nforce2 mobo for barton...these requirements

[techiecool]

i am looking for a nforce2 mobo for a barton 2500 retail. i am looking to find out which mobo is the most stable board stock and/or the fastest board stock. they may not be one and the same i guess. thanks

 

[pspada]

I've always found FIC motherboards to be rock solid stable. I just sold a client the AU13, and it made a very nice, responsive system.

 

[wicktron]

The Asus A7N8X is the fastest out of the box with no overclocking.

 

[Iron Woode]

I have my Epox 8RDA+ running an XP2500+ Barton right now. Works great so far and extremely stable. I have 512 megs (2 256meg dimms) in DC mode.

Temp averages about 38-40C

 

[Corporate Thug]

overall, the NF7-s is the best board

 

[Skitzer]

Originally posted by: shady06
overall, the NF7-s is the best board

I second that!

 

[pspada]

Just stay away from ASUS. Their tech support is non-existant, no matter how fast the board might be. Oh, and their much quoted 3 year warranty is bull$hit, I've never been able to get them to honor it.

 

[mechBgon]

I've RMA'ed two Asus A7V333-R's over the phone without much hassle. I agree that you can count on not receiving any reply to their tech-support email, though!

 

[pspada]

I've gone back and forth, the guys in asia say the US office will take care of it - but I never get a call back or reply to e-mails, and have never been able to swap a defective one out. We've been so disappointed in ASUS that we refuse to sell their equipment any more. Personally, I'd rather have an ECS piece of crap in my machine than an ASUS, and I strongly recommend to everyone that they avoid ASUS as if it were the plague.

 

[mechBgon]

Out of curiosity, what problems are you having? My work fleet is about half Asus (CUV4X's and A7N266-VM's) and those are working trouble-free (the RMA'ed A7V333-R's were my personal one and my supervisor's nephew's one).

 

[rocketbubba]

My Barton 2500+ runs great in my Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro. Not many people talk about Leadtek boards but I like mine.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

At stock speeds the ultra400 boards are all within such a close proximity of the other's performance that real world usage would be indistinguishable. You should concentrate on what feature set you want and choose a board that offers it all at a good price. Stability issues are mostly generic NF2 chipset ones and all can be resolved, worked around, or avoided by doing a little research ahead of time. Furthermore, most board makers have released bioses in the last month or 2 that address the vast majority of compatibility issues particullarly with ram so set it up properly, use quality components paying special attention to the power supply, and use the 6P's (proper planning prevents pi$$ poor performance ) and you are down to the feature set you want at the pricepoint you wish to pay for them.

 

[pspada]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Out of curiosity, what problems are you having? My work fleet is about half Asus (CUV4X's and A7N266-VM's) and those are working trouble-free (the RMA'ed A7V333-R's were my personal one and my supervisor's nephew's one).

The guy in asia told me that the board was under warrenty, and that the North America branch would take care of it. But they a) never bother getting back to me; and b) the one time they did, they told me to contact the reseller. Yo, morons, I am the freakin reseller. Since this one time, I can get no reply whatsoever, even from the guy in asia.

ASUS = $hit