Guest Major_Chaos Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Which motherboard that supports the amd processors do you think are the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 ABit NF7 series is my first choice..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I'll second that one. From what B.o.b. keeps tell me about his, they seem really kick ass. Dragon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 ABit NF7 series is my first choice..... I would definitely go w/ the NF7-S mobo, Pursuit & B.Ob. both have them & speak very highly of them. The reviews also speak highly of this mobo. That's also the mobo I'm looking to get as well -- Nem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 just for shopping purposes: Abit NF7, nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset, usual stuff, built-in 10/100 nic, decent built-in sound (2 channel thou), 5 PCI slots, with extra space next to the AGP slot (so a 2-slot card, like the 5950 Ultra doesn't chew up a PCI slot), USB 2.0, Dual Channel DDR, supports all Athlon XP's from the Palamino up thru the fastest Barton (3200+) Abit NF7-M, adds built-in GF4MX video (if your a gamer, you'll want a nVidia 5700 or ATI 9600, or higher, video card instead!!!) Abit NF7-S, no built in video, but adds firewire, SATA (2 connections), 5 channel SoundStorm audio (same acclaimed audio that is in the XBox), extra overclocking features in BIOS, to alter multiplier (although the new 2500+'s apparently are multiplier locked now) This board is best with 2 sticks of Identical RAM (3 slots total), so match your RAM to the frontside bus of the proc, ie: Barton 2500+ has 333 FSB, so get 2 sticks of PC2700 (or faster) RAM. Hope this helps.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 My crappy $70 ECS board overclocked past the NF7 I had and a friend's I borrowed. Buy a board for what your needs are, not what others...go to like http://www.amdmb.com/ , check out the forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 My crappy $70 ECS board overclocked past the NF7 I had and a friend's I borrowed. Buy a board for what your needs are, not what others...go to like http://www.amdmb.com/ , check out the forums Very true!! Although the initial msg was just asking for what we thought were the best. Although I was expecting a follow-up msg from icunvnme with more specifics he/she was looking for. Asking for the best, is like asking what car brand you prefer, some won't care as long as it works, then you have your Ford, Chevy, Honda etc fans! I guess my fondness for Abit is that I have a couple older Abit BX6 rev2 m/b's that have been the picture of reliabilty for 3+ years now. Not to mention that it runs a higher processor than on its official list of supported CPUs. I had a bad fall-out with Gigabyte thou, buts thats a story for another time. Which reminds me, I've got to put together a How-to article on how I took our older, dead Gigabyte mb's (GA-7VTXE VIA KT266A) and put them back into service after replacing the leaked caps they had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurSuiT Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Don't think I would consider anything other then a nForce2 chipset at the moment though. I got both a nForce2 MCP-T nForce2 Ultra400 chipset and they both are quite stable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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