motherboard selection

I would like some help in picking a motherboard and video card. I would like to hear any comments or experience, most of all who is up on the latest motherboard technology regarding; MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS or Abit Motherboards. I would like to run the NVIDIA chipset with an AMD 2.x Athlon CPU. The PC will be mostly for Gaming and light office use. Thank you for your help