Chaintech nf4 Ultra headsup?

[wheels]

I am building my first comp with the chaintech nv4 ultra board. Is there any widespread problems with the board I should know about. I want everything to go well. I don't plan to overclock so it being not much of an overclocker is no problem for me. Any advice to get me up and running without hangups? Will I have to mess with any BIOS flashes? Is it 24pin or 20 pin? Also, what is some value 2.5 ram that will run in dual channel that goes good with the board that I can get at newegg? Links? Thanks.

amd 64 3200 .90nm
chaintech nv4 ultra
512x2 value ram
120gb seagate sata
2 opitcal drives
audigy 2
geforce 6600gt (leadtek or asus)
fortron 500w blue storm

EDIT: One more thing, will I need to do any special installation of the SATA or will it just detect it and thats the end, I am not setting up a Raid or anything. Ihear stuff about getting a floppy pressing f6 and all that stuff and Im confused.

 

[mrscintilla]

the widespread problem is that it's not in stock enough in store.. you are fine, my man. But I don't like the fortron blue storm psu. one online review showed the insides of the psu and the compnenets are cheap and few..

 

[Demo24]

dont get the Asus 6600gt. its not worth it get the Leadtek.

 

[Jeffyboy]

6600GT leadtek or MSI seem like a good bet to me. Which-ever is available. I am too chicken to buy version ZERO of a motherboard tho..lol. I think I might wait a while... but honestly... I've been considering the Intel 915P chipset on a board... it still does NCQ and PCIe and everything.. plus Hi.def. audio. Might be the thing really... I just wanna go PCIe.

Jeff

 

[jbh129]

I am interested in what nvidia will till on their intel chipset. I wonder if it will have DD live.

 

[Insomniak]

Leadtek 6600GT is by far the best of the crop...

 

[wheels]

anyone else got any answers to my other questions, i am getting the leadtek instead

 

[rpmcrash]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Leadtek 6600GT is by far the best of the crop...

its working for me .

 

[stelleg151]

Working for me except gigabit lan has gone out, heard one other guy had the problem too.

 

[rpmcrash]

Originally posted by: stelleg151
Working for me except gigabit lan has gone out, heard one other guy had the problem too.

I see you found N tune also @ 2.5. I dont think that is accurate when fsb in bios is saying 220 .

have you run any benches.just curious. im still playing in bios

 

[Samus]

Originally posted by: stelleg151
Working for me except gigabit lan has gone out, heard one other guy had the problem too.

I am having VERY etatic problems with it also. It doesn't flake out too often unless I'm copying a boatload of files (2GB+) but on my Gigabit network it performs unreasonably slow compared to my other workstations that have DLINK PCI Gigabit cards.

In Sandra the PCI cards on my other computers get around 40MB/sec throughput, the Chaintech always scores in the 19MB/sec area AND STRANGELY TAKES A LONG TIME TO COMPLETE A BENCHMARK.

Serious lag issues are amidst.

 

[Trizzay]

Originally posted by: wheels
I am building my first comp with the chaintech nv4 ultra board. Is there any widespread problems with the board I should know about. I want everything to go well. I don't plan to overclock so it being not much of an overclocker is no problem for me. Any advice to get me up and running without hangups? Will I have to mess with any BIOS flashes? Is it 24pin or 20 pin? Also, what is some value 2.5 ram that will run in dual channel that goes good with the board that I can get at newegg? Links? Thanks.

amd 64 3200 .90nm
chaintech nv4 ultra
512x2 value ram
120gb seagate sata
2 opitcal drives
audigy 2
geforce 6600gt (leadtek or asus)
fortron 500w blue storm

EDIT: One more thing, will I need to do any special installation of the SATA or will it just detect it and thats the end, I am not setting up a Raid or anything. Ihear stuff about getting a floppy pressing f6 and all that stuff and Im confused.

Wow, I am building almost this exact same system! Same cpu, board, ram, and vid card. Have you been able to find the Chaintech board in stock anywhere? All of the places I usually buy from are out of stock right now. As for ram, I think you should go with the Corsair Value Select. This is what I'm getting:

Here

 

[Wyck]

I'm using Corsair VS in my VNF4/Ultra and it works great. I've only got a single 512mb stick so I'm not running dual channel (yet).