What motherboard should I get?

[shah456]

I am looking at the K8T800 but am not sure exactly if that is the best board. It has a VIA chipset and I read around that Nforce chipset is the way to go. If you guys could lead me into in the right direction, that would be great.

 

[Connoisseur]

Err, get the new VIA K8T800 PRO. It has the new 1000 HyperTransport and it has a true AGP/PCI lock. You can read about it on anandtech. You def. want this board for the added stability of the AGP/PCI lock (especially if you plan on overclocking) and the faster hypertransport. shouldn't be much more expensive than current K8T800 or NForce 3 boards.

 

[shah456]

Are you saying buy a VIA chipset board, I have never and any motherboards made by VIA.

 

[exar333]

do you plan to OC or not? thats the question....if not, the MSI Neo is a great board with the Cool and Quiet feature...or the Asus KV8 is a really stable board too....if you do want to OC, get what Connoisseur
said, or a nforce3 250 board....both seem to be very stable and decent OC'ers....there ya go!

 

[shah456]

thanks alot, i really do not plan on oc'ing and you basically summed it up for me. Which would get ASUS or MSI

 

[SniperWulf]

My vote goes for MSI

 

[shah456]

anyone else have any suggestions? any new motherboards coming out soon, worth waiting for?

 

[exar333]

i like MSI, have built 3 A64 systems with it and have been trouble-free and 100% stable with it 🙂 nice board and a great price...if you want a A64 system now, go for one

 

[James3shin]

A-Open AK86-L, nice mobo, the K8T800 Pros aren't even out yet I believe, and won't be out till socket 939 is out which is in June. I'd recommend the A-Open board.

 

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