Going to buy a Athlon X2 4800+ I need advice!

[Markfw]

Based on many years experience, I would go with ASUS (any NF4 board from them). ASUS has the best bios support I have ever seen, and that the main reason. For an early adopter, good support is the best reason to go with them.

 

[Aries64]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Based on many years experience, I would go with ASUS (any NF4 board from them). ASUS has the best bios support I have ever seen, and that the main reason. For an early adopter, good support is the best reason to go with them.

I like Asus boards too, although I've had good experiences with Micronics, American Megatrends, and MSI of late.

I think that Markfw900's suggestion of the Asus board for the client is a very solid one. High build quality, excellent warranty, and good tech support means for the client means theoretically less hassle for you.

BTW Markfw900 - sweet Opteron duallie you have there. Years ago I ran dual Pentium Pro 200/512Ks' in an American Megatrends Merlin DP board with 128MB of ECC EDO RAM. That was the sh1t back then! I only wish someone offered a Socket 939 board with 64-bit (PCI-X) so that I could get the full bandwidth out of my 29320 controller for my RAID array (4x36.7GB Seagate 336753LW Ultra320 68-pin).

 

[Merovingian]

Well, this is what I would run...

4400+ which probably OC's the same as the 4800+ (2.7-2.8GHz on air) and still has the 1MB per core. Save $500
2x6800GT's flashed to ultra. Same speed save $400
2x550W TruePower PSU's from Antec. You can use overpriced single psu's but they won't compare to two 550W PSU's inline. (requires proper case)
CoolerMaster Stacker I (not the newer 830) case which can run two PSU's inline, hold 12HD's with two 5.25 bays to spare and cooling specs to match. Save $200 over less powerful 850W PSU and case. Remember to get the 3 into 4 modules for the HD's.
Why do you need the power? Cause the CPU's and the hard drives will put a strain on the 12v rail and you need to leave room for reliability and efficiency.
4x512MB sticks of corsair value ram. Why? Cause ram runs like raid 0 and four sticks provide plenty of bandwidth. Zebo has a sticky about unnessesary expensive ram.
At least a raptor drive and at most a Fujitsu MAS MAS3735NC 73GB 15,000 RPM. That Fujitsu has a 3.3ms seek time for $450 OEM but requires a scsi card. Don't do anything silly like raid0.

PM me for more questions if I forget about the thread.

 

[imported_wyrmrider]

I got may son an enermax when PCP%C was not redily available
some Antecs also have tight regulation
see tests at extremeoverclocking
temperature sensitivity is something to watch
sli ps configuration is not well sorted out yet- watch loads on each rail
with dual ps you can put all the (elictrially noisyand fans and other motors on their own rail 🙂


also see recent oc on air test at amdzone on X2 4800

wyrmrider