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I know that's not true. From every review I've read, It doesn't matter what chipset your using with the Athlon64. VIA and SiS are both good and stable platforms for AMDs. My current board has a SiS 735 chipset on it and its rock stable. In fact I've heard quite the opposite. The nForce 3 150 hasn't been making the cut. It's not unleashing the full power of the Athlon64. That's why nVidia had to release the nForce 3 250 chipset to replace it.

I am using the VIA KT333 chipset and that runs rock solid with my Athlon XP.  I have not had one problem since i got it about 1 year ago.

I gonna have to look at this overclockers place in more detail. You say they are very reputable for their after sales support? I would have built my own, I must have read hundreds of 'Build your own PC' turorials and books by now, but I was scared of bu*gering some small and crucial and EXPENSIVE part in the build.
Dan G

It depend on the res you wanna use in your games. I used to have a 17" TFT and it was very very nice to use. Thing was it had a max res of 1280x1024.  When I ordered my 6800ultra I knew the monitor was gonna be holdin that beast back so I gave it to my g/friend and brought a top notch CRT. I got a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930sb.  This is an awsome CRT. Picture quality is the best I have seen  and it does silly high resoultions 1920x1440 

I would have liked another TFT which would do 1600x1200 but the smallest size is 20.1" and costs about £500  My CRT was about £250 i think. The only thing I thought I would miss from my TFT was the colour vividness but then I found out my CRT has a superbright mode  this intensifies all the colours so its as colourful as a TFT 

If I went for a 17" TFT again I would probably get this one from the overclockers site:

LG Flatron L1710B 17" TFT Monitor (MO-003-LG)
- Silver slim bezel
- DVI-I digital input for reduced loss of signal
- Supplied with DVI cable
- Resolution of 1280 x 1024 @ 75Hz
- Integrated power block for reduced cable clutter and easy wall mounting
- 250 cdm/2 brightness
- 450:1 contrast ratio
- 16ms response time
- Wall mountable - VESA standard 100
- TCO '99 & USB hub
- Comprehensive 3 year on-site warranty

Its £10 more than the other one but it has higer contrast ratio and uses the DVI socket instead of the VGA on thus you get a crisper clearer image.

Not sure about the 'not liking' ati. For sure the board will probably work best with Nvidia g/cards, my brother has same mobo as me with an ATI9800pro. Runs superb and fs9 looks great on it 

Monitors are very important.  A 15" monitor will restrict your max resolution a lot, in fact your max is probably 1024x768 which is why your game runs quite well.  As we spend more on g/cards you need a good monitor to show off its effects 

R u sure your monitor does that higher res? Your graphics card is capable of 1600x1200 but I don't know of any 15"crt that goes above 1280x1024.

17" good quality CRT is the smallest CRT I know that hits 1600x1200. 

Even at 1280x1024 on a 15" everything would be really small I dont think it would be readable at 1600x1200 lol.  Be careful if you try to det it at 1600x1200 I did this once on a 17" crt that didn't support above 1280x1024 and the screen went black, and stayed black  Had to boot into safe mode to sort it out.