Best socket 939 mobo?

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Suzaku

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I am not a raid person to be honest. I don't think they have brought it to full potential yet. Small HDs and what not.

What's better the SLI models or this Ultra? People seem to be torn apart between the two. Can you tell me the difference in performance other than the fact that SLI is better for video cards.
 
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bjc112

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Is the DFI board with the nForce 3 chipset have good overclocking potential as well?
 
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Painman

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Originally posted by: bjc112
Is the DFI board with the nForce 3 chipset have good overclocking potential as well?
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Yes, all the LANParty boards are designed with tweaking in mind.
 
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Suzaku

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So can someone answer my question about the difference between the Ultra and SLI. Which will be the best way to go. I am leaning towards the Ultra because newegg has it for a rocking price.

Also do you think it's worth upgrading now from a socket 745 Asus K8V SE Deluxe with A64 3200+ or should I wait till the next gen.
 
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ribbon13

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Next gen is gonna be a while, and expensive. The Toledo chips will make going socket 939 quite worthwhile. I'd say go for it, as you can sell your current mobo and cpu to make up some of the cost.
 
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The only difference between Lanparty Ultra and SLI is the support of nVidia SLI in the SLI version. That's it. Nothing else.
 
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Tiorapatea

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Originally posted by: classy
Not even close. As a matter of fact the Asus boards have had problems across the board. There is not much debate, the DFI boards are without question a first choice among most.
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I disagree. The DFI boards are undoubtedly the best bet for extreme overclockers. But aside from that, there is little to choose between boards in terms of features or quality control or stability. Frankly, all the nforce4 boards are looking pretty raw right now. I have ordered an Asus A8N-E for a friend, partly because he doesn't need SLI, partly because I believe it may have a few problems ironed out as it has come out later than the SLI boards, partly because the nforce4 chipset is in a better position than on the DFI board if you want to change the cooler to something passive, partly because it will give him enough of an OC with value memory, ... I am not saying it was an easy choice. Tthere is definitely room for debate.

Edit: Just re-read the OP. DFI, without a doubt.
 
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DFI = good OCing from what I've read. As someone else said, thats about it. You can go to DFI forums all over the web and read about BIOS issues and such. In my opinion, Epox boards are the way to go for excellent BIOS's, OC'ing, and layout, and just overall thought process going into the motherboard design and execution. They make MSI look like such utter garbage that you'd have to be totally uninformed and really a complete noob to even think of buying something they make when it comes out without getting some user experiences collected from various forums. On the other hand, I feel great about buying an Epox product the day its released knowing it will be well supported and generally work without any strange problems at all.

Some people think DFI's are now the holy grail, but I think a lot of that comes from Anandtech's massive coverage and promotion of their products, so much that I'd rather avoid them because it makes me sick when that kind of thing happens.

Now that I've contributed all the useful info you will likely get in this thread, let me just say I'm so tired of threads like this day after day:
"best 939 board"
"whats the best AMD64 mobo?", etc...

You'll be making a decision based on a couple stupid biased posts people make to your thread. Spend a little extra time and read more specific forums on the web that pertain to the motherboard you're interested in, see what the major problems/hurdles are, and then make an informed decision. Seems like Anandtech forums are filled with a bunch of brainless noobs posting redundant questions these days.
 
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Originally posted by: classy
Originally posted by: ivantai
A8N-SLI Deluxe is best
I buy ASUS P4P800SE in newegg.I am satisfied.
A powerfull mobo,easy to OC
so I think ASUS is the best

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-517&depa=0
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Not even close. As a matter of fact the Asus boards have had problems across the board. There is not much debate, the DFI boards are without question a first choice among most.
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i tend to agree, own an ultra board myself.

Be warned tho...you could spend the next 5 years tweaking this board :)
 
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Suzaku

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Thank you for your feedback. I assure you I am not that ignorant and I did look around before I posted it. I figured out myself that MSI is definately out of the question here because all the problems.

I read a little about the DFI and Asus boards and they both may have problems in some cases. The asus boards seem to have a larger range of problems as far as I saw. The DFI problems all seem to be fixed by flashing it to the latest firmware.

I would of went with DFI based from previous feedback I read here. The new deal on newegg is also a big incentive to get this board. However, I am an Asus man myself so I wanted to see some feedback if one needed to compare them directly.

I think it's obvious now that DFI takes the cake as far as bang per buck. So I am gonna go ahead and order it. If I am not satisfied I'll get the Asus and that will be the end of that.

Epox on the other hand I didn't hear enough good feedback about to consider yet. I am sure it might be a great board but not as common. It will be easier to get some help and infomation around here if I get the Asus of DFI .. after all they can't be that much worse than the Epox
 
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Promethply

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I heard that the ABIT maestro (not sure what his name is) moved to DFI, and design the new DFI NF4 board, so it's not surprising if this board overclocks very well, just like how the old ABIT mobos that used Intel BX chipset overclocks.
 
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