Buying tonight- MSI k8n Neo2 platinum or Asus A8v

[PVD]

for my new system with an AMD 3500+ 90nm for Overclocking with 2 IDE WD Drives. I am getting a cpu/motherboard bundle from Monarch so it will be tested and updated. Appreciate your immediate help!!!!

 

[PVD]

I have heard about reliability issues with the NEo platinuim, but gazing at threads on here it seems the Asus is having just as many. The prebundled set is pre-tested by MOnarch so hopefully this will save me some pain!

 

[Xed]

my first neo2 was horrible. New one is running at 290 fsb stable with no other problems. Seems most who got a newer revision are happy with it

 

[eagle101]

gentleman of this fourm 1st of all happy thanksgiving to all of you:
i had the 1st neo2 board then i went and traded it for the a8v way better,yep still simple problems no dual channel tried everything......after a few weeks got the new neo2 ULTRA nf3 939...
big changes happened everything works perfect 1st time,and the on board sound system sounds way way better.there is nothing i cant do on this board....ive been doing everything you can except blow it up...
good luck in your decisions

 

[PaiN]

I've had both boards ...and I have to give a strong recomendation to the Asus.
The MSI was VERY problematic in my setup, the Asus was charmed

 

[PVD]

but PAIN, you have an Intel

 

[Stangs55]

I've haven't had one problem w/my A8V Rev2 board.

 

[tallman45]

Having 2 WD IDE drives then the A8V (3 IDE channels) will offer the opportunity to keep them on separate channels, separate from each other and your optical drive.

On the K8N Neo2 (2 IDE channels) you would need to employ a master/slave setup on 1 IDE channel creating a performance bottleneck

 

[PaiN]

Originally posted by: PVD
but PAIN, you have an Intel

I do....but I just recently rebuilt with an FX-53 on..get this, both the MSI K8N, K8T Neo2s and the Asus A8V-D rev2..The Asus was buy far the the best of the three.
If your woundering why I still have the Intel sig. its because in the end after a month of testing across all three boards...I decided I liked the P4EE @ 3.7ghz better, I know it sounds crazy, but my Intel setup is more stable and gives more consistant frames rates in all games and HTT can't be beat for multi apps.

 

[PVD]

How are the RAID controllers on each board?? I was thinking of doing a RAID setup with the 250 GB WD drives I bought last night.

 

[Tbirdkid]

what os are you running? if you are running linux, i would use the via. if using xp get the nf3.

 

[Thermalrock]

asus best brand msi worst brand. this question that shouldnt even be asked.