[pinlos]

I want to buy a athlon venice 3200+ plus a mobo, case and psu, but i am having trouble picking a good mobo. My price range is going from 400-500 dollars. Can anyone help me?

[WorldIndustries]

Would you be overclocking?

[pinlos]

i dont know how to overclock, but my friend told me that when you overclock you burn out your parts. I dont know how that works

[Snake-Eyes]

You can burn out your parts, but not from the first time you overclock. Unless you set it to ungodly high speeds.

[Therock]

And even then, it just won't boot up. If you OC, don't touch the voltage at first, see how far can you get w/o touching it(stable of course).

[IF06]

overclocking sounds so tempting i just don't think I can go higher any more without installing a better cooling system and finding out how much my mobo can take

[Ethereal_Dragon]

Wow... this got way offtopic...

Anyways, here is what you requested.....

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ - $99

Mobo - DFI RS482 INFINITY - $88 - (onboard LAN, sound, VGA & DVI)

Case - Antec Minuet 300 - $77 - (with PSU)

You didn't mention these, but I put them in here anyways...

Memory - CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR400 - $126

Optical - LITE-ON Black DVD+/-RW - $40

Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 - $66


With everything I linked, it is $496 before shipping... It would be just overbudget, so you could go with 512MB ram instead of 1 Gig, or a smaller HDD... Also, the motherboard has onboard video, and a PCI Express x16 slot if you plan to upgrade to better graphics in the future.