What motherboard and CPU should I get?

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I've used Asus boards to build home desktops.

Three of them are now the backbone of my home network.

Now that 64-bit and dual cpu's are the talk of the town, I would like
to keep up to date with them. I bet the next one I am going to build
will be based on these motherboard and cpu.

Can you point me to where I can grasp up to the minute knowledge on
this subject.

By the way, I can not help noticing and feeling that Asus is not as
much interested in marketing motherboards as before. They seem to
concentrate more on desktop and notebook markets.

What other motherboard manufacture is as good as Asus used to be?

Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

baddley
 
baddley said:
I've used Asus boards to build home desktops.

Three of them are now the backbone of my home network.

Now that 64-bit and dual cpu's are the talk of the town, I would like
to keep up to date with them. I bet the next one I am going to build
will be based on these motherboard and cpu.

Can you point me to where I can grasp up to the minute knowledge on
this subject.

By the way, I can not help noticing and feeling that Asus is not as
much interested in marketing motherboards as before. They seem to
concentrate more on desktop and notebook markets.

What other motherboard manufacture is as good as Asus used to be?

Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

baddley

Aopen is better than Asus ever was, and better than Asus could ever aspire
to be.

Some other good brands are DFI, Epox and Biostar (highly underrated). I
would rank them all far above asus. In fact, Asus would come in 9th place
in a contest with just five participants. :)

The only thing else you need to know: Core 2 Duo. There, your research is
done. -Dave
 
Aopen is better than Asus ever was, and better than Asus could ever
aspire to be.

Some other good brands are DFI, Epox and Biostar (highly underrated).
I would rank them all far above asus. In fact, Asus would come in
9th place in a contest with just five participants. :)

Corse this is the Dave that gets almost everything wrong, so that doesnt prove much.
 
Check the prices on your end on motherboards, around here, MSI is what
you'd buy if you wanted to have the best, and Gigabyte is what you'd
buy if you wanted a stable cheap computer. Compared to MSI, Asus is
said to be one of the companies who drops quality to save money.

On processors, take a look at the latest multicore AMD processor (AMD
Athlon 64 x2 or something). Where I live, buying a multicore system
isn't worth it yet (I'm poor... used to live on Celerons in the past),
the newest singlecore AMD works great, is cheap and is the coolest CPU
in existance. The dualcore systems are just two cores on the same die,
while the production technologies and all are the same, so it should be
all good.

Processor sockets, look at AM2. It's DDR2 based and promisses future
compatibility to AM3 (DDR3). The memory bandwidth looks great there and
makes a big difference in system responsivnes mostly, so you might also
want to put high speed RAM there.

baddley je napisal:
 
Check the prices on your end on motherboards, around here, MSI is what
you'd buy if you wanted to have the best, and Gigabyte is what you'd
buy if you wanted a stable cheap computer. Compared to MSI, Asus is
said to be one of the companies who drops quality to save money.

On processors, take a look at the latest multicore AMD processor (AMD
Athlon 64 x2 or something). Where I live, buying a multicore system
isn't worth it yet (I'm poor... used to live on Celerons in the past),
the newest singlecore AMD works great, is cheap and is the coolest CPU
in existance. The dualcore systems are just two cores on the same die,
while the production technologies and all are the same, so it should be
all good.

Processor sockets, look at AM2. It's DDR2 based and promisses future
compatibility to AM3 (DDR3). The memory bandwidth looks great there and
makes a big difference in system responsivnes mostly, so you might also
want to put high speed RAM there.
I've been looking around AM2 socket boards. One thing I noticed was
their lack of AGP slot. It appears that the PCI express slot has
replaced it. That means I have to dump my video cards and get a new
one.

Why have they made such drastic changes?

baddley
 
DustWolf said:
Check the prices on your end on motherboards, around here, MSI is what
you'd buy if you wanted to have the best, and Gigabyte is what you'd
buy if you wanted a stable cheap computer. Compared to MSI, Asus is
said to be one of the companies who drops quality to save money.

All that was true until Asus bought Gigabyte. Now I suspect that any
Asus/Gigabyte mainboard would be neither cheap nor stable
 
Nil said:
10% slight technical advantage + %90 planned obsolescence.

Kind of like the BTX idea that went nowhere (thankfully) as it was 0%
technical advantage and 100% planned obsolescence.
 
baddley said:
I've been looking around AM2 socket boards. One thing I noticed was
their lack of AGP slot. It appears that the PCI express slot has
replaced it. That means I have to dump my video cards and get a new
one.

Why have they made such drastic changes?

baddley

Core2Duo with AGP boards are available. That's what I've been looking at.
Want to continue using an All-in-Wonder.
 
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