Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 in stock!

[ChicagoPCGuy]

timecop67: Congrats! You will probably love this board. I chose the Foxconn nF4 for reasons all my own, but this Soltek board was the other one I was actively considering. I had narrowed it down to the Soltek or Foxconn board. Foxconn won out for me because I really really wanted NCQ -- I just bought a Seagate 7200.8 200Gig hard disk drive, and just gotta have all the latest toys....I will also let you guys know how the Foxconn works out. Timecop67--please also let us all know your experiences, too. The forums need more first hand experiences being posted.

dklingen--if you intend on buying the A8V-E Deluxe, watch out. Do a search for this board on the forum and read up. It has issues.

 

[dklingen]

ChicagoPCGuy: Thanks for your input. The issues I have read about on the Soltek board have to do with the 1T not working and the hardware monitor being flaky (accorind to other posts in the forum). I have also seen all the bad info about regarding the A8V-E Deluxe. Back to my original point, I don't feel like any of the boards are mature for 939 PCIe. Correct me if I am incorrect in this perception.

Timecop67: I would be very interested in your "happiness" with your new system. I don't think you can beat the X800XL if you get it at CompUSA for $299. I am planning on getting the AMD 3200, it looks like it overclocks fine and I like the multiplier being 10. Good luck!

 

[ChicagoPCGuy]

Thanks dklingen. I was not aware of any issues with the 1T on the Soltek board--but you can be sure Soltek will correct that fast. They have excellent support.

Actually, I agree that none of the current boards are fully mature for S939 and PCI-E, but some are much better than others and work as advertised. The Chaintech and Foxconn are two such examples.

 

[dklingen]

ChicagoPCGuy,

So if you had to choose between the Soltek and Chaintech boards, which would you pick?

Thanks!

 

[customcoms]

Chaintech b/c of the features. Plus it is cheaper than the Soltek. And it overclocks further.

 

[Macro2]

What features? Soltek has firewire and OC's nearly as well. Heck 280 MHz on a board that rated at 200 Mhz is pretty good.

 

[shogun64]

explain why the k8t90 should use passive cooling

 

[jmat]

the sl-k890Pro seems to have issues with the onboard gigabit ethernet -- namely not being able to properly negotiate network speed (10mbs, 100mbs....). I got it to work after 12 hours or so. But when I rebooted it was gone yet again. Now one of my PCI slots is occupied with a PCI ethernet card... and I cant plug my sound card in. Soltek's customer support didn't respond.