A year ago I bought the best 939 MB for me, the K8N Neo2 Platinum. I wanted stability and dual-channel memory more than anything else.
What features do you value most? What can you just absolutely not live without? What do you plan on using the rig for? What hardware do you already own that you'd like to use with the new board?
I'm not the world's foremost expert on every aspect of MB design, but answer those questions and I'm betting that you'll get some terrific advice here from those who are.
The DFI lanparty line of motherboards are awesome, as are pretty much any Asus board.
The main thing you will want to look is the nForce 4 ( older nForce 3 ) chipsets.
My Asus A8n Deluxe is a very stable board, ive only had 1 bios issue, lol, with it. any one who has seen my post about that already knows. but I highly recommend that board, as well as its nwe big brother the A8N32.
Did I miss something somewhere. You're no longer the big Epox proponent you once were? I'm not poking fun here. We all change our opinions as technology progresses.
Did I miss something somewhere. You're no longer the big Epox proponent you once were? I'm not poking fun here. We all change our opinions as technology progresses.
Nope - still the great Epox Fan (Still running a Epox 9NDA3+ mobo). But I've noted that in current NF4 mobos, DFI, Asus and Abit place heatsinks on the CPU Power circuitry whereas EPoX doesn't. A minor point but it's there.
I must admit that the Asus A8R-MVP is a wonderful board ...especially for overclocking. The only fault I can find with it is that it doesn't allow enough vcore for me to take this processor "all the way" into the danger zone.
If you've never considered an Ati chipset because of anything you've ever heard about them ...just forget all you've heard. This board is highly overlooked by many and I'd be willing to bet that the next generation of Ati chipsets will be nothing less that spectacular.
Asus chose to use the Uli southbridge on this board and they did so because of issues with the previous option by Ati. And even though nVidia has purchased Uli it doesn't matter because Ati had already improved on the southbridge on their own and it was to appear on the next generation of chipsets anyway.
All in all I'd have to give this board a 9/10 based on the things that I like about a board. And I do love this board as much if not more than my retired NF7-Sv2. Just don't tell Asus ...I still want them to give me more vcore!
I'm pretty sure what lastsight wants is almost the best stock parts he could buy. (AFAIK) He doesn't know much about overclocking so a stable board would probably be best.
He'll be using the computer to play games, mostly WoW. He had a Lanparty NF4 SLi-DR board picked out already though, I think that will be fine.
EDIT: Oh yeah... As you could probably tell from the first post, money isn't really an object.
just look at my signature i'll have that by the summer my friend says its a waist of money but if im not buying it it doesnt matter but should i get something else ???
I would say that ASUS and DFI are relitavely tied as far as the best 939 boards. Most benchmarks that compair them show that they both lose and win to eachother. The only plus DFI has over ASUS is that they have more overclocking fetures.
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Really, I don't know, From what I hear, 939s have yet to produce an NF-7 quality board.
A year ago I bought the best 939 MB for me, the K8N Neo2 Platinum. I wanted stability and dual-channel memory more than anything else.
What features do you value most? What can you just absolutely not live without? What do you plan on using the rig for? What hardware do you already own that you'd like to use with the new board?
I'm not the world's foremost expert on every aspect of MB design, but answer those questions and I'm betting that you'll get some terrific advice here from those who are.
The main thing you will want to look is the nForce 4 ( older nForce 3 ) chipsets.
My Asus A8n Deluxe is a very stable board, ive only had 1 bios issue, lol, with it. any one who has seen my post about that already knows. but I highly recommend that board, as well as its nwe big brother the A8N32.
Abit
(Epox)
If you've never considered an Ati chipset because of anything you've ever heard about them ...just forget all you've heard. This board is highly overlooked by many and I'd be willing to bet that the next generation of Ati chipsets will be nothing less that spectacular.
Asus chose to use the Uli southbridge on this board and they did so because of issues with the previous option by Ati. And even though nVidia has purchased Uli it doesn't matter because Ati had already improved on the southbridge on their own and it was to appear on the next generation of chipsets anyway.
All in all I'd have to give this board a 9/10 based on the things that I like about a board. And I do love this board as much if not more than my retired NF7-Sv2. Just don't tell Asus ...I still want them to give me more vcore!
He'll be using the computer to play games, mostly WoW. He had a Lanparty NF4 SLi-DR board picked out already though, I think that will be fine.
EDIT: Oh yeah... As you could probably tell from the first post, money isn't really an object.
As for the ATI chipset mobos I'll wait for the 600 series SouthBridge and some long term usage data (6-12months)
DFI
MSI/EPOX
asus
abit
You will get almost as good proformence from 150GB raptors for less money... and you wont have to buy an expensive scsi controler card.