Mid level gaming pc

[Jun aka Pekto]

Yeah Gigabyte is a proper motherboard. Better than Asus even.

Another one was Abit, too bad the company went under.

Abit also let me down. That was back in the Athlon XP/Via KT266a days.

It's a little embarrassing when my wife's pc (has the older and slower ASUS Athlon XP motherboard based on the AMD760/761 chipset) outlasted the newer Via KT266a motherboards and the MSI board of my X2 4200+. It's over 8 years old now and have gone through W2k, XP, and now, Vista Basic.

I had 3 Athlon XP 1700+ pc's. One has the AMD760 board, one had a Soyo Dragon Plus, and the last one had an Abit board. The last two croaked within 3 years. I was tempted to go Intel once more. But, the Athlon 64 X2 dualcores kept me interested in AMD.

I'll stick with AMD for now. I figure the Phenom II X3 would be the sweet spot for multicore processing. I can always unlock the 4th core if I decide to overclock. I didn't realize the Phenom II X3 has 4 cores with one core (the 4th) turned off.