Asus or Soltek for 939 board?

[boatillo]

I know the Asus a8v will perform well, stable, and probably nothing flashy - but how about the Soltek board? I have seen benchmarks showing it to be the fastest *stock* 939 via board available, it seems to have a working agp/pci lock now, and will OC all that I want a board to OC, is mucho more colorful than the asus...but I have never owned a Soltek before.

I hesistate because my last system ran gigabyte mb & video card...and lets just say both have suffered many unfixable hardware problems without any overclocking. I will never buy gigabyte again, I guess I don't want to buy a Soltek and have the same thing happen ya know?


Main points I guess are which has the better onboard LAN (as I will use that for my dsl) and does anyone know if a Zalman cnps7000-alcu will fit on the Soltek? Its not listed on their sheet, but it looks like there would be no problem...

 

[o1die]

Soltek makes good motherboards, but their customer support is minimal. I wrote them asking about direct rma's, and got no reply off their taiwan website.

 

[silverpig]

I chanced it with the soltek this time around too. Got the exact board you're thinking about getting. It's great. Board performs well. I've never owned a soltek before, and have only had this one a week maybe, but it's good so far.

 

[boatillo]

Hummm has anyone got proof that DFI will make a s939 board using the NF4 chipset BUT with AGP? Heck even a s939 NF3 with AGP from DFI...

 

[CraigRT]

Soltek mobos rule.... if they keep it up they will be the next Asus! their products are all awesome, rarely ever any complaints.

I have a K8AN2E-GR and I love it.. it's my 4th Soltek mainboard

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

The Soltek board is faster at stock speeds, but the ASUS is generally a better overclocker. boatillo, it's unclear if DFI will make an NF3 board but it's not looking good right now.

 

[imported_kitty]

Dear All,

There is a media claimed that they ovclocked the SL-K8TPro-939 up to 275MHz!!! That's great!!
Please check it out.
http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/printpage.php?id=337

Also Soltek support sevice is good, they always replied it within a day!! Good service!!