Ive been trying to do some online shopping for my new mobo and cpu and what not and this new technology is killen me...(i thought i was a computer geek) if u wanna see what my computer currently is check out the random shut offs or not at all!! THREAD i had up a few days ago but im looking at getting this... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3981671&csid=ITD&body=MAIN#productresources ....good? yes? no? i think its a good deal since its chip, board, and ram all for a decent price and it has to be better then what i have now. if i would get that (assuming its a good deal) what VIDEO card should i get? i do alot of limewire (i know i know) and general net surfing, and music, oh and movies that i download too...so i need a decent video card but i dont play games on it. Plz help! That system is fine. In fact almost any system you can buy now has enough cpu for 90% of consumers.

However, here is my opinion.

Currently AMD is playing a weak second banana to intel (sad too cause I'm an AMD fanboy usetobe).

If I were you I'd get an intel mobo like these: (I searched based on the features of the board you posted. Do you need 1394 firewire and spdif out?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory=280&Description=&Type=&N=2010200280+1070509908+107172277+1071728997&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&PropertyCodeValue=705%3A9908&PropertyCodeValue=717%3A28997&PropertyCodeValue=727%3A7546&PropertyCodeValue=727%3A10689&PropertyCodeValue=727%3A10630&PropertyCodeValue=749%3A7612&PropertyCodeValue=749%3A20786&PropertyCodeValue=752%3A11332&PropertyCodeValue=752%3A11331&PropertyCodeValue=752%3A11333&PropertyCodeValue=757%3A7618

Basically for around a hundred bucks you can get a P35 motherboard.

As for processor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072

Thats am E5200 45nm 2.5GHz 2M cache dual core processor for 90 bucks. I have a 45nm 2.533 GHz E7200 that runs completely stable at 3.7GHz. Although I don't need it to be that fast so I run it at 3.383 GHz.

I don't know if your up to the challenge of over CLOCKING but even at stock frequencies that E5200 will run CIRCLES around the AMD 5000+.

And finally for RAM: pick the cheapest decent named part. I've found little compelling reasons to put expensive low latency memory in a system, better to buy more memory and run slower. The percentage difference between 800 and 1066 is not going to be enough to warrant spending extra money.

Here's an OCZ pair thats 22 bucks after rebate:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227139

That's a little higher in price than you were looking at but has much more legs IMO because socket 775 isn't going away until next year. By then you'll be able to buy a new proc with four cores or FASTER clock rates and upgrade without changing your motherboard.

After that Nehalem (aka Core i7) hits and the whole game changes again.

Good luck. Feel free to ask lots of questions. And let us know what you decide to do.

Raydude