The old nForce3-150 was inferior when comapared to Via K8T800 chipset...but now nVidia eliminated all the flaws of nForce3-150, in the nForce3-250 Gb.....
now, Via has also upgraded it's k8T800 chiset to K8T800 PRO, but this new chipset is hardly different from the older one....
some of the pros and cons:-
nForce3 has integrated Northbridge and Southbridge int one single chip, and due to this more real estate is freed up in the motherboard...
nForce3 natively supports 4 SATA drives whereas K8T800 supports 2...
nForce3's integrated Gigabit Ethernet is faster and superior to that of K8T800's...
but the onboard sound of nForce3-250Gb is not as good as K8T800 (both have integrated 6.1 channel audio)...
But these differences doesnt help to pick out a winner of the two..both chipsets perform equally well in gaming and as well as in regular office use...
so u can go for the motherboard that has any one of these chipsets (nForce3 250Gb or K8T800Pro) but provide extra features such as easy Overclocking ability (like D.O.T of MSI) or More memory capacity or features like EZBios (of Asus ), which makes Bios updates an easy process or more USB connectors etc...
so u can check out these motherboards...
1]MSI K8N Neo
2]MSI K8T Neo FSR
3]Asus K8V-X
4]Asus K8N
generally MSI motherboards r rich in features....choose that motherboard which has more USB slots, DIMM slots etc. within ur budget.....
[Edit]sorry guys....forum was not responding when i posted this..clicked Refresh couple of times....i wan not able to Logout also...so those Forward and Backward things....all summed up to this multiple posts....forum was not opening today morning...giving some php error, can not connet database....well, i will now inform Batty...he may delete these posts....
will inform Batty now...may be he will delete these....