AMD 64 questions

Hi

I'm upgrading my PC.

1 a) What are decent brands of motherboard for Athlon 64?

1 b) Are Gigabyte and MSI still the good ones? Any other recommend-me-dos?

2 ) Which chipset is better out of nforce3 and via/sis?

3 ) Also noticed that there seem to be two "workstation" editions of the
Athlon 64 cpu - Socket 754 & Socket 939 - what are the differences?

4 ) The motherboards I have looked at all seem to support a max of DDR400,
are there any AMD 64 boards circa £100 that support DDR500 or the new
PC2-3200/4200/5300 memory available from www.crucial.com?

Thats all for now, cheers.

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"--Tom--" <--Tom-- RemoveThis @nospamOK.co.yk> wrote in message
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 > Hi
 >
 > I'm upgrading my PC.
 >
 > 1 a) What are decent brands of motherboard for Athlon 64?
 >
 > 1 b) Are Gigabyte and MSI still the good ones? Any other recommend-me-dos?
 >
 > 2 ) Which chipset is better out of nforce3 and via/sis?
 >
 > 3 ) Also noticed that there seem to be two "workstation" editions of the
 > Athlon 64 cpu - Socket 754 & Socket 939 - what are the differences?
 >
 > 4 ) The motherboards I have looked at all seem to support a max of
DDR400,
 > are there any AMD 64 boards circa £100 that support DDR500 or the new
<font color=purple> > PC2-3200/4200/5300 memory available from <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.crucial.com?</font" target="_blank">www.crucial.com?</font</a>>
 >
 > Thats all for now, cheers.
 >
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