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Mgoldb2 says the Nforce4 ultra chipset, so that would mean the A8N-E - right? But how about one of the A8V's with VIA chipsets?
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I don't think there's anything wrong with VIA chipsets (I'm about to build a machine using one for other reasons) but I think the nForce4s have a somewhat better reputation when it comes to compatibility issues. No chipset is perfect but at least if you have an NVIDIA chipset and an NVIDIA video card, you know they're designed to work together. PCI-Express seems to be a lot less trouble than AGP ever was so VIA would probably be fine but I'd go with NVIDIA if you don't have any strong reason to go in one direction or another. So you'd be down to A8N-E and A8N-SLI of one sort or another. If you don't care about the SLI part then you're just down to looking at the various amenities on the motherboard: PCI-Express x4 slot, RAID support, firewire, etc. Decide what slots and devices you want and then you're done.