I got a new motherboard and cpu last week and put everything together this past weekend. I didn't feel like getting a ton of new ram, so I went with a socket 939 board. After some research, I ended up getting the Asus A8N5X with an AMD Athlon 64 3800. I have to say it was one of the smoothest installs I've done. I feel comfortable recommending this motherboard who is in the market for something similar. It was nice to have everything "just work".
So far, I've been happy with the AMD 64 - my third AMD. I know the Core2 Duo is the hot kid on the block these days, but I've been finding myself more and more turned off to Intel and Windows lately, especially with DRM (don't get me started on PDF DRM!), so I feel better choosing AMD for my platform. The rest of my system consists of 2GB of PC3200, a GeForce 7800GT and a 250GB WD SATA drive. I have dual 20" LCD's - one is a Dell FP2001 and the other is a ViewSonic VP201b. While I like the picture a little better on ViewSonic, I have this annoying problem where once in a while it won't turn on! I'll boot Windows and have all the icons that were on my extended desktop thrust onto my primary display! Sucks. I may send it in for warranty repair - unless this is the way it's supposed to work! :-p
So, let's see how Call Of Duty 2 performs with this system! (I have to say, CoD2 is one of my favorite games - graphics are amazing, great gameplay, and I love the controls).
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I moved my wife over to AMD from Intel (to a Sempron 64 from a Pentium III). No problems with the hardware, lots of problems (resolved) with the software. I have no regrets; it's so much faster that she loves it.
I know what you mean about being down on Windows. I like XP well enough, but what I've seen of Vista just leaves me cold.
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