Selecting a board from the huge range of AMD motherboards out there is surely a daunting task. It’s all too easy to choose an incompatible or badly designed motherboard that will cause slowdowns or system failure when you set up your new PC.

The ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe is an all latest AMD 64-bit Socket 939 platform which provide leading performance with multimedia applications. With SLI PCI express graphics, Serial ATA RAID, dual Ethernet, 6-channel audio, IEEE 1394, USB2.0.

The MSI K7N2G-ILSR presents a combination of performance and suppleness at a reasonable price. all you need is build in: AGP 8X, Serial ATA RAID, dual Ethernet, 6-channel audio, IEEE 1394, USB2.0 and the nForce2 integrated graphics processor.

The ABIT NF7-S2 is intended with the overclocked in mind. Standard material is all there AGP 8x, dual-channel DDR, Serial ATA, 6 channel audio with Dolby Digital 5.1, USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394. Do get note that you buy a board that is edition 1.2. Overclocking was touted to be problem in previous versions.

The Gigabyte GA-K8U stands for great value for money. Run an AMD Athlon 64 processor with DDR400 memory, SATA hard drive, AGP 8X video, built-in audio sound and high speed USB 2.0 support.