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CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - $84.99 at Newegg

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najames

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This has gigabit LAN and should now have a chipset cooler. SATA II.

http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813152049#DetailSpecs

Add the $83 Corsair Value RAM listed elsewhere and you have the start of a cheap PC. I think Newegg, Chiefvalue, and ZZF are duking it out Value RAM prices.

I also bought 2 AMD64 3000+ from Monarch for $113 each, watch if they have another sale.

Total cost per PC is only $281 so far. I need some CHEAP video cards and SATA II drives for a server and a test box. Muuaahhh!!
 
One review I read said that they had fried the chipset due to heat pushing 300HTT. Of course, it could have been a poorly mounted HS to begin with, but it being only passively cooled does not surprise me. The NF4 runs hot, essentially a smaller CPU(in terms of heat output). I'd stick a fan on there right away.
 
This is a good mobo if you read reviews. Its one of the cheapest for 939 (if not the cheapest). Its confirmed, i bought one from new egg for 92 dollars one and a half week ago and it DOES come with active cooling on the chip. Thats the only complaint i herd is that it gets a little hot but people say the fan really keeps it cool. As for frying the chipset, i've herd that it gets hot too, but these new revised ones come with active cooling so problem solved. As for overclocking,

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29&threadid=1484167

and more info..

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1486615&enterthread=y

 
The price has been lowered to $84 again (Month End Special). Just ordered one. Also, a bit OT but does anyone have suggestions for a moderately priced HSF (is the ARCTIC COOLING FREEZER64 any good?).
 
I have two of them.

The only "problem" I had was that I needed to update the BIOS before Ubuntu would install on one board, the other was happy as it was. Both have the same Winny 3000 CPU. I ended up putting on XP, updating the bios, then installed Ubuntu and it sailed right through.
 
Chiefvalue has it for $84, free shipping. They also have the MSI K8N Neo4-F (non-Ultra chipset) for $83 and the VNF4 (non-Ultra) for $80. Which one sounds better? Are SATA-II and Activearmor worth it?
 
I used Hitachi's drive tool and tried to turn on/off the 1.5 and 3.0Gps settings and ran some benchmarks with SATA II drives on the Chaintechs, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I have 2 80gig Hitachi SataII and 2 160gig SataII drives. They are all fast drives it seems.

My problem is what to do with all my PCs, and I am going to Tampa to get both AMD Tour bundles, DOH!!! Need Registered RAM and new PSUs now for a dual CPU setup, I must be a tard. Oh well, I need to learn about building the dual setups and I couldn't resist the good deal on the other AMD64 setup.
 
i have one of these. pretty good board for o/c even. i got my week 7 2005 winchester 3000+ to 2400 at 1.6 volts on it. this is identical to the much more expensive bfg nf4 ultra board, (chaintech builds it for them) . make sure you get the newer bioses the older ones are missing some features (even the latest one has some problems setting particular voltages). it is very stable though.

 
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