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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Kwan on November 26, 2005, 06:45:11 PM
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Wanna keep my X800 AGP Vid card. Looking to upgrade to an Athlon 64 soon.
Best motherboard I can find (Socket 939) and AGP is....
MSI K8N NEO2-Platinum NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX
Anyone using this one ???
Thx ......... :)
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I have one of those, and...
It's not stable. I don't know if it's the mobo, cpu, memory, or what, but something not right. Components that worked just fine in my previous computer (floppy drive, cdrom, dvd-rw) don't work right. And it seems to be stable, passes various stress tests, but then it crashes sometimes, with either a BSOD or just weird behavior such as every time I open an MSIE browser, it immediately exits with an error reporting message.
Backing memory off to 2T timings seemed to help some, but the memory passed 24 hours of memtest86 and still crashes in windows. I can't figure out what's wrong, cpu, memory, or mobo.
Also, the voltage and temp monitoring doesn't work quite right with this MSI board for a lot of people. It reads high or low for many people, making it tough to tell what's really going on especially when faced with problems. If the cpu temp reads high and the computer crashes, is the temp actually that high or are you just chasing down a dead end trying to cool down the cpu?
Anyhow, that's what I've been faced with when using this mobo. If I had to do it again, I'd go with ABIT or ASUS.
What I suggest doing is trying to sell off what you have including the video card, and going with a socket 939 ASUS board with pci express. I'm close to doing this myself due to the instability, and since I don't want to swap out every single part one at a time and if I have to go to a new mobo, I may as well go to pci-e on the vid slot, and that means a new vid card too.
A last comment regarding this MSI board - there seems to be stability issues with it and the dual core cpus. The bios updates haven't come all that regularly from MSI and it seems like either they can't fix it, or they aren't all that interested in fixing it. Either way, I'd go with ASUS or ABIT.
IMHO.
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Originally posted by Kwan
Wanna keep my X800 AGP Vid card. Looking to upgrade to an Athlon 64 soon.
Best motherboard I can find (Socket 939) and AGP is....
MSI K8N NEO2-Platinum NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX
Anyone using this one ???
Thx ......... :)
I'd go with an asus =)
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Interesting, I have that MSI K8N mobo too. I'm also looking to get a new video card, still running old faithfull 9700pro. I too was thinkigng about a new board and pci-e video card for the same stability issues. Which boards and cards are the ones to look into?
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OK I've been running my new set up for about 4 months now without a single stability issue.
I am running MSI NEO 4 platinum. this is a non sli board.
athlon 64 3000 venice core cpu
1 gig rosewill ram
gygabyte 6600gt vid card.
running AH in 1200-1024, 512 txture size.
GFX sliders in cam almost all the way to the left .
I have ground detail set at 3 miles.
Vsynch set at 85 frames. At 3k above ground lvl frames are maxed.
Only time i turn a few things down is when i gv and only when there are a bunch of people around me.
I'd recomend msi's athlon boards with nforce ultra chipset to any1.
Hope this helps .
Bronk
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Asus and Epox often provide the best performance in their class. Asus does it with a premium, Epox most often not.
Bout an Abit NF4 board and regreted it immediately - installation was more complicated compared to Asus. Otherwise Abit is the third label I would choose from.
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I've been eying these two items.
mobo (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152)
vcard (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130256)
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Asus has some "deluxe" mobo that seems to get a lot of good reviews and recommendations from review sites. It is sometimes $20 more but has a lot of features.
That's what I'd get if I was buying now.
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id go with these.
AGP/939
EPoX EP-9NDA3+ Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
MSI K8N Neo2-F Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
if u dont mind VIA chipset.
ASUS A8V Socket 939 VIA K8T800 Pro ATX AMD Motherboard
939/PCI-E
DFI NF4s
Asus A8Ns
BFG no sli right now but soon too
PCI-E Video
BFGs,, cost alittle more but life time warrenty and the only US video card company.
7800 GTX 256 and 512s
new ATIs seem to be about on par if u can find them.
Whels
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You cant go wrong with an AsRock (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081) :aok
Seriously, I've heard that it's a pretty good budget board with AGP and PCI-E.
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Thx for suggestions all .... Still deciding.
Lots of pro's and cons for the MSI and ASUS both ...
Damn I hate researching an upgrade :)
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My Gigabyte motherboard has taken a beating since I got it; doesn't fit right for PCI/AGP slots (due to a sucky case, no prob with MB), bent it till it almost cracked, missing some screws, ect ect...still works very very well. Sometimes MFS2004 randomly crashes in super-speedy mode and I've had AH crash twice in the past six months. Has every port I could ever want, including 6 rear USB and 4 front USB (only two plugged in).
Mine's an Intel socket, so it wouldn't be help to you, but if it's repesentative of other boards...
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edit-answered my own question.
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I have the MSI board and it is touchy to set up, but once you have it right, it's stable. The last board I had was the gigabyte. I've always liked them, but this one only lasted a few months and was gone. FIrst and formost, you need a GOOD power supply.
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Originally posted by SunKing
I've been eying these two items.
mobo (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152)
vcard (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130256)
Newegg has it for @2798 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130247
Also that DFI motherboard is the tits, best A64 mobo out on the market.
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best board for overclocking! I have had mine almost a year now.
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Originally posted by schizer
Newegg has it for @2798 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130247
Also that DFI motherboard is the tits, best A64 mobo out on the market.
Ya I picked up the DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 and I'm overwhelmed with all the bios options atm.