Best Mobo Help

Discussion in 'CPU, Motherboards and Memory' started by FishyWishy, Oct 14, 2004.

  1. FishyWishy

    FishyWishy Geek Trainee

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    AMD ATHLON-64 K8 754

    i need to know the best motherboard to accomodate this chip

    my choices are the motherboards on this site

    http://www.gamedude.com.au/prod_list.php?maingroup=MOTHERBOARD&secondgroup=AMD ATHLON-64 K8 754

    price is no problem

    i also understand that the 939 chips are heaps better and better for the future .. but .. :swear: they are expensive

    so could u please advise me what the best mobo would be

    thankyou :)
     
  2. Addis

    Addis The King

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    If you havn't purchased the cpu yet then I'd buy a socket 939 mobo and cpu to go with it. I'd go with a a mobo by MSI or Asus, but I've heard bad rumours about some Epox mobos.
     
  3. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Stay far far away from Epox, as they seem to have some serious quality control issues in recent history.

    Probably the best bet would be MSI, especially if their Socket 754 boards are anything like the K8N Neo 2.

    BTW, we've disabled use of HTML in posts. You can use the vB code, however.
     
  4. FishyWishy

    FishyWishy Geek Trainee

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    the main prob is the money, i have to keep it under 2000 AUS and thats including monitor, how can i link u to that website if i cant use normal linkage?

    its www.gamedude.com.au ... heeeeelp

    i cant go to the 939 chips cause they are so friggen expensive and there are only like 3 mobos avaliable from this site ..

    would i be better off going with the Socket A chips? of maybe intel?

    im confused.. im good at shopping for everything else but mobo's

    please help
     
  5. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    If it absolutely has to be a motherboard from that list, I'd take the MSI K8T Neo.

    However, I suggest you go with the MSI K8N Neo, which is basically the same board with an nvidia chipset, instead of via.

    I admit there is a significant price difference.
     
  6. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    http://www.hardwareforums.com/misc.php?do=bbcode

    By default, you can type the full address in and the forum software will automatically enable it. The link above is a list of the vB codes you can use. Pretty similar to HTML tags, but they use [] instead of < >


    Now, do you have to buy from that one site?
     
  7. Addis

    Addis The King

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    Is there much of a performance difference between the via and nvidia nforce chipsets anyway? With new tech i wouldn't imagiine a noticable difference.
     
  8. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    This board has the revised version of the nforce3 chipset, and has working pci/agp locks.

    Performance should be on nvidia's side but my guess is the K8T is an older board, therefore cheaper.
     
  9. FishyWishy

    FishyWishy Geek Trainee

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    Thankyou all for the input .. i believe i shall get the MSI

    :) this computer shall be hardcore :)
     

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