I am having a lot of trouble with my decision for a new motherboard. I am interested in a P4 motherboard with the 875 northbridge and the ICH5R southbridge. I have read many reviews for motherboards like these and have narrowed it down to three. The first is the Abit IC7-Max3, the second is the Gigabyte 8KNXP and the third is the Chaintech 9CJS Zenith. While I have seen many reviews, I have not found conclusive evidence that any of these boards is the best out of the three. I am hoping that someone could help me out in pointing me to the best of these three boards for a primarily gaming system. Thank you for any help.

Get an Intel Motherboard. There very effective and efficent. There also cheap(well not that cheap but nothign extreme) long lasting and dont have many problems very simple and straigt foward. What motherboard you should get is more or less up to you. Get something that at least 533 fsb and max 800 fsb etc.

If you want to overclock any at all you might as well forget about getting an intel mobo. If i were you i'd get the abit IC7-Max3.....it has great performance and it allows you to over clock like a mad man, and stable as stable can be too. Not to say that the intell mobo is a bad mobo.......but i'd get the abit if i were you......later y0!