What's considered the best current Athalon64 motherboard?

bgc99

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My build has been delayed for about a year due to health issues. I'm ready to gather the parts for a new system, and I have been considering Nforce4. I don't really need SLI and the many many many posts with problems have me thinking I might want to go with an existing board.

I'm wondering if getting a board with a mature bios and possibly a later hardware revision would be a better way to go than a Nforce4 board. Having to track down one problem after another for weeks or months while the bios is revised doesn't sound all that appealing.

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Gil554

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It guess it really depends on what you want from your computer. Will you be happy with a stable and dependable computer that does not have the fastest game support for S754 or S939. Do you need lots of overclocking options? G
 

hundesau

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at least u should answer the important questions:

what u gonna use ur comp to?
how much u willing to spend?
 

ts3433

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S754: DFI Lanparty UT NF3 250Gb (no real contest here)
S939 AGP: MSI K8N Neo Platinum, Epox EP-9NDA3+, or Asus A8V (there are probably others)
S939 PCIe: no good boards yet, but the Chaintech VNF4/Ultra is an option if you don't use an XP-90 or overclock very far (we'll see if future BIOSes can remedy the latter)
S939 SLI: Asus A8N-SLI (not much of a contest here either)
 

bgc99

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Originally posted by: Gil554
It guess it really depends on what you want from your computer. Will you be happy with a stable and dependable computer that does not have the fastest game support for S754 or S939. Do you need lots of overclocking options? G

Well, actually I mostly surf the internet, am not a big gamer, and have never overclocked. That said, I want the option to play games with decent performance and I might experiment with overclocking in the future so that option should be available.

At current prices, an Athalon64 3500+ is probably the processor of choice. It's the top of the line in the reasonably priced group. You know how it is, there are several with $40 or $50 diff. between speed versions, and then the next one is $150 more.

 

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Originally posted by: bgc99
Originally posted by: Gil554
It guess it really depends on what you want from your computer. Will you be happy with a stable and dependable computer that does not have the fastest game support for S754 or S939. Do you need lots of overclocking options? G

Well, actually I mostly surf the internet, am not a big gamer, and have never overclocked. That said, I want the option to play games with decent performance and I might experiment with overclocking in the future so that option should be available.

At current prices, an Athalon64 3500+ is probably the processor of choice. It's the top of the line in the reasonably priced group. You know how it is, there are several with $40 or $50 diff. between speed versions, and then the next one is $150 more.

the 3500+ is overpriced. id go with the 90nm 3200+