The Best MOBO for your BUCKS?

[LetapVJ]

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I am in market for good motherboard for new system that I am building soon. I have few MOBO in my mine but I would like someone to point me in right direction. I am not heavy OC'er but then I might try it this time since I have heard so much about the OCing. I am in between VIA and Nforce chips. I have noticed that lot people talk more about Nforce than VIA chips. So I decided to go with Nforce boards. Now I don't know which Nforce MOBO to choose from. I had Asus before but It was long time ago but I wouldn't mine to get one again. I see lot's people talk about Epox EP-8RDA+ as a good OC'er and Abit NF7-S as good stable board with lot of futures. Some people say ASUS A7N8X Deluxe is best mobo on the maket. I am little confused by the different comment by different people about this MOBOs. All I am asking someone to recommend good Nforce mobo with the best of their knowledge. One other thing is money is not problem for me but I do want good stable MOBO. Please people help out this confused guy to pick good Nforce MOBO. Thanks for any inputs by anyone and will be appreciated.

 

[bjamm2]

Well for stability almost all these Nforce2 chipset boards will do you good. I'll agree and say the Asus a7n8x Deluxe mobo is the best if your not concerned about the money. It has onboard soundstorm dolby sound, onboard DUAL lan(one for lan, the other for cable/dsl), onboard firewire, SerialATA connections, ATA133, Dual DDR 400 Support (dual PC3200 chips). Some people say the only downfall to the board is it dosnt have Onboard RAID setup, it does have SERIAL raid though(you just buy IDE>Serial adaptors to set it up though). I havnt set mine up yet, but i have very high hopes for this, i probalby wont OC, and should be VERY stable. 🙂

if you want to be able to max your CPU out to the most you can you'll want the epox boards otherwise my vote still goes to the asus board. Ive heard its a bit picky with ram so stick with good name brand memory (preffered low latency) I just ordered my pc last week the asus board witht he Barton 2500 CPU, along with some Kingston HyperX PC2700 512mb memory.

Cheapest place to buy the mobo will be googlegear.com highly recommended.. fast shipping, ordered monday (CA) delivered to me on wenesday (TX) at least a normal 4+ days shipping but got for free , cant beat that 🙂

thats my .02 though, may be biased a bit since i did buy it, but i havnt used it and i still have high praises for it 🙂
bjamm

 

[Insidious]

I keep reading posts that make me believe the SATA Raid stuff doesn't work (consistantly) on ANY of these NF2 boards...

Is this so?

-Sid

 

[floccus]

I keep reading posts that make me believe the SATA Raid stuff doesn't work (consistantly) on ANY of these NF2 boards...

Hmmm... I haven't seen any posts about this. But what might give problems is that since SATA is in its infancy that either the drives aren't quite up to snuff or that people using adapters shouldn't use raid. If the people who are posting are using SATA adapters than I would have to finger that as the problem and not the controller, becasue silicon logic is pretty good.

 

[LouPoir]

Nforce2 is the best board out there for AMD stuff. I haev the Abit, but hear and read super things about the Asus and the Epox. Cant go wrong with any of those.

IMHO

Lou

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: floccus

I keep reading posts that make me believe the SATA Raid stuff doesn't work (consistantly) on ANY of these NF2 boards...

Hmmm... I haven't seen any posts about this. But what might give problems is that since SATA is in its infancy that either the drives aren't quite up to snuff or that people using adapters shouldn't use raid. If the people who are posting are using SATA adapters than I would have to finger that as the problem and not the controller, becasue silicon logic is pretty good.

I had been curious how much of it was the MoBo and how much of it was the converted drive interfaces. Like you, I tend to put the blame on the converters, but I'm not really in a position to know.

Thx!