Need new MB, which Asus to buy

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My last Asus board was an A7N8X-E deluxe.
Great board.

Time to upgrade again. Which should I look at. I am thinking AMD
processor.

Thanks for any advice
 
MeNotHome said:
My last Asus board was an A7N8X-E deluxe.
Great board.

Time to upgrade again. Which should I look at. I am thinking AMD
processor.

Thanks for any advice
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Price range?

Any particular features needed, i.e. on board video (lower cost), quiet
operation (no chipset fan, Cool & Quiet), used for gaming, general
office, digital media?

At high price end:

NVIDIA nForce™4 SLI X16: about $235

http://www.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=226&slname=NVIDIA nForce™4 SLI X16

At low price end:

A8N-VM about $72

http://www.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=231&slname=NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 410

I find using Newegg.com's search engine helpful in comparing various
alternatives: here it is set up to look at Asus societ 939 motherboards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=22&Submit=Property

I think the general consensus is that socket 754 motherboards are
"obsolete"--but, so am I. One advantage might be that you'd be able to
recycle your AGP video card. (A8V socket 939 boards take AGP too...but,
from many reviews I have read, it seems that the NVidia chipset is
preferable to Via's....)K8N and K8N-E use Nvidia chipset, have an AGP
slot, and are socket 754.

Good luck, HTH,

BC
 
MeNotHome said:
My last Asus board was an A7N8X-E deluxe.
Great board.

Time to upgrade again. Which should I look at. I am thinking AMD
processor.

Thanks for any advice
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Definitely get an AMD 64 processor. Need more info to determine your
requirements, but the A8N series is probably the best bet. Even the A8N-E at
the low end of the series is a very good board if you don't need the extra
features of the other boards.
 
Le Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:44:10 GMT, MeNotHome
My last Asus board was an A7N8X-E deluxe.
Great board.

Time to upgrade again. Which should I look at. I am thinking AMD
processor.

Thanks for any advice
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I'va switch from a socket A like u from a a7n8x-x nf2. And got a a8n5x
from asus witch is a nf4 only but i'm sure it will be as fast or even
better than a nf2 board. I would have chose a nf4 ultra if i could but
i was on a budget for the mobo video card and a cpu...

Also, the a8n5x is AI nos i think it is related to some over clocking
feature witch is enable under heavy load on the cpu so, i'm getting
with that a amd 3000 939 or a 3200 depending on the availability on
the market... Buying a SLI board would be an error i think as i've
been told you will only get 30% more of frame per sec with a second
video card on your mobo... So this i why i'm still up for a mobo that
has only one pci-e slot.

Also, amd 64bit socket 939 are capable of sse2 and sse3... And the
revision of the venice core should be E6 for the latest revision of
the core.

Finally amd 939 venice core are known to over clock form a 1.8gig for
a 3000 up to 2.5 Gh witch is like faster than a and 4000 i would
think. So amd s939 3000 or 3200 are the best bang for the buck at the
time...


have fun.
 
Definitely get an AMD 64 processor. Need more info to determine your
requirements, but the A8N series is probably the best bet. Even the A8N-E at
the low end of the series is a very good board if you don't need the extra
features of the other boards.
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I just got my a8n5x to work i had a little trouble to get it straight
still there is some bug to fix i didn't format before replacing... win
xp pro media center did handle the change whit out a trouble...

also i've flash my bios to the latest one... i had to cause my cpu was
not very much supported by the board.

So far so good everything work well...
 
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