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Good mobo to buy? What do u recommend?

fadedhearts

Junior Member
I've got a budget of like $120 bucks or so and was wondering whats a decent/good motherboard for AMD cpu's (I've got some dinky 1800+ XP) maybe by like ASUS/Gigabyte ppl like that, also if you could list model numbers/website info, that would be great. Really appreciate it, thanks.
 
Don't make us do your work for you. Go look through mobo reviews online and then log on to newegg and see which fit your price range. It's pretty simple.

Don't waste our time when you don't even have a specific question...
 
if u live in the US, go to Newegg.com, select SHOP BY CATEGORY near the top, scroll down to MOTHERBOARDS. Click it. On the right click the dropdown arrow next to NORTHBRIDGE CHIPSET, select NFORCE2 SPP. Click it. Scroll down and click SEARCH. It will list ALL NForce2 motherboards (currently the best chipset motherboards out there for AMD CPU). FInd one in your budget that has some features you like and buy it. THey are all good. the 8RDA+ is the one that I use and it is very stable and really inexpensive. Good luck. And don't forget to read the user reviews for each board.
 
Gigabyte 7NNXP, Abit NF7-S, Epox 8RDA3+, Asus A7N8X Deluxe.

Seems to be top 4 nforce boards, but then i dont own any of them so cant really endorse them. I have been considering it though and the NF7-S seems to be my choice as the 7NNXP is waaaaay more expensive over here right now, plus (a lesser factor tbh) the NF7-s is tried + trusted around boards like this one, whereas the 7NNXP I've only seen reviews of (extremely positive ones though).

If you dont want the extra's on those feature-rich boards, e.g. dont need SATA, there are cut-down versions of all those boards except afaik the gigabyte. Abit have the plain NF7, Epox the 8RDA+. Asus have both a non-deluxe version and a A7N8X-X which is heavily cut down on features you might not want - especially price.

gf4200isdabest stop wasting my time with your utterly pointless posts. fadedhearts has a question with a purpose behind it. The large numbers of motherboard options with all the different features that half of them use different terminology for, and all hype as if it is essential, makes it somewhat confusing for people who dont follow motherboards. However, they want a quality board, so sensibly ask at a forum - the entire point of which is so people who dont know about something can ask and find out from people that do, and as a side effect also from people that pretend to. Unlike his goal-orientated post, yours simply says "stfu" in an anal and self-important way. The thread title is clear, so simply dont waste your time clicking on it, or even more of your time plus some of ours by clicking reply. A titchy little bit of common sense on your part and nobody has a problem.
 
gf4200isdabest has a personality complex. Just ignore him.

fadedhearts:

Go for the Epox 8rda+. I just bought this board and it is probably one of the best motherbopards I have ever purchased. Compared to other boards it's quite vanilla, hence the low pricetag. If you dont need SATA and all the bells and whistles, you cant go wrong with the 8rda+.

If you need the extra features, any of the boards listed by Davegod are great boards as well. But if you get the 8rda+, you can keep that $45 dollars and put it towards a new CPU or some RAM.

Hope that helps.
 
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