ASUS A8N-E is another choice for you.

http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=171&model=455&modelmenu=1

Personally, I think you'll get more bandwidth w/ the intel stuff. Not knocking the AMD club, but if you were going top notch, then the intel dual-core processors & a mobo to support it would be the ones to look at. I know I did'nt quite respond to your question in general, but I've seen some amazing things (as in performance) being utilized by some of these mobo manufacturers. I'm sure both have there benefits.

dabmeister music wrote: Personally, I think you'll get more bandwidth w/ the intel stuff. Not knocking the AMD club, but if you were going top notch, then the intel dual-core processors & a mobo to support it would be the ones to look at. I know I did'nt quite respond to your question in general, but I've seen some amazing things (as in performance) being utilized by some of these mobo manufacturers. I'm sure both have there benefits.

Hello there!

there is no AMD club, what we have is lots of performance data running audio benchmarks that show that no Intel dual core processor can come close to an AMD 4400+ or 4800+. That may change in the future but today the AMD X2 processor is the performance KING! with much better memory bandwidth.

My best,

Guy Cefalu
Sonica Audio Labs

Hey Sonica, I did'nt mean to step on any feet. But from a cost comparitive, the AMD processors are priced just as much (if not equal to) as a mortgage payment. So much for that... I think I'll stick to the budget branded stuff or catch it later down the line.

Oh also,
should I get a motherboard WITHOUT PCI-E?

thanks