Suggestions on AMD mobo
The easy part: I am leaping to an Athlon 2500+ (from my ageing Thunderbird 1. 3GHz) in September. The hard part: Choosing a new mobo! Now, I have been reading EVERY review on zillions of sites and I have almost maden up my mind.
The easy part:
I am leaping to an Athlon 2500+ (from my ageing Thunderbird 1.3GHz) in September.
The hard part:
Choosing a new mobo! Now, I have been reading EVERY review on zillions of sites and I have almost maden up my mind. My canditade list has been shortened to this:
Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2
MSI KT6 Delta-FISR KT600
Asus A7V600
Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 / Deluxe
Soltek SL-KT600-R
Gigabyte GA-7N400L1
well all of them have USB2, some of the have Firewire, 5/6 PCI slots, LAN (the MSI has gigaLAN I think) and sound on board (I will be getting an Audigy though). Now if you have one of the above mentioned mobos, tell me about overclocking and stability issues, configuration issues, something you liked or disliked about it, anything.
Moreover, any other of you who is really satifsied from their mobo, please do post your opinion. I will make my final choice according to pricing/availability and your posts of course.
Thank you for your feedback!
I am leaping to an Athlon 2500+ (from my ageing Thunderbird 1.3GHz) in September.
The hard part:
Choosing a new mobo! Now, I have been reading EVERY review on zillions of sites and I have almost maden up my mind. My canditade list has been shortened to this:
Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2
MSI KT6 Delta-FISR KT600
Asus A7V600
Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 / Deluxe
Soltek SL-KT600-R
Gigabyte GA-7N400L1
well all of them have USB2, some of the have Firewire, 5/6 PCI slots, LAN (the MSI has gigaLAN I think) and sound on board (I will be getting an Audigy though). Now if you have one of the above mentioned mobos, tell me about overclocking and stability issues, configuration issues, something you liked or disliked about it, anything.
Moreover, any other of you who is really satifsied from their mobo, please do post your opinion. I will make my final choice according to pricing/availability and your posts of course.
Thank you for your feedback!
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Do not buy a VIA based board
Since you have the option of a NFORCE2 board, go that route
Gone are the days where AMD users have to buy subpar chipsets, with more issues then kobe bryant's accuser
anyways, Nforce2 is stable, well priced, and has so many great features.
Gigabyte makes some of the best boards for AMD, ASUS is good but they've seem to be going downhill on thier quality as of late, SOYO and MSI can be ok, but ABIT and GIGABYTE are the 2 top ones in my opinion.
I had a micro ATX ABIT nforce1 board, and it was a real pleasure to own
Since you have the option of a NFORCE2 board, go that route
Gone are the days where AMD users have to buy subpar chipsets, with more issues then kobe bryant's accuser
anyways, Nforce2 is stable, well priced, and has so many great features.
Gigabyte makes some of the best boards for AMD, ASUS is good but they've seem to be going downhill on thier quality as of late, SOYO and MSI can be ok, but ABIT and GIGABYTE are the 2 top ones in my opinion.
I had a micro ATX ABIT nforce1 board, and it was a real pleasure to own
well it would be great to get a new mobo but with the kids starting school and bills piling trading seems to be the only option for a while for me. Plus my 8K7A board is about to croak because there is elctrolyte fluid leaking from the tops of a lot of the compasitors (bad sign). Haha unless someone here had a decent to good mobo I can trade for instead of the dragon +
I'd be careful about what RAM you pair with the nForce 2 boards. I've had a real hell trying to get a couple different boards (Epox 8RDA, MSI K7N2 Delta L) working, and they both had issues with 3-4 different brands I used (Samsung, Kingston, Buffalo). I've been reading that the MSI is pretty picky about memory. The KT600 is more of a value chipset that's best run at stock speeds from what I've been reading. I doubt you're gonna see anymore real work put into chipsets for the Socket A Athlons anymore.
I don't know about their NF7, but Abit's full ATX board, the NV7-133R, was one stable board, and regarded as about the best NF1 board. After having so much trouble with 2 other NF2 boards, I gave up and went for a cheap i865P chipset board and bought a P4 to go with it (sold my 1.6A a month earlier ;( )
I don't know about their NF7, but Abit's full ATX board, the NV7-133R, was one stable board, and regarded as about the best NF1 board. After having so much trouble with 2 other NF2 boards, I gave up and went for a cheap i865P chipset board and bought a P4 to go with it (sold my 1.6A a month earlier ;( )
