New motherboard advice

ediz

I've found myself in need of an unexpected upgrade (dramatic motherboard death sadly) and because of finances I need to hang onto my agp card, which means I can't follow the masses and go for an nforce4 board. I need a socket 939 board and it'll be running a venice cored 3200 with mushkin level1 ram, it looks like a choice between an nforce3 or via chipset, and god knows what manufacturer.

I'd like to overclock the venice with a decent cooler so overclocking options would be handy in the bios, has anyone got any suggestions that would suit the venice overclock with an agp slot, i've in the past had good experiences with msi but my recently departed abit nforce2 board was more than a little tempramental (overclocking consisted of minor changes followed by constant cmos jumper resets...)

Any advice much apreciated, the rather sudden need to upgrade has left me a little unprepared knowledgewise

ps: any idea if the 380watt antec in a sonata case would run my system (overclocked venice 3200/5900 ultra/dvd writer/ide hard drive/sata drive) ?

DemonOfTheFall

Yep, the antec 380watt will serve you fine.

For socket 939, AGP and overclocking you probably want one of these:
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=303412&view=detailed
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=306807&view=detailed

savemejebus

or you could get one of these
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=307156&cks=SER

picked the wifi version up on bgrade last week for 95 (with everything included)

4Xcut

If you want to check power, this is a handy little tool

ediz

Cheers for the help guys, nice catch on that b-grade nforce3 board, owing to shortness of funds I had to go for an abit av8 with the via chipset in the b-grade section for 60 .

Only just worked noticed after the act that it's limited to a somewhat restrictive 2.8 vdimm max, which puts paid to using any fancy bh5 loaded corsair/ocz stuff requiring heavy 3.o plus vdimm settings. Anyone have any knowledge of what sort of ddr4000 etc ram would run alright on lowish vdimm settings?