Thats what i done but its a mistake i made, 754 isnt all that great, if possible find a combo with a 939 socket, and a board with the same specs. And 939 isnt realy more expensive than 754
Socket 939 is the way to go. True, this mobo is PCI-E instead of AGP, but I figured that you would surely upgrade your vid card when you take the plunge. The CPU is OEM, but everyone needs to use something besides stock cooling. The retail version is only about 4 or 5 bucks more.
I'd rather have AGP, because I'm buying a new card for my pentium 4 and I'm just gonna use my old card (GeForce 2 ti) but what do you guys think of Chaintech?