What is the ultimate gaming Socket A board?

[peter584]

I am looking to upgrade but want to keep socket A and will also use single channel memory. I want a board that is fast but STABLE as a rock.
Thank you for an insight. I'm lost when it comes to mobos

 

[Jayczar]

What is the ultimate gaming Socket A board?

I am guessing the Asus A7N8X-Deluxe or Abit NF7-S.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: Jayczar

What is the ultimate gaming Socket A board?

I am guessing the Asus A7N8X-Deluxe or Abit NF7-S.

My NF7-S Rev 2.0 is solid as a rock at stock speeds. I havent found my sweet spot for overclocking yet as I have more commitments than to my PC.

I doubt you can go wrong with either of those 2 suggested but Id definately lean towards an ABIT.

 

[MDE]

Another vote for the NF7-S.

 

[zodder]

My vote always goes to the Asus A7N8X Deluxe.

 

[OrenSam]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
Another vote for the NF7-S.

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

I think he asked about a single channel board

I reccomend the MSI KT6 Delta (VIA KT600)
very feature packed for the $$$
arguably the fastest KT600 board available

I have one and the only thing that I don't like about it is if you are overclocking and you mess up a setting(i.e. overly aggressive memory settings), it is not very forgivinig and a CMOS reset is usually in order


edit for spelling

 

[Zepper]

The Soltek KT-600 based mobo is a good one too, but the Asrock with the SiS 748 chipset is no slouch - they recently put out a new revision with Firewire and SATA, so hot newegg can't keep 'em in stock. But you'll need a stouter PSU to run it than the KT-600 mobos mentioned.
.bh.

:moon:

 

[Bonesdad]

DFI Lanboy

 

[peter584]

NF7-s
A7N8x deluxe
are in the lead. Is this the general consensus?

 

[Xemus]

Originally posted by: gotey
I think he asked about a single channel board

I reccomend the MSI KT6 Delta (VIA KT600)
very feature packed for the $$$
arguably the fastest KT600 board available

I second that. I have it running in my machine at home (which is my gaming machine) with a 2800+ Barton and it's solid as a rock.

 

[BTSpope]

i have the kt6v-lsr from msi, which i believe is the replacement for the kt6 delta. Its cheap as hell(61 bucks shipped from newegg) and flies with a single stick of 400mhz ram. Best bang for your buck single channel amd solution imo

 

[Diogenes2]

Originally posted by: gotey
I think he asked about a single channel board

He asked for boards that will ' use single channel memmory '...

Maybe we could get peter584 to clarify..

But the dual channel boards will run single channel, and the NF7-S is hard to beat when it comes to ' fast and STABLE '...

 

[dnuggett]

DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B. Baddest board availble...... love mine. (well except for that crap ass Winflash utility)

 

[Manzelle]

Epox 8RDA+ or 8RDA3+ (latest revision)

 

[Warhawk71]

Originally posted by: dnuggett
DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B. Baddest board availble...... love mine. (well except for that crap ass Winflash utility)

Check out the DFI NFII Ultra Infinity if you want to save some cash - same basic board as LanParty w/o the carrying strap, neon sockets, and other superfluous extras. The boards perform and overclock the same. Also has CMOS Reloaded to save multiple BIOS configs for easier overclocking/switching.