Bigshow1030
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What is the best board out there right now that will except a 64bit socket a and also one that excepts pci express? 
64bit board with pci/e?
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Bigshow1030
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interesting
do they have any of those out right now?
do they have any of those out right now?
Bigshow1030
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dfi
No I got the dfi lanparty nt350 I believe is the exact number on it
No I got the dfi lanparty nt350 I believe is the exact number on it
Bigshow1030
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Lost me
Praetor I was with you until you said about scaling.....honestly have no idea what it is that you are talking about.....explain it if you will
Praetor I was with you until you said about scaling.....honestly have no idea what it is that you are talking about.....explain it if you will
What I meant was there's little point in going through the added expense of NF4+PCIe when the entire configuration is gonna be limited by a Athlon64-2800 (that is what you were planning if i recall correctly?). The performance jump from NF3+AGP to NF4+PCIe (nonSLI) is, for the most part, negligible and especially so considering the CPU will be the bottleneck rather than the mobo/chipset.
Now looking at your motherboard,
So when i said about "sclaing the CPU", I meant, if you're gonna get a NF3U/NF4anything board, make sure that the CPU isnt the bottleneck
Now looking at your motherboard,
I'm going to assume thats the LanParty NF250 and if I'm correct about the Athlon64-2800, a socket754 board (well it should be), which would mean that a NF3U/NF4anything would be out of the question as those are Socket939 parts
So when i said about "sclaing the CPU", I meant, if you're gonna get a NF3U/NF4anything board, make sure that the CPU isnt the bottleneck
Bigshow1030
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this is it
DFI "LANPARTY UT nF3 250Gb" NVIDIA nForce3 250GB Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 754 CPU -RETAIL Praetor you are right about the cpu and stuff! By the way this is a good board isn't it?
DFI "LANPARTY UT nF3 250Gb" NVIDIA nForce3 250GB Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 754 CPU -RETAIL Praetor you are right about the cpu and stuff! By the way this is a good board isn't it?
Bigshow1030
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thanks
sometimes I think you sleep with a computer manual..........Seems like you have the answer for almost anything
sometimes I think you sleep with a computer manual..........Seems like you have the answer for almost anything
Bigshow1030
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This may sound very dumb but what do you mean by bottleneck......I know what one looks like however, I don;t exactly know what the term is being used for?
This may sound very dumb but what do you mean by bottleneck......I know what one looks like however, I don;t exactly know what the term is being used for?
The Astroman
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How about an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo?
Well if i recall the rest of his proposed specs, he's got a A64-2800, the Lanparty 250 and $100 for a videocard .... no point in even considering that mobo purely from a financial position as well as just feasibility (of course you can get that mobo + 6200 but that would be some serious bottlenecking hehe)
The Astroman
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Is the ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE a good board? My dream mobo (can anyone tell me if it exists, a non server board): 64-bit proc, DDR2 RAM, Raid 0,1,5 , 4 SATA, SLI.
Rambo
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Well, I think it is one of the best motherboards around of the Sli series at the moment. Read some reviews about it, you'll hear many good comments about it. I haven't read on before these couple of posts, so I'm not sure whether you want 939 or 754. Although, the A8N-Sli is 939, so I assume that's what your heading for.
Gigabyte are also very good (These are just the nForce4/u motherboards).
Gigabyte K8NXP-SLi nForce4 SLi (That's a good motherboard if you want Sli and PCI-Express).
On a cheaper version, you could try the Gigabyte K8NXP-9 nForce4 Ultra (Practically the same as above although it doesn't support Sli).
And, a good solution for a cheap motherboard from Gigabyte would be the Gigabyte K8NF-9 nForce4.
You can check them all out on here:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Gigabyte_Socket_939.html
For all the motherboards go here:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_AMD_Motherboards_68.html
Rambo.