I've been thinking about getting a new motherboard/proc set up, and I think I've decided to go with Inted this time instead of AMD. I'm on my second Athlon right now(XP2400+), and both of them have been great, but I just want to try something different. I think I've decided to go with the P4 2.8 Ghz processor, but I don't really know what motherboard to go with. Does anyone have any opinions/suggestions what which motherboard to get, or will I really be able to tell the difference between any of them? Thanks for the help.

2.4Ghz or 2.8Ghz? Well either way, I have a 2.8Ghz PIV and I am using the MSI 865PE Neo2-P motherboard. I have absolutely no problems with it at all, except that a heat sink on the board that is close to the CPU made it a little difficult (but not impossible) to install my Zalman CNPS heatsink (which is really big, but also really good at cooling and really quiet).

if you are going sATA and you have the 800Mhz FSB on that P4, then go with the Asus MB line, as they offer extreemly high power, and stability.

i run a P4 2.4M 800Mhz FSB on the Asus P4P800 deluxe. that is the model with the onboard 10/100/1000 NIC (2 of them mind you) up to 8USB2.0, sATA RAID0/1, sound and installed straight out of the box with winXP pro including partition and format time under 15min before i was sitting at the first log in screen after install.

Asus currently has better and faster boards out now, but the last Asus i put together i had to get a floppy for the F6 and install the RAID drivers as they were to new for windows.

as for running sATA with *nix? i have seen limited support for it as of yet, IMHO sucks majorly. its really holding back the *nix world IMHO as before to long all the older ATA HDs will go the way of the dodo birds.