Building a new system, need suggestion

A friend of mine is helping me build a new system. My question is should I buy a socket 939 or socket 734. Is there much of a differance? The processer will be AMD 64 with EPOCH motherboard

I think you mean Epox right? The 939 will be future proof, meaning that it is the latest socket and that is what AMD will be sticking with for the time being.

Welcome to the site.

I just built a new box. I waited untill I thought something big came along. Well, to me it did. PCI EXPRESS. I got a Intell 915GAG MB.
If U like games or just want a fast box,,,, Its 4 channel. as opposed to 1x. Its 16x graphics as opposed to AGP8x. 800FSB. There is now for a couple $ more dual channel DDR2. VERY fast. Hyper Threading. Get what is called SATA for ur HD. I went with the 256MB ATI card.
And U can put this togeather relitily cheap. stay with a P4 3.0GHZ unless U have extra $. The MB has onboard sound and video, but I wanted better Video. The sound is not bad at all. I have 5.1 surround and it works well with this sys.
Trust me on this. Its th3e biggest improvment in a long time.
CK IT OUT