[TriLUG] New motherboard recommendations?

[Sam Folk-Williams]

I've built several systems with epox nforce boards... however, not
with amd64. generally, i think the epox boards are very high quality,
have been extremely stable and reliable and have packed in a lot of
features for a good price.

I'm not completely sure building an AMD XP system is out of the
question... the boards are still a lot cheaper, though the processors
now are only like 20 bucks difference between, say, the XP 2800+ and
the amd64 2800+ -- depends on how tight your budget is. If it isn't
all that tight, 64 is the way to go.

3GB of RAM should not be a problem with any modern board.. I
personally love expox, but asus, abit and MSI all get good consistent
reviews.

my board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123237 

On 6/30/05, Joel Ebel <jbebel at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> AMD is really pushing the 64 bit line, so its no longer economical to
> build an athlon XP system.  If you're sticking with AMD, go with the
> athlon 64, unless you want to go on a budget and get the sempron.
> 
> As for motherboard recommendations, I don't have any personal
> experience, but arstechnica in the their system guide recommends the
> EPoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra, based on the nForce 4 chipset.  You might also want
> to check out tomshardware's review of several boards here:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050513/index.html
> He seems to like the Abit and MSI boards, which also use nforce4.  He
> also did a review of an Asus A8N SLI which he liked.  Based on that I'd
> say people like the nforce4, so from intrex you can go with an MSI K8N
> NEO4-F for $86.20 or an Asus A8N-E for 135.80.  Either would be a fine
> choice for your shiny new athlon64.
> 
> Joel
> 
> Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > I'm thinking of upgrading my motherboard at home, and wondering if anyone
> > has recommendations. Considering either AMD64 or a fast Athlon XP. The
> > main concern is actually RAM: I want to be able to have at least 3G
> > available, as I tend to run lots of things at once including big stats
> > runs and vmware.
> >
> > Advice?
> >
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