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What's a good motherboard to go with an X2 3800?

Epox 9npa+ultra is $99 with free shipping at chiefvalue.com Thats a good stable cheap board with lots of features.

Asus A8N-E I think is a good board as well.
 
Other than shorter times for DVD Shrink, Will I see any benefit for going with a 3800 over a Athlon 64 3700? The price difference is pretty big and I don't use any multi threaded software (how much of it exists anyway). I'm most interested in gaming and I've heard about stuttering problems with the X2's. How much of difference will I see with just multitasking between the 3800 and the 3700 with 2GB of RAM?
 
Honestly, for normal use, you won't see any benefit to having an X2.

But if you want to be able to encode video as you do several other things at once, the benefits are very apparent.

Also, more games & programs are being/will be written for dual core.

If you only keep your CPUs for like a year, then the non dual core would be fine.

But if you like to keep your CPUs for a while, it makes sense to go dual core...
 
Although DFI is know predominantly for OCing the boards are super stable and dependable at stock speeds as well. Go with a single core CPU and stick to the non SLI rig.
 
Although the DFI boards will run much more than a Asus or Epox board I would recommend them. They have a plethora of adjustments that you can do (overclocked or not)
 
Another vote for Epox 9NPA+ Ultra,rock stable board,0 problems on mine 🙂.,btw I'm using Athlon 64 x2 3800+ as well.
 
Originally posted by: n7
Honestly, for normal use, you won't see any benefit to having an X2.

But if you want to be able to encode video as you do several other things at once, the benefits are very apparent.

Also, more games & programs are being/will be written for dual core.

If you only keep your CPUs for like a year, then the non dual core would be fine.

But if you like to keep your CPUs for a while, it makes sense to go dual core...
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This place really comes alive when you mention AMD. I'm a little skeptical at how well it actually will multitask because I do some multitasking with a Pentium D 820 and it still doesn't seem uber fast. I usually have a shitload of processes running, Firefox, Windows media player, and AIM. With that scenario, and if I plan to build a whole new computer in probably 2 years or maybe 3, should I go dual core 3800 or single 3700? Anyone have links to benchmarks that compare the two in games?
 
Most games will NOT use both cores. The benefit is almost 0 at the moment from a gamer standpoint. Also certain games, although I think there's a fix available, have a strange stuttering issue with dual core systems. This is just what I remember reading and I have no first hand knowledge of a dual core system.
 
I will probably go with the 3700. Dual core is not worth it to me. I've heard about problems with Asus, especially with the Neo HE PSU like I have, and I don't like the layout of DFI boards.

I think it's now down to the EPoX E9NPA+SLi or the Abit AN8SLI.
 
Originally posted by: Throwmeabone
Anyone know if the 3700 comes with the new heatpipe cooler?
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Don't think so. Only X2's above 3800 (some say they're still getting older 4400s too) and on Opteron chips. You can get them off ebay though for $15 or so.

 
Glad I saw this thread because I was about to post the same question ... except I am going to go with a X2 4400.

The DFI ultra D is very interesting because of the feedback I have been getting on it. For every 2 people I see that say this board is awesome, I got one person who reports horror stories. NOt sure I am willing to roll the dice on this board anymore and I was VERY close to ordering it.

Now I am beginning to lean towards the Asus A8N-E ( I dont need SLI ) but... so many different recomendations here. On the other hand I have heard so many good things about the SLI version I may just get it .
 
Originally posted by: Stumben2
Glad I saw this thread because I was about to post the same question ... except I am going to go with a X2 4400.

The DFI ultra D is very interesting because of the feedback I have been getting on it. For every 2 people I see that say this board is awesome, I got one person who reports horror stories. NOt sure I am willing to roll the dice on this board anymore and I was VERY close to ordering it.

Now I am beginning to lean towards the Asus A8N-E ( I dont need SLI ) but... so many different recomendations here. On the other hand I have heard so many good things about the SLI version I may just get it .
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I have the DFI SLI-D which is about the same as the Ultra-D feature wise and I couldn't be happier with it. 100% stable at 270Mhz FSB running my 3000+ at 2.43 with only a very very slight voltage adjustment. The range of options on this board are amazing to me comming from Intel platforms which do not have the plethora of different tweaks available.

If you don't like DFI, then you don't like it. However, every review I've read has raved about it with stellar overclocking ability and stability.
 
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