- Apr 15, 2007
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I have been out of the game of ~7+ years, addicted to my Apple Powerbook. I am looking at making a comeback and need some help.
Background:
I have been running a computer with a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466-4M duel CPU with duel Athlon MP 2100+. All of the other stuff is fairly standard, 1gb PC-2100 RAM, 10 ATA drives, Adaptec 1394a/USB2 card, sound blaster live 5.1, and ATI Radeon 8500.
Everything had been going great with some minor problems. My NVIDIA GeForece 4100 Ti died and had to be replaces with a extra Radeon 8500 that I had on hand. This is the major factor in needing. I need to upgrade my video card, but all of the acceptable video cards these days are PCI express.
Current Status:
I have been looking at many of the new boards. I am extremely "on top of it" when it comes to new technologies but like I said, I have not used many of these outside of a business environment.
I think that I am set on some form of the Athlon 64 X2. I would prefer to go duel Xeon but the cost outweighs the amount that I will actually be using the machine.
One feature that is need is 1394b (FireWire800). The majority of by external peripherals have the 1394b interface. 1394a is a minimum.
On board 7.1 audio is also a must. Coax S/PDIF out would be best but I can live with optical.
The only three boards that I can find that fit these two criteria are
Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H
XFX MB-N590ASH9
EVGA 122-M2-NF59-TR
All of these boards seem identical for the specs to the exact layout of the MOB. Does anyone know the OEM of these boards - I would assume that it would be Foxconn.
What is the quality of the boards produced by these "new players" in the MOB market. Most speciffically EVGA?
Does anyone have better recommendations?
Sorry for the long ramble. I know how annoying it can be when people post "tell me what to buy threads".
Thanks.
Background:
I have been running a computer with a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466-4M duel CPU with duel Athlon MP 2100+. All of the other stuff is fairly standard, 1gb PC-2100 RAM, 10 ATA drives, Adaptec 1394a/USB2 card, sound blaster live 5.1, and ATI Radeon 8500.
Everything had been going great with some minor problems. My NVIDIA GeForece 4100 Ti died and had to be replaces with a extra Radeon 8500 that I had on hand. This is the major factor in needing. I need to upgrade my video card, but all of the acceptable video cards these days are PCI express.
Current Status:
I have been looking at many of the new boards. I am extremely "on top of it" when it comes to new technologies but like I said, I have not used many of these outside of a business environment.
I think that I am set on some form of the Athlon 64 X2. I would prefer to go duel Xeon but the cost outweighs the amount that I will actually be using the machine.
One feature that is need is 1394b (FireWire800). The majority of by external peripherals have the 1394b interface. 1394a is a minimum.
On board 7.1 audio is also a must. Coax S/PDIF out would be best but I can live with optical.
The only three boards that I can find that fit these two criteria are
Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H
XFX MB-N590ASH9
EVGA 122-M2-NF59-TR
All of these boards seem identical for the specs to the exact layout of the MOB. Does anyone know the OEM of these boards - I would assume that it would be Foxconn.
What is the quality of the boards produced by these "new players" in the MOB market. Most speciffically EVGA?
Does anyone have better recommendations?
Sorry for the long ramble. I know how annoying it can be when people post "tell me what to buy threads".
Thanks.
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