I went through this excercise recently and settled on the ASUS A8V
deluxe. The AMD 64 processor support and the price  was more important
to me than other factors. ($100.00 rebate). This board was easy to
install and has been very stable. There are new versions available since
then. I had a couple of support questions that were answered quickly and
accurately by ASUS.
I suggest you look at  Anand: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/  and Tom's
Hardware guide  http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html

daniel wrote:

>Thanks John:
>I will use it to surf the web, scanning, digital camera, word processing
>I was thinking of an AMD processor with 939 socket.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Sproule" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] FIRS TIME BUILD
>
>
>
>
>>I would suggest going with a PCI Express motherboard at this stage of the
>>game.  It looks like the industry is making the shift towards this
>>
>>
>becoming
>
>
>>the predominant video card standard.
>>
>>I guess that next you have to decide what processor you want to use,
>>
>>
>before
>
>
>>you can decide which motherboard to use to support this processor.
>>
>>This in turn will help you to see what kind of memory you are going to
>>
>>
>need
>
>
>>to buy (DDR or DDR2).
>>
>>Do you have some ideas of what sorts of things you will mostly be using
>>
>>
>this
>
>
>>computer for?  What do you imagine will be the most demanding applications
>>or kinds of use that this computer should be capable of handling?
>>
>>Knowing this might help others make further suggestions.
>>
>>John Sproule
>>
>>

                  Visit our website regularly for FAQs,
               articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more
                          http://freepctech.com