Best AM2 Board

[tmmercer]

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best all around AM2 socket board? SLI is not needed. Ideally I'd like to spend around 100.

 

[TomMe]

I'm going for the MSI K9N Platinum. Don't know if it's the best all around though.

Some reviews:
http://hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=1923
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mai...-sli-platinum-nf570ultra-nf570sli.html
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/5000+FX62/index.htm

 

[pkme2]

Newegg has ASUS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131011
Sorry, its SLI and over your budget.
Economically priced
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...0921489+4027&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=22
Asus makes great reliable boards

 

[Golgatha]

Here's my vote for worst.

It actually looks very nice, but I can't fathom why they put the passive northbridge cooler right exactly behind the PCIe 1x slot rendering it completely useless. Why even have it on the board if you're going to block it?

 

[Basilisk]

Here's one to stay clear of until its problems are fixed: ASUS M2NPV-VM Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 615. Customer reviews at NE are awful!

pkme2: Asus "usually" makes reliable boards!

 

[thestain]

Gigabyte would have been my favorite if only they had not put that first pci-e x1 slot where it really will stuggle to be used.. but.. I still like it better than the top Asus board.. where you get your SATA ports bloced in SLI and.. only have one pci and one pci-e if you are lucky..

MSI looks interesting.. i like the option of higher quality, lower noise.. be nice to have for a tv tuner card..

I am thinking AM2 will need a few more months to mature.. so.. buyer beware.. I am planning on staying with the old Socket 939 or throwing my concerns about Possessed Computing.. you know the "trusted Platform modules in all the nForce 5 and Ati 32oo chipsets and all the AM2 cpus, except maybe the Semrons..to the wind and getting a nice fast fully certified Conroe board.. AM2 and whatever AMD is coming up with in the next few weeks and months will not match up.. so if you want to go AM2, I have read nVidia is going to upgrade its chipset and AMD will have much better processors after they have made the switch to 65nm.. until then.. why AM2.. no performance gain for the most part unless you spend a ton of money on memory.. $$275 is minimum to spend on 2 GB of ram to beat what you can get performance wise on the old Socket 939.

So.. AM2 motherboards can not be cheap enough.. imo.. not worth it yet.

The Stain

 

[MegaWorks]

DFI CFX3200-M2R

It's an ATI Xpress 3200 and SB600 chipsets.