What you'll find is most use either the VIA K8T800 or 880 northbridge, with the current hottest southbridge VIA makes (they commonized the connections about 2 years ago, so that they only had to swap out one of the bridge chips, usually the northbridge due to the memory controller living there), or the NVIDIA Nforce 3 chipset. Definitely check into reports of problems. The Hammer core does pull the power, and if the mobo maker skimped on the regulator components, then you will have trouble. And jameshunter97? I -think- I remember reading about an errata with some of the first MSI Athlon64 boards out there. A couple of the vendors had them, and there supposedly was a massive recall, but warnings went out that all the boards hadn't come back in, and to use vendors with good RMA records.... The ABit board has a good rep so far...