What Motherboard ?

[Alkan]

I have a p4 3.06 533mhz chip. I am looking to buy a new motherboard. I have read a number of reviews and have narrowed the possibilities to:

1) Cheaper option;
Abit AI7 or Asus P4P800 Deluxe

or

2) Expensive option;
Abit IC7 Max or Asus P4C800 E Deluxe.

At the moment the cheap option is the most likely. What would you recommend ?

However, is there a benefit in paying for the more expensive option ? If so which one ?

Thanks for your help.

[-mb-]

Value option - Asus P4S800D.
Otherwie, P4P800 Deluxe.

[shredisn@tdead]

Whichever you buy you're not going to get the most out of them until you buy an P4C 800Mhz bus chip... If you don't plan to upgrade that for a while then you might as well go for the value option, no?

[Rythmic]

They're all going to change this year, so no point buying one as an investment

All 4 are good motherboards and I've seen very little real world difference between the 865s and 875 - but if you want to see figures, just pop along to anandtech.

Though I've built a few computers with these, I've felt to reason to upgrade from my P4PE (running a 3.06/533 at 3.5/600) - (maybe cause I just can't be bothered to reinstall windows ATM )

[Firelord]

Asus P4P-800D easy d00d!