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Choose the mobo!

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ChiPCGuy

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I am building another PC for a friend, and he is stuck on either ASUS or ABIT. I cannot convince him to go with either the 9NPA+ Ultra or the AOpen board--even those are proven stable solutions. No need for firewire. Possibly dual core down the road. He games.

He is not going to do SLI. He does not want to spend over $115 on the mobo.

I have used a ASUS A8N-E in the past, and the machine it is in is currently stable.

So, what would you guys go with -- either the A8N-E, or the ABIT KN8 Ultra. The ABIT board is not really proven yet, although it is based upon the AN8-Ultra to some extent, which has given some people trouble. Although the KN8 Ultra is a second gen board, so ABIT may have made some improvements. I am curious about the KN8 Ultra, but don't want to risk it on a build for someone other than myself. The ABIT is also $16 less. Both boards appear to have the same feature set, so is the ASUS really worth $16 more?

Your thoughts?

Edited to say: this guy is opinionated. He is not up on the latest tech, though. His knowledge stops at the AXP days. That is where he formed his opinions. Originally he wanted MSI as possibility as well, but I managed to dissuade him from that one as I refuse to use MSI because of the trouble I have had with them. He doesn't really have the time to build his own machine and put the research into it that I can/willing to do. He just doesn't fully trust my judgement even though I have built 40+ A64 machines! He is not used to hearing that the Tier1 manufacturers are getting lots of misses as opposed to hits lately, and the Tier2's such as EPoX, Chaintech, AOpen, etc. appear to be making truly good boards these days! I should just tell him to go Dell 🙂
 
Originally posted by: 1Dark1Sharigan1
The Asus . . . Abit has some good boards but recently they are well, meh . . .
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Thanks, I am leaning ASUS as well based on my previous build. If I choose the wrong mobo for him, I will NEVER hear the end of it....

Any others want to chime in?
 
Thanks for the replies thus far. Question-- I am no board engineer, but why exactly does that ABIT have TWICE as many caps and mosfets on it as the ASUS board? I realize that far more goes into board design than the number/type/quality of caps, but holy crap that is a massive difference in build strategies.
 
I'd choose Asus. I always knew Asus were very good. Abit is good, but they tend to overvolt for no reason at all (which really really pissses me off). Take example, my NF8 board. :/
 
I supose the differents lies in the circuitry. Some designs are more efficient and require less use of CAPS and mofets aka equivalent circuits.

Go for the Asus.
 
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