Motherboard choices?

[llwyd]

Im saving up at the moment so i can finally get myself something towards the high end system side of things, my XP3200 just doesnt cut it

So iv been looking around and iv settled on an AMD64 X2 3800, found one for £211. But iv come a bit stuck on motherboards. My critera is basically

1. Has to be 939 and support X2s (obviously)

2. Has to have an AGP slot seeing as iv just forked out for a nice new AGP graphics card

3. Have 4 DIMMs in dual chanel

4. Be relatively overclockable

Thats it really, Im looking at these two:

Here

and

Here

Any oppinions?

 

[FarFarAway]

Dont get the Gigabyte, don't get the abit

Get a board with an NVIDIA NFroce 3 chipset

I think you'll find DFI is a particular favourite on this site: The NF3-D is a good board

Asus do some decent NF-3 boards and for value EpoX do a great NForce 4 board too

 

[FragTek]

The 9NDA3+ from EPoX is the board you're looking for mate... Has everything you've listed and is one hell of an overclocker. I got a 1ghz OC out of my 3000+ Winchester on air with that board, that's nearly unheard of.

Do a search and check it out, that board is insanely wicked pimp.

 

[FarFarAway]

Overclockers UK sell EpoX, and www.aria.co.uk and a few others

 

[llwyd]

cheers guys. I wish i could afford a DFI but the X2 is pushing my student budget as it is

Oh, and i noticed the X2 3800 has only 512 L2 cache, is this per core or overall?

 

[FarFarAway]

Thats per core mate

The EpoX should be perfect for you mate....don't get Gigabyte or Abit

Especially not VIA chips

 

[llwyd]

Thats per core mate

The EpoX should be perfect for you mate....don't get Gigabyte or Abit

Especially not VIA chips

Thank god for that, was concerned for a minute lol. Yea im using a Via chipset now and its not great. What price do you think i could get on a 2 month old XP3200 and an MSI KT880 delta? cos i imagine ill need to flog them to get a new power supply

 

[FragTek]

Thank god for that, was concerned for a minute lol. Yea im using a Via chipset now and its not great. What price do you think i could get on a 2 month old XP3200 and an MSI KT880 delta? cos i imagine ill need to flog them to get a new power supply

What PSU are you using now mate? It doesn't require much power on an AGP setup. I used a $30 "PowerUp!" psu to get my 3000+ and 6800GT running at fully stable overclocked speeds.

 

[llwyd]

Im using an Optronix true 400W. Got 2 optical drives, floppy drive, 5 fans and 2 pci cards ontop of the system componants. Im looking at the Hiper type-R 580W modular

 

[Ham]

ASRock 939Dual SATAII .

Not the best clocker ever but stable and gives you the option to go PCI-E whenever you like. And if it actualy works the option to go M2 via future CPU slot.

We me and llwyd talked about this for about 2 hrs in school today but nevermind...

 

[llwyd]

EpoX 9NDA3+ or a DFI LANPARTY UT nF3 ULTRA-D?

 

[FarFarAway]

The NF3 with the newer hardware revision (all should be by now)

 

[llwyd]

(all should be by now)

so your saying theres no difference?

 

[FarFarAway]

Basically I'd get the DFI is what I'm on about

 

[Dav0s]

im sure NF4 doesnt support agp :S

 

[FarFarAway]

No...no it doesn't.

NF3 does tho :eh:

 

[Dav0s]

Has to have an AGP slot seeing as iv just forked out for a nice new AGP graphics card

Get a board with an NVIDIA NFroce 3 chipset

u recommended him an NF4...i didnt think nf4 supported agp

 

[FarFarAway]

Dont get the Gigabyte, don't get the abit

Get a board with an NVIDIA NFroce 3 chipset

I think you'll find DFI is a particular favourite on this site: The NF3-D is a good board

Asus do some decent NF-3 boards and for value EpoX do a great NForce 4 board too

eh?? ROFL

 

[Dav0s]

u just edited it you bastard lol

 

[FarFarAway]

u just edited it you bastard lol

I feel offended you'd suggest I'd do anything of the sort