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Best 754 motherboard?

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AshKetchum

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My old board just died so I need a replacement. I don't want to spend the money to upgrade to a 939 so I just want the best 754 I can find. The nForce 3 250GB chipset looked good to me and I've been considering these two motherboards, the Abit NF8-V and the Asus K8N-E. Which of the two would you get, or is their another board I should consider? Thanks.

Abit
Asus
 
If you're looking for S754...

I assume you want the NF3-250Gb boards for the AGP slot right? Meh.. if that's the case, stopgap yourself with a Radeon XPRESS board or GeForce 6100 board, use the onboard video until you can get a decent PCIe video card.
 
AshKetchum, welcome to the forums.

What are your current system specs, such as CPU, dead mobo, video card? Knowing those things will help us assess the best choice replacement.
 
Thanks!

I have an A64 2800 that was at 2.25, 1GB PC3200, 9800 Pro@XT speeds, Chaintech VNF3 250 (dead). My power supply is only 350W but it's an Antec and it was working fine before for about a year. I've tried the PSU in other machines and it worked. The reason I am hesitant to buy a 939 motherboard or any board that won't have AGP is I was planning my next major upgrade to be after Vista is released. I just don't see the point when my current setup was working fine for what I do, light gaming, mostly just using the internet now. Right now I am consider the Gigabyte GA-K8U, it would be $50 shipped. Would I be able to OC the same and have the same overall performance? Would a NF3 250GB chipset perform better? Thanks for the help.
 
I don't think that ULi chipset has AGP lock. Here's an idea for you... buy a Fry's/Outpost Sempron/ECS combo. One of two boards available is an ECS NFORCE3-A that many people have had great success with clocking to the BIOS maximum of 250MHz HTT/FSB. That would put your CPU at the exact speed it used to run at. The combo has been as cheap as $70 with a Sempron 2600/2800+, and often around $80 with an OEM Sempron 3100+. What you can do is get one of these cheap combos and sell the Sempron CPU. I'm sure that you can get at least $30-40 for the CPU which would offset quite a bit of the cost of the motherboard.

Such a combo would give you exactly what you are looking for, ability to use all your parts at what they are capable of running at, while being as cheap as possible to save you money... that you'll end up wasting on Vista. 😀

Heck, if you got such a combo and it came with a Palermo chip, I'd be first in line with a $30 offer for it. 😉
 
GA-K8NS PRO FTW...I have one of these board and they are excellent value, have heaps of features and overclock really well...and best of all the have AGP..which was a big help as I had recently forked out a small fortune for my ASUS 6800GT and didn't really want to ditch it when I upgraded from my AXP 3000+ to a A64 3000+ (before you say what was the point of such an upgrade...a A64 3000+ is mile faster than a AXP 3000+)
 
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