Decent Upper End Mobo/Cpu/Ram Recomendation

[malor]

I'm going to build a system soon. I've been outta the loop for a little while but i want to know waht the best mobo/cpu/ram combo would be for gaming/music production, and basicly performance tasks. It would also help if you could suggest a video card that would work great with this bundle. I'm trying to avoid the Asus SLI board, but please, draw from your experiance. Thanks guys.

 

[Seated]

Hi. I'm in the process of building a system for audio editing and storage. After lots of research, I'll tell you what I'm doing and see if it helps.

After spending 3 weeks with the ASUS A8N SLI Premium motherboard, I sent it back. Nice guys, but poor support (incorrect info given to me), and a problematic board. (I'll spare you the details unless you want them.) So I instead got a MSI K8N Platinum board. It has all the stuff but no SLI, which I don't need. It has have PCI x# slots, so that's fine with me. And I saved a few dollars with this board. ($130)

AMD X2 3800+ processor. ($320 at the time).

2 sticks of 512MB (1 GIG total) Corsair TWINX ram ($100).

I'm going to be hooking up 2 WD740G drives in RAID 1 for the OS & programs drive, and then 4 WD3200 drives in a RAID 0+1 setup for the audio editing and storage.

I don't need strong video, so got Saphire X500 graphics card.

I trust this helps. Ask questions if you have them.

 

[malor]

Yeah, a co worker of mine had extensive problems with the A8N, I think I'll veer away from that then, MAXPC seems to like it simply because it's asus's first SLI board. Dummies. THanks for the specs, I think I'll up the ante on graphics and ram, otherwise the setup sounded nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

[kirbyrj]

Here's my current ranking of s939 boards I've actually used.

1. DFI NF4 Ultra-D
2. Abit AN8-SLI
3. Chaintech VNF4/Ultra
4. ASRock 939Dual SATA2
5. MSI Neo4 Plat SLI (early adopter)
6. Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe

That's from my personal experience. Others will disagree .