Extraordinary Cow
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Hey guys, my friend is looking for some answers...i'll directly quote one of his posts in another forum:
Well, I started planning on building my first PC and I have everything picked so far except a Mobo. I know I need Socket 939 because I picked out a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice. I also want either firewire ports in the back or just having the connections so I can utilize the firewire port in the front of my case. I also want nForce 4 Ultra chipset and PCI-E. After searching for a few hours for the perfect mobo it came down to two.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128283
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484
Right now I'm a little unsure because the MSi has had some bad reviews such as the northbridge chipset fan breaking soon after the computer was first booted up. I really want to get the Gigabyte one but I want to get the MSi one as well because it has all the things I need (Gigabyte has no firewire in back). The gigabyte also comes with a lot more SATA cables I believe, but I don't know if those are necessary. So if anyone can help me out with picking out which mobo to get, I'd greatly appreciate it.
He'd appreciate any help.
Well, I started planning on building my first PC and I have everything picked so far except a Mobo. I know I need Socket 939 because I picked out a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice. I also want either firewire ports in the back or just having the connections so I can utilize the firewire port in the front of my case. I also want nForce 4 Ultra chipset and PCI-E. After searching for a few hours for the perfect mobo it came down to two.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128283
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484
Right now I'm a little unsure because the MSi has had some bad reviews such as the northbridge chipset fan breaking soon after the computer was first booted up. I really want to get the Gigabyte one but I want to get the MSi one as well because it has all the things I need (Gigabyte has no firewire in back). The gigabyte also comes with a lot more SATA cables I believe, but I don't know if those are necessary. So if anyone can help me out with picking out which mobo to get, I'd greatly appreciate it.
He'd appreciate any help.
