AMD 64 FX55 Best Motherboard

MeunoukMeunouk Wales, UK
edited November 2004 in Hardware
It will be January/February when I will be building a brand new system, which should also hopefully mean prices will of lowered a little.

What will be the best motherboard to get? Will want to be doing overclocking, PCI eXpressing and decent memory

http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/amd4000_fx55/

On there they used an MSI one.

Will check back with you later on

Thanks

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I do believe the motherboards to watch will be the offerings from Asus, Abit and DFI based on the nVidia nForce4 ULTRA chipset (Or less, as your budget dictates).
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    I agree.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Any new rumors on when mobos based on the ATI RS480 will be hitting the streets? That could at least have an impact on the price of NF4 hardware.
  • MeunoukMeunouk Wales, UK
    edited November 2004
    I dont believe I have a budget for this, of course I would like to keep the prices mimimal but i have the bread :mullet:

    Abit would be my first choice but I cant find any that seem to meet my required spec

    Asus would be second choice

    I want some good overclocking going on
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    If you have the budget for a $800+ cpu, but you don't have the budget for a $160 mainboard? Pardon me but that doesn't make any sense at all. What specs are you after since the Abit didn't include your demands?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I think the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe will be an awesome board... :D
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited November 2004
    Ask this question in Jan/Feb, when the Athlon 64 NF4/PCIe motherboards have been released and benchmarked/tested.
  • MeunoukMeunouk Wales, UK
    edited November 2004
    Mackanz wrote:
    If you have the budget for a $800+ cpu, but you don't have the budget for a $160 mainboard? Pardon me but that doesn't make any sense at all. What specs are you after since the Abit didn't include your demands?

    No, I said I dont have a budget. As in, I will spend whatever it takes, though I would like to spend as little as possible (get the best for the cheapest prices around)

    So far the only Abit Socket 939s I know of are Via...and they dont have PCI Express
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2004
    NF4 is the next evolution of NF3 obviously and continues to pound out nVidia's firewall plus mass storage support. Now the NF4 motherboards will, most likely, come in several price-option flavors. Remember the NF3 250 and 250 GB flavors. The full option for mass storage was with the more expensive GB series.

    SATA 2 ups the throughput but it is not fully explored yet for benchmarks and reviews. It will be interesting if it is a new SATA hardware interface or mostly a new way of writing to the drive that provides the disk performance increase. nVidia has been calling their SATA technolgoy NCQ (Native Command Queuing) which is, in layman's terms, a faster spin route to the desired data on the disk.

    I do doubt that it is totally software based as that would make sense meaning our current sATA drives would suddenly leap up to max throughput of 3Gb/s. But no...can't have that...need to sell more drives...not use old ones.

    I do like the GB series for their mass hard drive support. In this day of whackloads of data (MP3s, movies, etc) it's nice to have that kind of support in multiple configurations.

    I imagine NF4 will be much like any other major hardware "level"...10-15% faster. I do know that Seagate is set to introduce a monster 400 GB platter.

    I'm set to receive a NF4 board and hopefully it will be the GB version but I doubt it. SATA II drives? I'll keep turning over rocks.


    The next question is to leap onto the PCI-E train or not?
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Well, with NF4, you must leap onto the PCI-E train. You better call ATI for a PCI-E card asap Mediaman.
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2004
    Got one of those coming. I hope.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Good man there. I'm looking forward to that article. Any chance Nvidia wants to play ball and lend you two cards for the article?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I'd much rather see nVidia PCIe performance, as they won this round.
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2004
    Mackanz wrote:
    Good man there. I'm looking forward to that article. Any chance Nvidia wants to play ball and lend you two cards for the article?

    nVidia isn't playing ball much these days. They dog and pony a system around and spend a few minutes bashing through it to give the 10 second overview.

    It's a lot of see but no touch.
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