Looking For A New Motherboard

[fatetheory]

I'm loooking for a new motherboard to buy, here's my requirements in order of importance, there all pretty important though.

1. Must be AMD Socket 939

2. AGP Slot

3. 1 or 2 IDE Raid controllers (The only reason I want these is because on my previous computer I had 2 80gb drives hooked up in raid and I would rather not loose that 120gb in hard drive space.

4. Not a Gigabyte Motherboard (I've had some bad experiences wiht Gigabyte boards)

 

[LED]

Your choice is pretty much limited to the NF3 Mobo's with Epox and MSI leading the pack but if you can wait a few weeks then I would opt for one with the ULi chipset

 

[fatetheory]

Whats the ULI chipset?

I did look at some MSI boards, none of them had Extra IDE Raid controllers on them.

 

[LED]

ULi chipset

EpoX EP-9NDA3J

 

[fatetheory]

How long is a few week though, I might be able to wait two weeks, but 3 or 4 will be tough.

 

[LED]

LOL...2 weeks use to be the standard for all new hardware released dates ...but I would anticipate it'll be late August because ALi will follow up with a new Chip that'll support SATA2/3.0Gb/s...
On your gigabyte mobo did you strip everything down to the minimum, reset the BIOS and use a different Vid Card

 

[fatetheory]

Yes, I've tried all of that.......

There is no jumper on my motherboard to clear it, so i just took out the battery, it should do the same thing.

 

[teddyv]

ASUS AV8 Deluxe?

 

[fatetheory]

Yea thats exactly what im looking for.

 

[Jaxidian]

Thought there was a decent DFI nF3 board out there...

 

[11427]

There is also a Soltek and a Soyo board out there.....

 

[fatetheory]

I was thinking about not getting a 64 bit motherboard at all and just getting a replacement for my Athlon XP proccessor. I hope my proccessor still works though there is no way to test this .

Update SOYO SY-K7V880Dragon2 v2.0 Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KT880 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

While I dont know the name brand of this board as well, This contains all of my needs and its only 93$.