lilweirddude Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 i need advice on which motherboard to get for a amd athlon 64 3200+socket 939ive heard good things about the neo 2 platinum but thats kind of expensivealso, what is a good, quiet heatsinkfor now, i'm considering zalman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart of borg Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 Zalman is a very good choice for exceptional cooling with low noise. As for a mobo......Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 2 x PCI-E x16 SLI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilweirddude Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 ouchanything cheaper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilweirddude Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 also, whats the difference between retail and oem motherboards?do the oem not com with any cables/software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 exactly, and check to see if it comes with a manual, some oem dont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 If it´s an ASUS motherboard and it´s OEM, then I think you have a REFURBISHED mobo. You don´t want that, it was a defect mobo before (90% got wrongly flashed but still). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 ASUS A8V with AGP8x * for 140.00 US$ASUS A8V-E with PCI-E* for 170.00 US$ASUS A8N-SLI with PCI-E SLI* for 180.00 US$* For now PCI-E isn’t giving ANY performance boost for resolutions under 1280*1024. From 1280*1024 and up you can see some performance gains but still the question is “is it worth it”. SLI is nice, when you have the cash .Also, Zalman all the way for cooling . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holzer Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 i'd defenitely go with the zalman for cooling, those things just rock... and for the mobo, i'd go with an asus a8n-sli, you probably don't need the extras of the deluxe version.. i have one here and it works like a charm.. anyway go for an nforce4 one, i have had nothing but bad experiences with via chipsets.. imho their crappyness is the reason why intel dominates the p4 chipset market the way they do.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 What's this PCI-E SLI used for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 @ holzer,VIA isn’t bad, also iNTEL is still dominating the marked because they have a lot of patens on there name, together with better marketing makes it a giant to fight against. It’s NOT VIA that makes AMD bad and sure nVidia did a good job with the chipsets, I would go for a nVidia chipset too, but the VIA is a bit cheaper (looking at price/speed).@ rjz,Let me try to explain SLI in plain simple English; SLI is an interface between 2 graphic cards in this case that work together. There for you need a motherboard with dual SLI and for now it’s only supported by dual PCI-E (8x max) motherboards (there are some exceptions but forget them . ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Thanks for the reply. That was a good answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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