AGP Mobo for Venice 3000?

[teddyv]

Hi Folks - upgrading from a Dell 8100 and wanted to keep my AGP card (seems like there is no real benefit currently with PCe). Definitely going with the AMD Venice 3000 & a gig of ram, and will be doing no overclocking or RAID. Just need a rock-stable board with at least one onboard firewire. Plan on running with 2 pata HD's, two DVD drives, and at least one SATA to use as the boot drive (hope to add a second soon.) Going to be using it for a mix of Ultima Online, various MS Office, some web dev and some video work.

Any help appreciated.

 

[imported_TheRipper]

An Asus A8V Deluxe. On newegg right now for $118.

I just set up a machine with the board.

http://www.newegg.com/OldVersion/app/vi...desc.asp?description=13-131-510&DEPA=1

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: TheRipper
An Asus A8V Deluxe. On newegg right now for $118.

I just set up a machine with the board.

http://www.newegg.com/OldVersion/app/vi...desc.asp?description=13-131-510&DEPA=1

Yep. Should be good with that board

 

[teddyv]

Is there much of a difference between the VIA K8T800 and the nForce 3 chipsets?

I noticed a nice MSI AGP board with the nForce 3 that is right at my budget limit:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813130468

I also noticed a Soltek board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813180064
that seemed very similiar to the ASUS (but no LAN chipset and AC97 Codec instead of the ASUS' Realtek ALC850.

I did notice the ASUS & Soltek boards have an additional Additional PATA - does this mean they support 6 pata drives (am I right about that, am I forced to have the final two in a raid?)

I also notice the ASUS and MSI boards have a LAN Chipset - do I need that?

Here is the three-way comparison:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductCo...10%2CN82E16813130468%2CN82E16813180064

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Neo2 platinum's good for overclocking, there have been lots of reported problems with the board but it's nearly a year old now, so getting a new bios update should fix them. Neo2 has the most features.
Soltek's actually THE fastest board on stock speeds, but they use chinese capacitors.
But ASUS's generally last longer (this isn't always the case) and are generally more stable.

-TPG

 

[imported_TheRipper]

The Asus board will OC as much as your hardware can stand. I have just come from an Nforce3 and the Via boards are under rated IMO.

Why do you think I left Nforce? Too many problems with them. Asus boards are solid and proven, DFI boards are great OC boards but they have their issues also.

If you ever picked up an A8V Deluxe you can feel the quality. The damned thing must weigh 5 LBS.