He means the Gigabyte GA7-VRX series motherboards. It was recommended by Tom's in their KT333 review. There's a lot of evidence out that Gigabyte's design of the AGP slot powersupply is flawed and doesn't work right with GeForce 4 Ti cards.
I still read Toms, but only for the benchmarks. Their conclusions have been and continue to be biased toward whomever pays them the most for advertising IMO. Anandtech is my current review site of choice.
As for Intel CPUs vs AMD CPUs, some people seem to make it into another Chevy vs Ford type thing. I own (and have owned) both Intel and AMD based systems. I choose between them based on which offers the best performance for the dollar. That used to be Intel back when the Celeron first came out. That explains why I built a Celeron 366 system (now a P3 450 system after I got a used P3 CPU). I also used to own a P2 266, which later was a Celeron 466. A long time ago I had a P1 100 MHz system as well. Recently I've had a Tbird 700 Mhz, which I switched to a 1300 Mhz Tbird. My new system is XP 1900+ based. I did consider a 1.6 Ghz Northwood or a 2.26 Ghz 'B' series P4 for this new system, but the latter was too expensive and the former would have still lagged in performance compared to the XP 1900+ and was less upgradable. I also have the need to run some engineering applications, which do not run well on P4 CPUs compared to Athlons.
I don't consider myself to favor either Intel or AMD, and I think if you look back at my posts you will find I tend to favor the best solution for the money at that time. A year ago that was definately AMD, and two years ago Intel, now it depends largely on what you plan on doing with the system.
