Buying a computer system/Mother board compatible

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Expert: - 11/22/2008


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HI good day... i would like to ask if you have an idea of what mother board will be compatible with a processor amd athlon 3000+ or amd athlon 3200+ model??
hope you can provide me with the best compatible motherboard for that processor...
thank you in advance...

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Assuming you can still find Socket A motherboards, the Abit AN7 and NF7-S were quite well regarded in their day, as well as a few nVidia based Gigabyte boards. I would suggest looking for nForce 2 or nForce 2 Ultra based motherboards firstly, VIA KT400/600 based boards secondly, and after that, find anything thats listed as compatable. Hopefully you can find something, however if this is for a new build (unless you're limited to AthlonXP for some reason), I would suggest moving to a newer platform (even Pentium 4 on LGA 775 or Athlon64 on Socket 939).

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