MOBO or Memory

Rick G

Rick G

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I have a compatibility issue with my Asus A8V and Geil memory. One has to be replaced to be compatible with the other.
If you had to replace one, which one would you change.
 
Why not the motherboard and get a nForce chipset. The A8N-E is about 120 and is a superior board to the A8V. I'm not sure why you are having compatibility issues, and if other motherboards like the A8V would work with that memory.
 
I have found the Geil to be excellent memory using Abit, MSI, Gigabyte, Soyo and others.
Asus does not show much for memory compatibility except Crucial and Kingston, neither one on my "like" list.
Geil likewise does not show a lot of compatible mobo's.
I am leaning toward the mobo change as I am not a big fan of Asus and especially not the A8V.
 
I have a compatibility issue with my Asus A8V and Geil memory. One has to be replaced to be compatible with the other.
If you had to replace one, which one would you change.
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What series of Geil?

The A8N-E is about 120 and is a superior board to the A8V
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And vastly inferior to the MSI K8N Neo4 :)

I am leaning toward the mobo change as I am not a big fan of Asus and especially not the A8V.
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Good call ... ASUS makes superb boards .... just not the best route IMO for K8s which is really too bad
 
Praetor said:
And vastly inferior to the MSI K8N Neo4 :)
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I was including his price range of about $100. I would have reccomended my board or the Neo4 if he did not mention a price, as this subject has been flying around the forum for some time now.
 
Its surprisingly low actually (should be much more). Even that aside, at a price of say $135 that i would have expected, i'd still favor the MSI K8N Neo4 (NF4U) over the A8V-E simply due to the improved featureset (dual SATAII .. not that it matter but its something ... as well as the improved hardware audio)
 
Thanks all for the input.
The Geil ram is the value series.
The bios has been updated to the latest rev.
The MSI board I am looking at is the K8N NEO2-F for $77 with nvidea nforce 3 ultra. Need to have AGP slot.
 
Update:
I switched over to an Abit AV8 and really like the board but the symptoms persist. I wanted an MSI but decided to go with something from Fry's so that I could return it for refund or trade for new RAM.
So now back to the Asus board and return the Abit:(
Here's hoping new ram does the trick but I'm not really optomistic about it.
 
Well, it turns out that my frezzing problem is not a mobo or ram issue. I found out that it is a bad cd instalation disc from Linksys that causes so much havoc.
I removed all things Linksys and the system works fine using the onboard lan.
Just an observation, the Abit board ram much faster using default bios settings than tha Asus. No more Asus for me!!
Thanks all for the input.
 
Just an observation, the Abit board ram much faster using default bios settings than tha Asus. No more Asus for me!!
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There's probably a 0.05% performance delta between similar boards ... you can notice this?
 
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