Well I like Antec Power Supplies because I've seen them save a computer when by every thing that's Holy it should have been destroyed. A tree came down in a thunder storm and brought the 33 KV lines in contact with the Low Voltage Mains and the Antec PS threw about 3 feet of flame out of the back set fire to the curtains and died. I expected the computer to be toast and when I replaced the PS it worked and is still working 3 years latter. While I wouldn't recommend this treatment it's nice to know that things like this can happen without destroying the rest of the computer.
As for M'Boards just about any of the Branded ones like Gigabyte, ASUS, ABit, Tyan or the like provided that they are not the all in one types with an on board Video Processor. You take too much of a performance hit with these where they use the CPU as a GPU and some of the system memory for the Video as well.
Look around at the Makers Web Sites and then decide on which one you want and shop around for the best price. Here are a couple of the sites.
http://tinyurl.com/4jyh3
http://tinyurl.com/hcptj
http://tinyurl.com/j3afn
http://tinyurl.com/zpcd2
http://tinyurl.com/e5zdk
You might even be able to pickup a cheap M'Board on places like E Bay. But that's up to you, I personally have used all of the above Brands without a problem over all, if the M'Board is going to go faulty it generally happens in a very short time and gets replaced Under Guarantee and I've only ever had 1 Gigabyte and 1 ASUS do this out of thousands that I've used over the years. I currently have a Tyan Quad Pentium M'Board running perfectly with 4 200 MMX on it a Gigabyte Dual P2/3 running perfectly and several others all working A OK after several years.
The ones that I've had real problems with have always been the MSI and PC Chips brands but they really are at the cheap end of the market and you honestly can't expect much better than what they deliver.
Col
