Which board is better (socket 939)?

[dfuze]

I think I've narrowed my replacement socket 939 board to these two, Abit and Asus. They both seem to be pretty much the same in my eyes, except $40. Does anyone have any reasons to choose one over the other?

 

[Fiat1]

Asus

 

[grooge]

You can try the A8R32-MVP if you don't really need SLI. I choose this one because the ATI chipset is fast, and do not need fancy cooling. And the ULI SATA controller is faster than the nvidia one too, and it proved here, to be the best motherboard that I've owned so far, better than nvidia ones..

 

[Heidfirst]

abit AN8 32X
very good, very stable board

 

[dfuze]

The A8R32-MVP does look nice, but how do nvidia cards run on them? I've got a 7900gt and don't plan on buying another nvidia/ati dx10 card until i can see some scores w/ dx10 games.

 

[imported_whymeintrouble]

my I had a 6600gt running in mine for about a year, absolutely no problems. even while my opty 170 was doing 2.6

 

[grooge]

PCIe busses are all the same, so PCIe video card run in all system.. that's why there is standard

 

[customcoms]

I'd go for the Abit over the Asus (in general Abit is a better brand IMO). However, for S939, this is among the top 5 motherboards made for the platform, the best IMO, and is the exact same price as the Abit!!:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152
Thats the board I'd be buying, or perhaps this:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136165, which will go to the same place clockspeed wise and is dirt cheap.

However, the Lanparty RDX200 is even more of a beast to tackle than the Lanparty nForce4 imo (a LOT less people have the RDX200), and with dfi-street being down, getting the necessary info to setup the RDX200 properly could be a challenge. With the Ultra-D, I have the necessary info you need to tackle the board, plus links to sites (namely ram timings) other than dfi-street to help as well.All I can say is the Ultra-D is a great board, is more than capable of hitting the highest clocks in the hands of the right user, plus is SLI moddable if you so desire (or you can buy an SLI-D which is the same board w/ SLI chipset).

 

[dfuze]

Thanks guys, for making this decision even tougher by listing some other really nice looking boards!

I've tending to look past the DFI boards because reading some reviews in the past they sounded like big pains if you don't set them up exactly as they like to be. Also, I'm trying to find a board that doesn't have a northbridge fan (if I can). Those DFI ones look like a chipset heatsink would be in the way of the shear girth of the new video cards that are coming out.

I've put a Zalman heatsink on my last board, but I'd rather get one that comes with it rather than do it myself if I can.

 

[StopSign]

My previous board was the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D and I can assure you the NB fan does not get in the way of video cards. It's the exact same height as the PCI-E slot so if there's any overlapping, the video card would sit right on top of the fan with about 1 mm between them. Even my 6600GT overlapped the fan a little.

 

[moosey]

Originally posted by: StopSign
My previous board was the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D and I can assure you the NB fan does not get in the way of video cards. It's the exact same height as the PCI-E slot so if there's any overlapping, the video card would sit right on top of the fan with about 1 mm between them. Even my 6600GT overlapped the fan a little.

This is correct, I'm selling my DFI board now and a Radeon X1950Pro fit fine.

 

[dfuze]

Thanks for all the input from everyone.