OT: Looking to upgrade, need thoughts on m/b

This is what I'm looking at so far: 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.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569 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..

>AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1ghz HT 1mb L2 939 processor Should be good enough for GPL anyway... ;) Depends what you're hoping to run on it I guess.

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> This is what I'm looking at so far: > > 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.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569 > 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.. I notice www.sharkeyextreme is recommending the MSI K8N for their Value Gaming 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-

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> This is what I'm looking at so far: > > 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.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569 > 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.. > >

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!

[email hidden] (John Smith) wrote: > AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego Those SD cores seem to be capable of running a lot faster. If I was buying a single core processor now it's certainly what I'd get. Good bang for buck with plenty of potential... if you can work out exactly how to overclock these days. It seems to have got a lot more complicated. Either that or I got a lot more stupid recently. The smart money's probably on the latter. :-) Andrew McP

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:14:14 GMT, Tony Jester wrote: > I notice www.sharkeyextreme is recommending the MSI K8N for their Value > Gaming 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. I have both brands (socket 939) in active service at the moment (MSI in my Linux machine, Asus A8V Deluxe for windows gaming), and both are excellent motherboards. cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

I have the same setup. 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 "graycat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:QA8Sf.1599$[email hidden]... > 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! >

overclockings a doddlle nowadays get an opteron chip and an asus motherboard that has the u controller, overclocking at the touch of a button

[email hidden] (Stephen White) wrote: > 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

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> [email hidden] (Stephen White) wrote: > >> 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 > > >

ok my head hurts after reading this...I'm looking for the best bang for the buck. I'm not too worried about overclocking. Thanks for the info guys!