what mobo would you get?

[Brymo]

well i am building a new system.. and am stuck on what mobo to get... whats the best TO YOU??

first i was looking at the...

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=13-128-199

but then i was looking at the asus and saw this seems to be very popular which is a good thing IMO

so this is the link to the other one i was looking at..

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=13-131-436

the one for 122

what do you think?

 

[Tetsuo]

I'd get the Asus

btw, wrong forum

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
I'd get the Asus

btw, wrong forum

 

[Eli]

Asus.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
I'd get the Asus

btw, wrong forum

linkage

 

[Brymo]

oop sorry i thought there was a place, bah sorry guys just late, and i am tired and needed a quick answer..

sorry again

and thanks!

solves my problems!

 

[CraigRT]

whichever is cheapest... both are NForce2 and both would work just fine 😀

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Whatever you pick, make sure it has an OPFC*-compliant NIC.

- M4H

*Onboard Proper Forum Checker

 

[DogFromDuckhunt]

A7N8X-Deluxe hands down. Awesome mobo.

 

[IGBT]

I've had great luck with BioStar over the years..only one failure out of many builds.

 

[BaboonGuy]

go for an NF7-S man, imo the best nf2 mobo

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: IGBT
I've had great luck with BioStar over the years..only one failure out of many builds.

Soltek for me.. I have 3 PC's in my house all running Soltek.. and they all run like a dream (each model is different too)

 

[Pliablemoose]

Asus A7N8X Deluxe very nice MB & a massive thread in the motherboards forum.

Just put together a system for my wife with one & it's awesome. Biggest headache was putting on the SATA adapters on the IDE drives to set up her RAID. 2 tricks to setting up the ASUS, don't forget the jumpers for FSB & RAID, otherwise, simple set up.

Got a refurb A7N8X Deluxe from Newegg too, won't post on anything but the default speeds, just sent it to Asus, hopefully, they'll send me one that works.

 

[new2AMD]

get them both and test them out. Pick the one you like and send me the other one. 😀

 

[josedawg]

I myself was going for that same Gigabyte board because its so feature rich. (Please, someone else find me a mobo with so much goodies on it: 4xUSB2.0, 2xIEEE 1394, SATA RAID AND IDE RAID, Gigabit LAN, 4xDIMM slots, etc...) + it's $8 less 🙂

It all depends on what you need. I believe the GA-7N400PRO has nVidia's Soundstorm, the GA-7N400PRO2 (the one you linked is the PRO2) doesn't. It has some Realtek integrated sound. Integrated sound wasn't really important to me because I already have an Audigy Platinum eX that has proven good enough. I do like Asus for the reliability and stability, as well as the many compliments people give the A7N8X Deluxe, but it just didn't have everything I was looking for. Every person has different needs from a mobo, find the one that has everything YOU need.

Note: I heard the PRO2 doesn't have vdimm and vcore changes in the BIOS, only the regular PRO. It could have changed with a new BIOS update, but as I don't have the board myself, I couldn't tell you. Just something to note.