Intel Pentium IV & AMD 64

Abit AX8 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard ( I know you said they aren't good for AMD, but, what do you think anyway?
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Well you kinda answered your own question didnt you? ;)
 
Well you kinda answered your own question didnt you?
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lol, ok...

But what about the other one??

FoxConn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) Motherboard (MB-001-FC)
The NVIDIA nForce™4 MCP (media and communications processor) enhances your AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron-based system with powerful features like ”instant on” secure networking, an advanced storage solution that protects your valuable digital media assets, and PCI Express™, the industry’s latest bus architecture for graphics and expansion cards. With the NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs, you get an unbelievable advantage in maintaining and managing your complete desktop PC. NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs include the ICSA-certified NVIDIA Firewall solution that protects your PC from unscrupulous hackers and malicious spyware while connected through a fast Gigabit Ethernet interface to the Internet or a LAN. Play online games, stream videos, download files, or share data throughout your home or home-office network with the knowledge that your connection is protected. NVIDIA storage solutions allow you to confidently protect and save your most important digital assets from hard drive failure or corruption. A simple-to-use interface makes disk management a breeze and gives you peace of mind that your treasured digital assets are reliably available and protected for the future. You can easily add additional hard disk drives and be alerted should any drive fail. Lastly, the unique single-chip, low-latency architecture of the NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs offers one of the industry’s best core-logic solutions with outstanding performance and market leading features.

- Supports Socket 939 for AMD Athlon™ 64 and 64 FX processors
- Up to 2000 MT/s HyperTransport™
- Max 4GB Dual channel DDR400 / DDR333 / DDR 266 DRAM
- 2 PCIe x 1
- 4 Serial ATA II w/ RAID 0, 1, 0+1
- 7.1 channel, AC97 interface
- CIS8201 (GbE LAN)
- IEEE 1394 (Fire Wire) Support
- Supports up to 8 USB 2.0 ports
- ATX v2.0 compliant PSU Required for PCI-E Graphics/Motherboard
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FoxConn is new to the mobo making business, they supply all those plastic connectors (pci slots, cpu sockets, etc) to everybody.
 
But what about the other one??
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Never had one.

they supply all those plastic connectors (pci slots, cpu sockets, etc) to everybody.
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Arent those the [copycat] things from Vantec?

so is that a - 'Well... They aren't that good' kind of answer? lol
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Dude ... it doesnt really matter all that much [especially when dealing with most NF4U boards]... at least for the time being.
 
Cromewell said:
FoxConn is new to the mobo making business, they supply all those plastic connectors (pci slots, cpu sockets, etc) to everybody.
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I think that they ship quite a few mobos in Asia. Some of the boards that I have seen have got good reviews. For me though, its like a car: I stick with brands that have spent mega $s on reasearch and development, so that I know that I can get performace that I can rely on.
 
yes the AMD PR is supposed to be (or was anyway) what Intel processor speed it is comparable to, not that it is always right, sometimes it's too high sometimes too low.
 
Cromewell said:
yes the AMD PR is supposed to be (or was anyway) what Intel processor speed it is comparable to, not that it is always right, sometimes it's too high sometimes too low.
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What is the FX series? 5.5GHz?
 
the FXes are supposed to compare to the P4EEs but they don't (I think everyone will agree that for the price the FX is much better) so they don't get PRs :P
Even if they did they wouldn't compare to a 5.5GHz Prescott, at that speed the 31 stage pipeline would take off
 
not that it is always right, sometimes it's too high sometimes too low.
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Definitely ... too high with the later AthlonXPs, just right with everything pretty much before the XP2800, the A64s are a bit wonky but then again A64s are a whole different animal ... as for Intel's new PR ... i like it ... too many people with "GHz" in their mind without a clue in the world as to what it means :P

What is the FX series? 5.5GHz?
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1. There's no stock 5.5GHz chip out there ...
2. The FX series is the enthusiast series of Athlon64 chips based off the 'Hammer core.
 
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