🚀 go-pugleaf

Please forgive my crosspost.  I felt it was relevent to all listed.


It’s time to upgrade the mobo on my PC at the house.  It’s currently a 
SOYO K7VTA-B / 999 mHz.

My primary uses for the machine are video editing, high end games and 
general office stuff.

I figure I’ll get the mobo, cpu and memory.  I’d like to have it fit my 
existing ATX tower.  The mobo needs to have several open PCI slots and 
an AGP slot for the video card.

With those uses in mind, what board would you folks recommend?  I think 
I want to go with an INTEL board this time.  The SOYO was ok but it was 
quirky and it needed it’s own drivers installed.  PCI briges and AGP 
bridges and the like.

Would an INTEL mobo be ok for my uses?  What is the current favorite
CPU chip form factor?  SocketA or whatever?  Best memory and bus speeds?

I did (and will do) googles on this but that just shows a bunch of 
vendors, not really the type of info I need at this point.

What do you think of a bare bones Dell or Gateway that I can expand to 
my specs?

Thanks folks.

W