Asus K8V a good A64 board?

[high]

Getting an A64 3200+ and Asus K8V for $220 Canadian MINUS $100 MIR (I LOVE AMD). So I'm definiltey grabbing it along with an X800XT PE. My question is: is this Asus board decent? I have read reviews, blah blah blah, but reviews don't state all the little things that tick us off about mobos. So please comment if you have it and if I should keep it/sell it and grab a better board.

Thanks

 

[mAsTAd]

i heard the k8v is a great board for the amd 64 series. And about that graphics card (wow) , would the processor bottleneck it a litte. (not sure about that)

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: high
Getting an A64 3200+ and Asus K8V for $220 Canadian MINUS $100 MIR (I LOVE AMD). So I'm definiltey grabbing it along with an X800XT PE. My question is: is this Asus board decent? I have read reviews, blah blah blah, but reviews don't state all the little things that tick us off about mobos. So please comment if you have it and if I should keep it/sell it and grab a better board.

Thanks

I am in a very similar situation myself, & i think i am going to keep it & try to sell one of my older rigs.

My current rig is similar to yours, & i really don't need a new computer, but the retail access deal was too good to pass up.

Just out of curiousity though, are you talking about the retail access deal?

Cause it's $179 US after $100 US rebate.
That work's out to be about $380 Cdn - $130 Mail-in-Rebate = $250ish Cdn


Edit: that is an Asus K8V SE Deluxe

 

[Markfw]

It doesn't overclock real well, due to no AGP/PCI lock, but other than that, it's great !

 

[high]

woops your right its 250ish CDN after rebate and yes it's the Retail Access

 

[cptCuervo]

I thought that the AGP lock was to be fixed on the new BIOS update.. Is this true?

 

[Dman877]

The K8V does NOT have a pci/agp lock nor will it ever. However, that didn't stop mine from running fine up to 227x10. I'm not sure what is limiting me now though, could be my pc3200, no agp lock, could be cpu, I dunno at this point.

I'm sure Asus will be releasing a K8V Pro soon though and the K8T800 Pro chipset does have the agp/pci lock.

 

[AmeenR]

I had my worries/doubts about this mobo, until I got my system up and running with utter ease. To top it off, tom's hardware found the K8V Deluxe to be the most compatible many different sitcks of memory. The VIA chipset most likely be the weakpoint in my eyes, mainly to the overclocker in mind. No pci/agp lock does suck...Big deal...so you cant even really O/C the current run of A64's much anyways, youre not missing out on much. Plus the processor is going to be the last bottle neck when trying to eek out more fps in games when you are running good memory and a good GPU. For 120 bucks shipped from new egg, this board is a great platform to start a Athlon64 with!!