Originally posted by: Zap
WTF man, you're too impatient. Go take your meds!
Seriously you asked a question and expect it to be answered in 15 minutes? You take "instant gratification" to new heights. Some people only check these message boards once a day. Some people only come here once a week. Give it some time, man.
I considered giving you a "time out" by not answering your question now and coming back at a later time to answer it, but not only would that make me waste my time by posting an extra time in this thread, but I'd have to remember something, plus it would be as silly of me to pull that stunt as it was of you to expect an answer in 15 minutes.
ANSWER:
Dual channel is not possible with socket 754. The Geforce6100 chipset
is capable of dual channel when built with a socket 939 on the board, but not with socket 754 (both sockets can be hooked up to any chipset capable of 1000MHz HT). In the case of the Epox board, it is clearly socket 754 and thus single channel, so it was a typo.
The "best" out of all those at the link IMO is the Biostar Tforce6100 (NOT the Biostar Geforce6100, big difference).
Read Zap's mini review of the Biostar Tforce6100
The board has the feature you want, is still within spitting distance of the cheaper boards in price and works as well as any others. There are two possible benefits of this board that makes it worth the extra few bucks. First, higher quality components (such as capacitors, extra mosfets) means potentially better stability and/or longer life. Second, if your brother is thus inclined and his CPU is willing, the Biostar Tforce board is an extraordinary overclocker.
Oh yeah, one other thing is that the Biostar board is passively cooled, so no worries about instability/dying motherboard if/when the chipset fan dies. Chipset fans are very, very prone to dying.
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