# Choosing a motherboard

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**Created:** [September 12, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/choosing-a-motherboard/162332 "2005-09-12T09:34:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/choosing-a-motherboard/162332/1 "2005-09-12T09:34:50Z")

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I’m _hopefully_ _hopefully_ fingers-crossed perhaps maybe if-my-luck-allows going to build a new rig, and I’ve got no idea about mobo’s.  
I’m hoping to have an Athlon 64 Venice-core socket 939 CPU, 1gb RAM, SATA HDD (mayyybe RAID, but prolly not), and a PCI-Express video card. I’ve been told nForce4 is the way to go for Athlon… and a friend recommended Abit… but, meh. I dunno…

To sum up, I need:

- Athlon S939
- nForce4?
- Firewire
- SATA
- PCIe
- LAN

Seems as though you can’t escape onboard sound these days, but I’ll be putting in a Creative card regardless. Not sure about RAM, either. DDR2 3200 seems to be the norm these days, and since I’m going for 1gb, I don’t want anything too expensive.

I really don’t want to spend more than AU$200 (that’s 200 Australian dollars) 😉

Any advice would be appreciated!  
Thanks in advance.