any ideas on a 754 board with Firewire?

[montag451]

Hi,
Am looking to get a 754 board for non-gaming system.

Using it for a bit of vid and photo editing.

Need to have firewire, and preferably SATA as well.

MUST be a nice friendly stable mobo, and not a nervous twitchy racehorse :shocked:



Thanx in advance

 

[montag451]

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[MarkM]

just go to newegg or another well stocked site site that lets you choose all mbs of a certain socket type & then a search w/in results on 1394. Voila, your list.

 

[jose]

http://www.newegg.com/app/view...tion=13-136-147&depa=0

Regards,
Jose

 

[Slaimus]

Onboard firewire usually uses the fairly slow VIA chipset. You are probably better off selecting a good board without FW, and buying a separate add-in card that uses a better chip (like the NEC or Agere/Lucent).

 

[montag451]

Onboard firewire usually uses the fairly slow VIA chipset. You are probably better off selecting a good board without FW, and buying a separate add-in card that uses a better chip (like the NEC or Agere/Lucent).


Fair comment .

Thank you.

 

[montag451]

Thank you.

Looks like it is between
Lanparty [DFI] and Abit NF8

Any suggestions?

 

[slash196]

Lanparty is the best socket 754 mobo out there, hands-down.

 

[shortylickens]

I would like to promote Gigabyte.
I have a K8NS Pro and it has been good to me. Not twitchy if you dont try to overclock.
It could be considered an enthusiast board, which you may not want. But I always go with a good MB and then skimp on CPU if I want to save money. It keeps my heartburn down later on.
Get a Sempron or cheap A64 if you like.

 

[montag451]

ok,
Lanparty, Abit NF8, or Gigabyte K8NS Pro

Thanks for the input -