I’ve mentioned here that my desktop is kaput. The motherboard gave up on me. I bought it January 2006 (hardware doesn’t last as long as they used to). It’s a socket 939 AsRock. AsRock is the low-end version of Asus. I like Asus but being impatient and going with 939 was a bad move because socket 940 (AM2) came out the next quarter and prices nosedived to less than half.

Now AMD is phasing out the 939 line and I tried to buy a replacement last week but the store wouldn’t sell it to me without the bundled processor. And that board was an ECS. I hate ECS. I experienced buying three boards by them (K7-VTA3 series) years ago and they all failed.

It’s a bad year for AMD and a very good one for Intel. I think now is the good time to move back to Intel. There’s been a lot of good reviews on Core 2 Duo and 45nm fabrication is a major breakthrough. A lot of analysts say that it will take a couple more months for AMD to switch out of 65nm.

The last Intel processor that went in my hands was an Intel 233MHz. I was an AMD fanboy since I left Intel’s side (where else would one go anyway?).

Can anyone recommend a decent board? I don’t overclock but I want to keep my options open for new technologies and further upgrades. I don’t have SATA drives yet but it should be supported. Linux support should be strong too.

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