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Good AMD upgrade mobo?
Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From
what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial). |
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grendel wrote:
Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial). I got a Abit NF7-S motherboard and I am very happy with it, offers serial ATA, and most other things you want, it is an Nforce 2 board. It was about £100 in the U.K. |
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Get an Epox 8RDAx+ : beloved of hardcore overclockers and excellent value.
QED, eh ? --------- Epox 8RDA3+ (224 FSB - 2.0v, 60mm NB Sink, 19CFM) XP1800 DLT3C (10.0 - 2240 MHz stable - 1.78v, 40CFM Volcano 9+) 2 x OCZ 256MB PC3700 (448 - 7-3-3 / 2.0 dual - 2.9v) Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro (383/362 - 1.5v, 40CFM) Air - 44/64C 3DMk03 - 5,805 3DMk01 - 17,990 "grendel" wrote in message ... Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial). |
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Ok IF I buy AMD I want to spend LESS than $200 for both CPU and mobo.
Both the Abit and Epox are more than $100 just for the mobo. I may take the Asus since it's less than $90. I don't overclock. I want stability. I don't want to risk premature hardware failure to get a few more 3dMarks or FPS. If the Pentium 4 800 FSB comes down a little more to about $150 then I'm going with an Intel board and CPU. If I could get the mobo and CPU for like $250 I'd go Intel. "QED, eh ?" wrote in message ... Get an Epox 8RDAx+ : beloved of hardcore overclockers and excellent value. QED, eh ? --------- Epox 8RDA3+ (224 FSB - 2.0v, 60mm NB Sink, 19CFM) XP1800 DLT3C (10.0 - 2240 MHz stable - 1.78v, 40CFM Volcano 9+) 2 x OCZ 256MB PC3700 (448 - 7-3-3 / 2.0 dual - 2.9v) Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro (383/362 - 1.5v, 40CFM) Air - 44/64C 3DMk03 - 5,805 3DMk01 - 17,990 "grendel" wrote in message ... Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial). |
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The Shuttle AN35N-Ultra 400 is a rock stable no frills board with the
nForce2 Ultra 400 + MCP chipset that is dirt cheap. The Soltek nforce2 boards are also excellent buys and offer different extras depending. I've built a system with the Shuttle $66 (shipped at the time) and the Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL. The Soltek RL is $99 or $96 w/out raid now in US. Both were instant runners with no problems on set up.Again it depends on what you want but the Soltek is an excellent overclocker if you'd ever use it while the Shuttle really can't be beat for the price. "Grendel" wrote in message m... Ok IF I buy AMD I want to spend LESS than $200 for both CPU and mobo. Both the Abit and Epox are more than $100 just for the mobo. I may take the Asus since it's less than $90. I don't overclock. I want stability. I don't want to risk premature hardware failure to get a few more 3dMarks or FPS. If the Pentium 4 800 FSB comes down a little more to about $150 then I'm going with an Intel board and CPU. If I could get the mobo and CPU for like $250 I'd go Intel. "QED, eh ?" wrote in message ... Get an Epox 8RDAx+ : beloved of hardcore overclockers and excellent value. QED, eh ? --------- Epox 8RDA3+ (224 FSB - 2.0v, 60mm NB Sink, 19CFM) XP1800 DLT3C (10.0 - 2240 MHz stable - 1.78v, 40CFM Volcano 9+) 2 x OCZ 256MB PC3700 (448 - 7-3-3 / 2.0 dual - 2.9v) Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro (383/362 - 1.5v, 40CFM) Air - 44/64C 3DMk03 - 5,805 3DMk01 - 17,990 "grendel" wrote in message ... Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial). |
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:30:02 -0700, Grendel wrote:
Ok IF I buy AMD I want to spend LESS than $200 for both CPU and mobo. Both the Abit and Epox are more than $100 just for the mobo. I may take the Asus since it's less than $90. I don't overclock. I want stability. I don't want to risk premature hardware failure to get a few more 3dMarks or FPS. If the Pentium 4 800 FSB comes down a little more to about $150 then I'm going with an Intel board and CPU. If I could get the mobo and CPU for like $250 I'd go Intel. If you aren't going to raise the voltage or change the multiplier, then the ASrock K7S8X is one of the best choices. It will take all AMD cpu's. $49. Based on the SIS746FX chipset. Had mine for about a week. I don't think this board can be beat for the price. -- Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB) http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html |
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"Wes Newell" wrote in
news On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:30:02 -0700, Grendel wrote: Ok IF I buy AMD I want to spend LESS than $200 for both CPU and mobo. Both the Abit and Epox are more than $100 just for the mobo. I may take the Asus since it's less than $90. I don't overclock. I want stability. I don't want to risk premature hardware failure to get a few more 3dMarks or FPS. If the Pentium 4 800 FSB comes down a little more to about $150 then I'm going with an Intel board and CPU. If I could get the mobo and CPU for like $250 I'd go Intel. If you aren't going to raise the voltage or change the multiplier, then the ASrock K7S8X is one of the best choices. It will take all AMD cpu's. $49. Based on the SIS746FX chipset. Had mine for about a week. I don't think this board can be beat for the price. I would also look at the Shuttle AK32E. At NewEgg it is $52. The user reviews of it by those putting a Athlon XP+ processor on it were so strong that it became my choice to upgrade from an older Soyo. So far, it is excellent. You can change the fsb, have a few limited changes for VCore, but cannot change the memory, AGP, or PCI voltages (which some overclockers like to do.) It will take either 2 DDR or 2 SDRAM, but not at the same time. Interesting, well designed board. Sound on board but no NIC. I hadn't looked at Shuttle until recently and had been recommending Abit, EpoX, or Soyo. But Shuttle has a number of interesting boards, both Via and NVidia chipsets. -- Dennis Roark Starting Points: www.home.earthlink.net/~denro |
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If you want a good mobo all the whistles and bells go with the Asus
A7N8X Deluxe....BUT make sure it's version 2. Otherwise go with the EPoX 8RDA+. Crucial mermory is good budget memory. After buying mobo and memory should leave you with about $80 for the CPU. You should be able o pick up a AMD Athlon 2200 for that price. Shop around and try and get the best deal in one place so you save on shipping. BTW, what about the heatsink? Darth On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:22:38 GMT, "grendel" wrote: Looking for a good mobo to upgrade to from my 800 MHZ Athlon A7V board. From what I hear an nForce2 is the best Athlon chipset to get. Looks like the A7N8X-X is the boards to get. Trying to spend less than $300 for mobo, CPU and 512 MB of good DDR400 memory. (gonna get some from Crucial). |
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