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Recommend a good motherboard

SagaLore

SagaLore

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My requirements are:

1. Good chipset
2. No onboard video, no onboard modem
3. possibly onboard raid controller for SATA
4. possibly no onboard sound or ethernet (although that is near impossible these days)

I want something that is known to last and reliably compatible with other parts. I just had a ECS K76SA's power connector melt/burn at several pins, and I was using a good quality Enermax power supply.

While you're at it, recommend me a good RAM to go with the board.

thanks
 
I'll recommend the Asus K8N-e Deluxe. This uses the nforce3 chipset. It is a very stable board with a LOT of features. I'm using it with 1 gig of Mushkin pc3200 and I couldn't be happier.

BTW, is this for socket 939 or 754, because the board I just recommended is for socket 754.
 
Originally posted by: jpthomas
I'll recommend the Asus K8N-e Deluxe. This uses the nforce3 chipset. It is a very stable board with a LOT of features. I'm using it with 1 gig of Mushkin pc3200 and I couldn't be happier.

BTW, is this for socket 939 or 754, because the board I just recommended is for socket 754.
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I suppose 754. I wish my older Athlon XP could run on it... 🙁
 
I just bought a Chaintech VNF3-250, and it's working great 🙂 Oppinions from other people around here seem mixed, though.

Nate
 
Note that the K8N and K8V boards have go AGP/PCI lock so dont expect to OC much, the K8V board on the VIA chipset instead of nforce3 chipset is on paper a tad faster than the nforce3 chip, but you will hardly notice the difference. I'm with the VIA chip and I must say, it is a very good board.
 
Originally posted by: effee
Note that the K8N and K8V boards have go AGP/PCI lock so dont expect to OC much, the K8V board on the VIA chipset instead of nforce3 chipset is on paper a tad faster than the nforce3 chip, but you will hardly notice the difference. I'm with the VIA chip and I must say, it is a very good board.
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I don't plan on overclocking at all.
 
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