AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1ghz HT 1mb L2 939 processor
Sapphire Radeon X850XT 256 MB 256 bit gddr3 pci-e 16x
With this m/b- Asus A8N5X socket 939
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
I'm going to reuse my ram (1 gig corsair xms pc3200), hard drives, case and
everything else. Is this m/b good, I read most of the review's just
wondering if anyone else has had issues with it.
I don't care about sli so thats not an issue. Any thought's? TIA..
Should be good enough for GPL anyway... ;)
Depends what you're hoping to run on it I guess.
I notice www.sharkeyextreme is recommending the MSI K8N for their Value
*** System this month. Myself I've always liked Asus motherboards. The
MSI is a few bucks cheaper so that's why they recommended it. I have no
experience with Socket 939 (I wish I did!) but I don't see how you can go
wrong with Asus.
-Tony-
Bite the bullet and get an Asus A8N32SLI-Deluxe. I did and I'm running a
Toledo 4800 AMD CPU with a 7800GTX 512MB video card and this thing smokes!
The smart money's probably on the latter. :-)
Andrew McP
cheers, uwe
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The only caution I have about this board is that the PCI slot placements are
very poorly designed, and in it's design nothing else was taken into
consideration except SLI configurations. The PCI slots are nearly
throw-aways.
I have ONE video card and a Sound card, and it was a tight fit!
Otherwise I like it just fine.
If you have need for 2 or more PCI cards, you may want to look elsewhere.
-Larry
It's certainly not as transparent as it was on previous chipsets/CPUs.
The HTT/memory controller layer of complication may be what's
responsible for the biggest gains in this generation, but it's also
another layer of tweakage to deal with. And the more things to tweak in
overclocking, the more permutations you have, and the harder it can be
to work out which element of your system's hit the buffers.
I'm sure some motherboards & BIOSes are more helpful than others though.
Andrew McP
>> overclockings a doddlle nowadays
> http://www.short-media.com/review.php?p=9&r=300
> It's certainly not as transparent as it was on previous chipsets/CPUs.
> The HTT/memory controller layer of complication may be what's
> responsible for the biggest gains in this generation, but it's also
> another layer of tweakage to deal with. And the more things to tweak in
> overclocking, the more permutations you have, and the harder it can be
> to work out which element of your system's hit the buffers.
> I'm sure some motherboards & BIOSes are more helpful than others though.
> Andrew McP
