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what's the best motherboard for amd athlon 64
My experience; I think it's probably a tie between the MSI k8t and the
ASUS k8v. The reason I chose those rather than others is simple, both support cool'n'quiet. Does anyone know any other motherboard that supports cool'n'quiet? I have tried both. And here is my experience. 1. The MSI has the advantage of dynamic overclocking, which will automatically overclock the CPU depending on your usage needs, ASUS doesn't have this feature, though you can overclock manually in the bios. I'm not entirely sure that dynamic overclocking is pretty stable to use. I had stability problems with with hindsight now i think they were due to the PC-Cillin antivirus 2002. 2. ASUS has a green motherboard LED which i found quite useful when installing the motherboard and checking out what could be going wrong. The MSI motherboard doesn't. 3. The ASUS bios chip is socketed, the MSI motherboard soldered. A BIG BIG BIG plus for ASUS, a minus for MSI. 4. ASUS motherboard also had BIOS specific recovery features. MSI doesn't. 5. The ASUS hardware and software exuded solid quality, the MSI felt rather cheap. 6. The CPU on the ASUS fits in a more central location than the MSI, which in case you're using accessories like a CPU fan duct, it'd work out well. The MSI's CPU socket is located out towards the edge of the motherboard, which seems unconventional and may cause problems if you're buying modding accessories. 7. The MSI is less expensive than the ASUS, but the difference in quality is evident; with the ASUS, you get what you pay for, and that's high quality. Overall, I prefer the ASUS. Dynamic overclocking of the MSI is nice, but hey, who cares; the athlon 64 is fast already, and better have something stable rather than marginally fast. |
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Another board to consider is the Gigabyte K8NNXP. It supports Cool n' Quiet.
I couldn't get it to run stable with Kingston HyperX PC 3200, but have since heard rumors of some mislabeling with that memory. Went to Mushkin Level 1 PC 3500 and it runs great. Has a backup BIOS, SATA and ATA RAID, and a dual power system. Firewire is 1394b. Dual LAN. Assembly was easy and the board seems well made. BIOS has a "best performance" setting which provides a mild OC (FSB 208 MHz, Memory 416 MHz, Hypertransport 1248 MHz). Product support is marginal. A good forum to look at is: http://forums.amd.com/index.php? Scroll down to the AMD64 section and you can read quite a bit about peoples experience with different boards. Fitz |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:20:02 -0700, Mike Henley wrote:
My experience; I think it's probably a tie between the MSI k8t and the ASUS k8v. The reason I chose those rather than others is simple, both support cool'n'quiet. Does anyone know any other motherboard that supports cool'n'quiet? Best is just a point of view. It just needs work. I'm quite happy with my S755Max from Jetway. And it also supports Cool n' Quiet with the latest bios. Also supports overclocking, sata raid and ata raid. -- Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB) http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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