Asus or EVGA?

Kewl Munky · 04-12-2008, 01:34 AM

I'm not talking about brand in general. I'm talking about these two particular boards I have selected. I am looking for gaming performance by the way. Some of the reviews on the Asus board make it look a bit risky to buy, but the EVGA is more exspensive. I also plan to eventually run two GX2's.

EVGA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188024

Question I have on this board is that someone said something about needing special RAM or something? Apparently it wouldn't work with his 64bit Vista if he used all 8GB, but 6GB worked for him

Asus
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131232

Keep reading bios errors and the board being buggy in general.

Should I try the Asus, or would the EVGA be worth the extra money? Or do you possibly have a board of your own to offer? No more than $300, has to have 2 PCI 2.0/x16 slots, DDR2 up to 8GB of 800Mhz, and I'd prefer an nvidia 700 series chipset or better.

Deviousmind · 04-12-2008, 01:47 AM

wouldnt get the asus m8 heard of alot of doa, thought you might like to look at a cheap alternative
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813128048R
supports both ddr2 and ddr3

Kewl Munky · 04-12-2008, 01:49 AM

I saw that one before, but I want 2 PCI-E ports, and that one doesn't have that great of a chipset.

aSc1@3 · 04-12-2008, 03:19 AM

look at these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e=1256%3A27400

Kewl Munky · 04-12-2008, 03:35 AM

The only other one that looks good is that MSI, but apparently someone got tons of BIOS errors while on XP. I think the EVGA one is looking the best to me right now.

And the motherboard doesn't have to be from newegg. I'm probably buying my CPU from tigerdirect, so that's open as well.

04-12-2008, 01:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
Kewl Munky Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 254	Asus or EVGA? I'm not talking about brand in general. I'm talking about these two particular boards I have selected. I am looking for gaming performance by the way. Some of the reviews on the Asus board make it look a bit risky to buy, but the EVGA is more exspensive. I also plan to eventually run two GX2's. EVGA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188024 Question I have on this board is that someone said something about needing special RAM or something? Apparently it wouldn't work with his 64bit Vista if he used all 8GB, but 6GB worked for him Asus http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131232 Keep reading bios errors and the board being buggy in general. Should I try the Asus, or would the EVGA be worth the extra money? Or do you possibly have a board of your own to offer? No more than $300, has to have 2 PCI 2.0/x16 slots, DDR2 up to 8GB of 800Mhz, and I'd prefer an nvidia 700 series chipset or better.

04-12-2008, 03:19 AM	#4 (permalink)
aSc1@3 Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Kentucky Age: 13 Posts: 417	look at these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...e=1256%3A27400 __________________ MSI PM8M-V--Celeron 478 2.5ghz OCed to 3.0ghz Stock HSF--2X 512mb DDR 400 Ram DVD&CD Reader--CD Burner--200gb Hdd ElitePc Case--Allied 300watt PSU(Broken) nVidia GeforceFX 5200 AGP 8x--XP Pro SP3 Looky, Looky, Clicky, Clicky!

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04-12-2008, 01:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deviousmind Silver Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 138	wouldnt get the asus m8 heard of alot of doa, thought you might like to look at a cheap alternative http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813128048R supports both ddr2 and ddr3

04-12-2008, 01:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
Kewl Munky Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 254	I saw that one before, but I want 2 PCI-E ports, and that one doesn't have that great of a chipset.

04-12-2008, 03:35 AM	#5 (permalink)
Kewl Munky Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 254	The only other one that looks good is that MSI, but apparently someone got tons of BIOS errors while on XP. I think the EVGA one is looking the best to me right now. And the motherboard doesn't have to be from newegg. I'm probably buying my CPU from tigerdirect, so that's open as well.