My college son's old computer is a AMD Athalon 64 3000+ single core computer. I want to build him a moderately priced basic computer. I want to use a Athalon 64 X2 6000+ processor. I would like your recommendations for a decent motherboard.
If you have any other recommendations, I would appreciate it.

I am looking at 1066 mhz memory.

Thank you.

As far as the Motherboards go, im not to familiar with which is the best ones myself, but i do know that you dont need 1066mhz ram. Only Phenom Quad cores will run the ram at that speed. So as far as the ram goes go with 800Mhz.

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5311Mhz Validation

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$44.00 board that supports phenom and DDR 2 1066 with HTT 3.0 and up to 9950 BE 125 watt. Sports a 0 % return rate and overclocks like mad. Performs like a $150.00 board .

Yes only phenom support DDR 2 1066 but don't go for DDR 2 800. Go for DDR 2 900 with 4 4 4 12 timings for overclock head room. OR buy the DDR 2 1066 for later on it will just default to DDR 2 800 and you will have some nice overclocking headroom.

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AMD phenom II 1090T @ 4.23 Ghz custom water cooled
Asrock 890 FX deluxe 3 mother board
4 GB DDR 3 1600 @ 1688 Mhz 7 7 7 24 T1 2688 Mhz NB
2x 1 TB WD Sata III 64 mb cache HDD,s raid 0
2x 5870 HD @ 1015/1300 Asus reference
Dual OS win 7 x64 ultimate & win 7 x32 Ultimate (bench os)

That board is interesting...but the form factor is micro ATX.my son would like to use his current case. The motherboard in there is a ATX

dosent matter,the micro atx MB is smaller than a atx MB
you cant fit a atx in a micro atx case
but you can put a micro atx board in a atx case


-dimwit-

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I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

yep, it will work just fine.

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AMD phenom II 1090T @ 4.23 Ghz custom water cooled
Asrock 890 FX deluxe 3 mother board
4 GB DDR 3 1600 @ 1688 Mhz 7 7 7 24 T1 2688 Mhz NB
2x 1 TB WD Sata III 64 mb cache HDD,s raid 0
2x 5870 HD @ 1015/1300 Asus reference
Dual OS win 7 x64 ultimate & win 7 x32 Ultimate (bench os)

I like the M2n Series from Asus. Only like $100 or so and you can get a nice SLI capable board.

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AMD Phenom II 940 BE @ 3.66Ghz
6GB Patriot Vipers @ 1082Mhz
Asus M3A78-PRO Motherboard
9800 GTX+ 512Mb Pcie
Cool Master V8 CPU Cooler
Corsair TX650W Power Supplies

hes wanting budget not high end SLI.

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AMD phenom II 1090T @ 4.23 Ghz custom water cooled
Asrock 890 FX deluxe 3 mother board
4 GB DDR 3 1600 @ 1688 Mhz 7 7 7 24 T1 2688 Mhz NB
2x 1 TB WD Sata III 64 mb cache HDD,s raid 0
2x 5870 HD @ 1015/1300 Asus reference
Dual OS win 7 x64 ultimate & win 7 x32 Ultimate (bench os)

I'm not into gaming, or anything that is taxing on a board. I just upgraded from my Biostar GeForce 6100 board(didn't recognize my 6000+). I went for the GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3, just need a video card (no on board video) I love it , you are able to use 1066, AM2+, and a few other things. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128081 . I think you will be happy with it. I have been.

short answer

This

This for future upgradeability

and this, since it's for your son so I thought he'd do some casual gaming

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