my sister is makeing up a comp and she wants to know the best mother board to buy and other stuff something that can be updated in the future with out paying to much something that might take a bigger chip when one comes out if you know what i mean thanks :beer:

What line do you want to go down, AMD or Intel?

intel mate she also wants to run 3 screens of it as she has seen one with 3 screens and she thinks it very nice

The Abit IC7-G is a top class P4 board & I like the layout. I have fitted one of these for someone, the CPU socket is not surrounded by caps and they turned it 90o. The only way you can positively CPU future proof a motherboard is to buy a CPU half the size the motherboard will support, but by the time you want to upgrade CPU the it's technology will be out of date.

Originally posted by pudknocker
intel mate she also wants to run 3 screens of it as she has seen one with 3 screens and she thinks it very nice

Wow, she must be a serious user to need 3 screens ... ???

no mate not at all i dont see the point my self she seen a comp in a book like it and said thats what she wants but she will probly change her mind when i show her the price of them one more thing if she does get the 3 does the pic spread over the 3 screens or can you use them for diferent things

Multi- screen display, best of luck, I had a go on a horizontal triple 18" LCD display at a show last year, drag & drop from screen to screen video wall, the driver software had built in intelligence so an application could be on any screen, or maximized across all screens, the res' was 1024X768, with the ammount of desktop shortcuts a screen gets cluttered with you would need a map or grid reference to find them, and as for games, 'kin 'ell. I know the triple display screen alone was over £1200. Tell you what, buy her one, if she does not like it I will do you a swap for my 19" trinitron, & I will throw in the wife & mother in law.

Originally posted by C0UGAR UK
The Abit IC7-G is a top class P4 board & I like the layout.

Agree, that is a great board, but to go one better is the Abit IC-7 MAX3

SOYO SY-P4I875P DRAGON 2 (Platinum Edition)This also is a good board, looks cool too.

also lads whats the best hard drive cd writer dvd writer sound card and what ever else she will need for the money

Originally posted by pudknocker
also lads whats the best hard drive cd writer dvd writer sound card and what ever else she will need for the money

LOl, not asknig much eh ;) Use the search function here in co-op, everyone of those has been discussed more than once in recent times :)

its is purely subjective and opinionated.
ask whats the best and you will get a million answers and still have no clue

ok thanks

As a final thought, once you've nailed down a rough idea of what you want, its really worth your while to spend a bit of time with google and looking for reviews on the various bits of hardware. You can get a lot of insight into how well things work together as well as the other things on the market from reviews - word of warning, read more than 1 on the same thing (some reviewers are crap, look for big sites like toms hardware) and try to keep in mind what you want the machine to do or you'll end up building a supercomputer!

Originally posted by C0UGAR UK
if she does not like it I will do you a swap for my 19" trinitron, & I will throw in the wife & mother in law.

Hey Cougar, how much just for the wife and mother in law? :laugh: