Athlon 64 3200+ AX / 2x512MB Corsair cl2 / ???Board??

[Rathos]

Hello,

I am new to this board and hope to find information to help me decide for a well equipped and stable motherboard.
The planned system configuration is as follows:

cpu AMD Athlon 64 3200+ AX
RAM 2x512MB Corsair TWINX 3200C2 (2,3,3,6)
AGP ATI X800XT PE
HD 2xSATA 120GB (Raid 0+1), 1xIDE 40GB


Right now I think I will have to decide between one of the following boards:

MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R
Asus K8N-E Deluxe nForce3
Asus K8V SE Deluxe K8T800

My priority definetely is to have a stable system with the speed you can expect without overclocking.

Please share your thoughts and experiences with me, man-e-thanx in advance..

 

[Rathos]

Hello out there (again)

Does anyone have good/bad experiences with one of these boards? I can purchase them for about the same money and their specs are comparable.
But what about experiences with different RAMs or Harddisk configurations?

What other boards can you recommend for a system like that?

I apologize if I broke any board rules by lightly starting a topic...

 

[Koen]

MSI K8T neo-fis2r
Athlon 64 3200+ (revision sh7-cg)
RAM 2x512 MB Corsair CMX512-3200C2
ASUS ATI X800Pro
Seagate 40GB IDE hd
Maxtor 120 GB SATA hd
Audigy 2

I've had a lot of problems with this configuration. For starters: don't install you os on a sata drive. I've had a lot of re-installs because of this (registry corruption). Since I installed windows on the ide-drive, the os works fine. I still have problems when playing games (Doom3, Soldiers, PoP, Sims 2: they all crash often, sometimes with reboot). I don't know whether the problems are related to the motherboard or graphics card. Updating to newer ATI drivers sometimes reduces the number of crashes. I don't think the specific graphics card is the cause for this, since I also tried a saphire R9800xt, with the same problems.
For the rest I have a lot of "bad crc-checks" (or something like that) when installing different kinds of applications (downloaded demo's, jdk, zip-files,...).

I have no idea what exactly causes all my problems (I'm not an expert at all). Just letting you know my experience. Should somebody know possible causes for this, please post them here.

 

[masshass81]

Asus should be more stable than MSI, get the cheaper one or whichever has the features that you like.

 

[kxm9976]

What about DFI Lanparty UT 250?
I was told to stay away from MSI. on the other side Asus is very good, I am jsut getting the DFI for the features and more oc'ing potential in the future.