Thanks for all your help on this guys and gals.
I have decided to splurge a little bit more and get a 3500+ winnie core chip.....ahhh, too tempting by far.
Am currently debating eithe the gigabyte mentioned earlier (see
here or one of these two: Asus A8V or the Abit AV8.
Just can't decide as I have an nVidia card which reputedly runs nice off of the nforce chipset, or to go with VIA. Al three are about the same price wherever I look, so choices choices!
I may be OC'ing a bit, but only once I've undertaken some Water Cooling which is a few months away. Basicaly speaking, the system (well CPU and mem) will be left stock for a while, then OC'd at a later date, so I want bang for my buck, with potential later on......I dunno