Is this board good? Newegg is having a special for this board at $99. I wonder if I should get it if I am going for moderate OC? Thanks.
Chaintech nForce3 250 VNF3-250
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Schadenfroh
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Does it have a AGP/PCI lock that works? one of my friends is asking about it, and its not 99, it has a 20 instant rebate if you notice, ITS 80!
I don't know if it has a working AGP lock that's why I wonder if I should get it since there isn't any review I can find in Anandtech or Tom's. Thanks.
Anyone else has comment? Thanks.
Anyone else has comment? Thanks.
As far as I know EVERY nForce3 250 should have agp/pci lock. Even if the board did not have it, a Bios update could fix that. But I would bet that it does have the lock in place.
This seems a relatively cheap nForce3 250 board so if it has all the feature of a NF3 250 then I think it's a good buy and I would like to get it. Just wonder if you know if it misses anything or if it's good for OC? Thanks.
I'm looking at this board too. I don't care about overclocking, I'm just concerned about stability and compatibility (I normally buy Intel boards for that reason).
I know Chaintech's Nforce 3 150 board was one of the only Athlon 64 boards that didn't have compatibility problems with any of the RAM Tom's Hardware tried in their tests, so that's promising. It's just that I had such an awful experience with an Athlon Thunderbird on a craptastic VIA chipset that I'm REALLY scared to try another Athlon (even though I'm sure the CPU itself was never the problem).
But geez, it's $80 cheaper than an Intel 875, and the CPU is significantly more powerful at everything *I* use it for (don't do much media encoding, to put it mildly). But I don't want another experience where I'm patching the damn thing twice a week for half a year, and never get total stability and compatibility.
Chaintech DOES have the board up on their website now...it was a little creepy when they didn't earlier in the week. Dang, wish their was a review from someone about it's stability. I think I may have a 3200+ A64 in my future. I could almost get a 3400+ with the cost savings versus that Intel board.
I know Chaintech's Nforce 3 150 board was one of the only Athlon 64 boards that didn't have compatibility problems with any of the RAM Tom's Hardware tried in their tests, so that's promising. It's just that I had such an awful experience with an Athlon Thunderbird on a craptastic VIA chipset that I'm REALLY scared to try another Athlon (even though I'm sure the CPU itself was never the problem).
But geez, it's $80 cheaper than an Intel 875, and the CPU is significantly more powerful at everything *I* use it for (don't do much media encoding, to put it mildly). But I don't want another experience where I'm patching the damn thing twice a week for half a year, and never get total stability and compatibility.
Chaintech DOES have the board up on their website now...it was a little creepy when they didn't earlier in the week. Dang, wish their was a review from someone about it's stability. I think I may have a 3200+ A64 in my future. I could almost get a 3400+ with the cost savings versus that Intel board.
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This board should be as good or better then the last as it is NOT that much different from the old chip as this one doe snot have the GB ethernet, firewall, etc...
That and the memory controller is ont eh CPU so if they got it right last time this should be just as good or better.
This board should be as good or better then the last as it is NOT that much different from the old chip as this one doe snot have the GB ethernet, firewall, etc...
That and the memory controller is ont eh CPU so if they got it right last time this should be just as good or better.
.I was thinking about the board should be fine sine the nForce3 150 version of the Chaintech board received good reviews. If the only difference between VNF3-250 and the ZNF3-250 is only the Gigabyte Lan then I would definitely jump on this deal since I don't do much local network transferred between two systems! This would be a very good deal if the board can overclock as good as the nForce3 150 version of the Chaintech board.
It will be good to have some reviews to boost my confidence of getting this board. Any comment? Thanks for everyone's help!
It will be good to have some reviews to boost my confidence of getting this board. Any comment? Thanks for everyone's help!
Mine should be in a day or so, but I won't be able to give much info, since I need all my other parts too. I have been holding off buying everything until I can get a better deal, especially on RAM.
Does anyone that has this board know if there is a firewire header so that you can connect front case firewire ports?
Also,
I have an asus mobo and you can flash the bios through windows with a utility. Can the same be done for a chaintech mobo. I'm considering the VNF3-250 which is available now, but am interested to see if it has a windows bios flashing capability?
Can bios flashes for chaintech mobo's be done through windows?
I have an asus mobo and you can flash the bios through windows with a utility. Can the same be done for a chaintech mobo. I'm considering the VNF3-250 which is available now, but am interested to see if it has a windows bios flashing capability?
Can bios flashes for chaintech mobo's be done through windows?
Only the $170 has firewire. The one for $99 does not. I know it says it does but look at the board, there is NO VIA firewire chip on it. But look at the higher end board and there it is.
I know what the VIA firewire chip looks like, and I don't see it anywhere on the $99 board.
I know what the VIA firewire chip looks like, and I don't see it anywhere on the $99 board.
Out of curiosity, why would it matter whether or not you could flash the BIOS in Windows? Isn't just as easy to do it from the command line?
I will be getting this board later today and try to remember to post back whether or not the board has firewire...
Schnieds
That would be 89 shipped. I just got mine and it has no firewire...big deal...but I don't see the floppy for setting up the raid...hmmm.
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