which choice will be better ?

[kimohw]

does K9N Neo Platinum NF570 Ultra still has issues and problems with memory comptability with DDR2 800Mhz or this issues have been solved by new bios ?

please K9N Neo platinum NF570 ultra share your thoughts about this mobo ?

in fact I have 2 choices, which one do you think will be better ?

first choice : K9NU Neo-V budget mobo equiped with AMD Athlon 3500+ M2

second choice : K9N Neo Platinum NF 570 Ultra equiped with Sempron 2800+ M2

Thanks in advance

 

[corkyg]

Not knowing anything about your objectives or planned usage, just based on technology, etc, I would pick #1.

K9NU

 

[acegazda]

I am considering the k9n platinum as my first choice, however, I had not encountered serious RAM issues. The RAM i'm looking @ is the 1gb stick of gskill ddr2-800 RAM and from the reviews on newegg, it seems that gskill will work with this MoBo. There is, however no comparison between those cpus. If you must, go for no. 1. Anyone looking @ the k9n platinum, i'd like to know your thoughts as well.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The Neo part of the name only applies to the K9NU. They really should have picked a better naming scheme, just adding a U to it makes it seem like it's just a different model of the same board, but it's a completely different brand chipset.

I'm running a K9N Platinum now, with 2x512MB Corsair 800MHz DDR2. I haven't played with any settings, it's stable at defaults with the 1.10 BIOS. Nice features, but obviously a lot more expensive than the K9NU NEO-V.

If the K9NU has all the features you need for slots and interfaces, then it certainly looks like a nice board if you want to go straight to Socket AM2. Similar features to the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 all the kids are raving about, but more SATA 3GB connectors and a newer chipset. (The MSI site says "Three 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots, one orange slot reserves as communication slot." I don't see an orange slot, but on the K9N Platinum the last slot is orange and simply supports a card with 2 busmaster chips on it to save expansion slots. It didn't say anything about it being reserved though.)

I'd be concerned though about the K9NU's memory issues. 2.2V is extremely high voltage just to get memory to run stable at stock speeds, when it's rated for 1.8V to 2.1V even for high speed, low latency stuff. If you're trying to save money of course, just getting DDR-667 memory would be a very good idea. Performance isn't all that worse than using 800MHz memory, and you can get either more memory or an even faster CPU.