need help deciding on mobo/cpu

[komseh]

I'm going to be in the market for a new pc in about a month, but I haven't had the time to keep up with latest hardware trends. What's the best AMD motherboard/cpu combo to get right now?(considering price and performance. overclocking is not important.) Are the Athlon-64 cpu/chipsets worth the money?

Thanks for any help.

 

[niall]

Kom21? from WFA?

anyway, abit/asus boards are always solid. athlon64 is a good CPU to go with right now. whatever speed you can afford i suppose. I would go with an Abit KV8 personally, just cause i like their boards.

 

[komseh]

yeah thats me. what up niall. do you happen to know if the athlon64 chipsets work well in linux?

 

[specter554]

You can get an AK86-L and Athlon 64 3000+ for $304. I think that is a good deal. If you can wait, you might want to wait for nforce 250 mobos and socket 939.

 

[Carnival Forces]

Originally posted by komseh
yeah thats me. what up niall. do you happen to know if the athlon64 chipsets work well in linux?

well, Mandrake has an official release just for A64's, and i think pretty much every major distro has a 64-bit release, so i guess: yes.

 

[komseh]

Originally posted by specter554
You can get an AK86-L and Athlon 64 3000+ for $304. I think that is a good deal. If you can wait, you might want to wait for nforce 250 mobos and socket 939.

Will that be released before may by chance?

 

[specter554]

Nforce 250 will be out before May for sure. Socket 939 is set to be released sometime in May.