Best S939 nForce 3 Motherboard

[SickBeast]

Hi All,

Has anyone got a suggestion on an nForce 3 motherboard to pair with a 0.09um A64 3000+ (S939)?

Some input on 1GB DIMMs to pair with the system would also be great.

Thanks! 🙂

 

[bap4201]

what i have is currently the best. See sig:

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: bap4201
what i have is currently the best. See sig:

Awesome, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!

 

[RealityTime]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
Hi All,

Has anyone got a suggestion on an nForce 3 motherboard to pair with a 0.09um A64 3000+ (S939)?

Some input on 1GB DIMMs to pair with the system would also be great.

Thanks! 🙂

k8n neo2
😱

if you get a good flawless board the neo2 is best

 

[Zebo]

that's a big if

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Zebo
that's a big if

Yep. I don't really have brand loyalty, but I definately have brand disloyalty. After my experiences with MSI I will never buy another one of their products. Ever. No matter how good it is.

 

[Rhagz]

<3 my neo2.. not a single problem with it so far

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: Zebo
that's a big if

Yep. I don't really have brand loyalty, but I definately have brand disloyalty. After my experiences with MSI I will never buy another one of their products. Ever. No matter how good it is.

Well SB, if you have a fry's local or somplace else that sells it (so's you can Return and return and return if need be) then I would get the neo2. My observation is it's solid super high FSB capable, when it works. Some things to keep in mind:


-SATA ports 1 and 2 are not locked
-issues with ram slots 3&amp;4 not working very well
-if lock doesnt work set the agp speed to 67mhz to lock it
-cpu temperature reading not working correctly
-doesnt like ocz eb or BH-5 mem

 

[eagle101]

do you think they are making the neo2 better in the past few weeks and shipping them yet??????

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: Zebo
that's a big if

Yep. I don't really have brand loyalty, but I definately have brand disloyalty. After my experiences with MSI I will never buy another one of their products. Ever. No matter how good it is.

Well SB, if you have a fry's local or somplace else that sells it (so's you can Return and return and return if need be) then I would get the neo2. My observation is it's solid super high FSB capable, when it works.

If I have a deadline and the neo2 blows up, I'm basically screwed and can cost numerous people thousands of dollars for every day I'm late.

I'm looking into the Asus. Sounds like there are issues w/ the MSI aside from reliability anyways. Where is NF4 already!? 🙁

 

[PCBliss]

the newer MSI boards with the chipset made in korea should be better. Newegg got them in stock about an hour ago, so i ordered one hoping this would be a new one. I am replacing an A8V rev2, hoping the MSI can hit better HTT numbers

 

[Dravic]

If I have a deadline and the neo2 blows up, I'm basically screwed and can cost numerous people thousands of dollars for every day I'm late.

I'm looking into the Asus. Sounds like there are issues w/ the MSI aside from reliability anyways. Where is NF4 already!? 🙁

no offense, but if my time was that valuable to others, and i could cost that kind of financial impact to other people who depended on my work, I would not be using a consumer grade MB product from ANY of these vendors.

I would look into workstation class MB from a compnay like TYAN.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Dravic

If I have a deadline and the neo2 blows up, I'm basically screwed and can cost numerous people thousands of dollars for every day I'm late.

I'm looking into the Asus. Sounds like there are issues w/ the MSI aside from reliability anyways. Where is NF4 already!? 🙁

no offense, but if my time was that valuable to others, and i could cost that kind of financial impact to other people who depended on my work, I would not be using a consumer grade MB product from ANY of these vendors.

I would look into workstation class MB from a compnay like TYAN.

Unfortunately I have a budget. I have yet to have an Asus or Abit motherboard blow up on me. Tyan is great for multi-processors, but you only gain ~60% by going with 2 CPUs in a system. The superior route is to go with a DC setup with either a rackmount or multi-box setup.

The other problem w/ Tyan is that they don't have the overclocking options typically. If you can shave $600 from your system price by carefully and stably overclocking your CPU and memory, it leaves you that much more for your display and video card.

You're correct, but right now my budget is $4000CDN and that has to include quite a bit of stuff. Dual core is in the near future and will make a very nice upgrade for me in about a year. IMO this technology will kill the SMP market for quite some time, aside from the extreme power users and crazy web servers.

Basically if they give me an unlimited budget I'll purchase some stuff from NASA (unlikely scenario). Until then Asus should hopefully cut it for me.