&V&GbE/ MATX

Asus ECS NFORCE6M-A Socket AM2/ nForce 520LE/ DDR2/A&GbE/ ATX

GIGABYTE GA-MA69G-S3H AMD 690G/ DDR2-800/ RAID/ A&V&GbE/ ATX

GIGABYTE GA-MA69VM-S2 AMD 690V/ DDR2-800/ A&V&GbE/ MATX

GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 GeForce 6100/ DDR2/ A&V&GbE/ ATX

GIGABYTE GA-M61SME-S2 GeForce 6100/ DDR2/ A&V&L/ MATX

GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 nForce 570-SLI/ DDR2/ SATA2/ A&L/ ATX

GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 nForce4 SLI/ DDR2/ SATA2/ ATX

GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AMD 690G/ DDR2-800/ RAID/ A&V&GbE/ MATX

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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Bad time of year, wait a few months, lots of new stuff comming out.

 

[TerryMorgan 10+ year member]

It's not a bad board, but I'd probably take an nForce 570 or 590 chipset motherboard if I were getting AMD.
Of course, I would probably advise getting an Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad if you're going to run a gaming rig or wait for the AMD Phenom CPUs to come out later this month if you really want to stick w/ AMD.

Also, the GeForce 8800 GT is faster than the 8800 GTS and is also cheaper. Just an //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

What's wrong with running an AMD X2 6400+? It's a huge improvement over my current Athlon XP 3000+, lol. I'm not an avid gamer, although I do play a few games, I won't be playing Crysis or anything insanely demanding like that.

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

What's wrong with running an AMD X2 6400+? It's a huge improvement over my current Athlon XP 3000+, lol. I'm not an avid gamer, although I do play a few games,

From the looks of the benches ive read, it seems intel is the way to go in this gen of hardware. but if its cheap and you dont do much gaming, you are good to go. I would rather be a little more "future proof"

I won't be playing Crysis or anything insanely demanding like that.

oh but you will.

 

[TerryMorgan 10+ year member]

From the looks of the benches ive read, it seems intel is the way to go in this gen of hardware. but if its cheap and you dont do much gaming, you are good to go. I would rather be a little more "future proof"


oh but you will.

I don't blame you, the problem is that I probably won't be able to afford the next generation of CPUs that will be coming out. I'm pretty sure I should be good for a few years with the X2 6400+, I did fine with the XP 3000+ until now, and I've had that ish for 3 years now.

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

It's not a bad board, but I'd probably take an nForce 570 or 590 chipset motherboard if I were getting AMD.
Of course, I would probably advise getting an Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad if you're going to run a gaming rig or wait for the AMD Phenom CPUs to come out later this month if you really want to stick w/ AMD.

Also, the GeForce 8800 GT is faster than the 8800 GTS and is also cheaper. Just an //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

w00t for phenoms! That ought to drop the dual core prices a bit.

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

Only things that are really new are the new Nvidia and ATI GPUs and the AMD Phenoms. The new Intel chips won't offer much improvement other than more cache, a slightly higher IPC rate, and greater overclocking potential. Hardly worth waiting 3 months for, IMO.

12mb is pretty nice though lol.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

w00t for phenoms! That ought to drop the dual core prices a bit.

Except from early benchmarks the Core 2s are still faster.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

what he said, and dont forget "black friday" is just around the corner

although cpus arent high on the list for discounts there may be some great deals on cpu/mobo combos later this month

frys.com??