ATX AMD 64 Mobo Recommendations?

wvpoochiwvpoochi
edited May 2004 in Hardware
Anyone got any reccomendations for an ATX form factor 64-bit AMD mobo? Like what is the best, etc. Or do you know a good place with say a mobo roundup of reviews? If you have any recommendations for 32-bit of the same type I will take those too! Thnx!

Comments

  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    ok I can answer this one! I have an Abit and MSI I had the asus but it sucked so i sent it back to newegg. Out of both the boards I like the MSI K8T Neo at newegg its 124 bucks US. One of hte best boards Ive laid my hands on the Abit is jsut as good but its not worth the extra 25 bucks
  • Mark099Mark099 Vancouver, BC
    edited March 2004
    Many are saying MSI's board is about the best.
  • NandroNandro
    edited March 2004
    I have the K8T Neo. Its a good board, but I dont think the A64 OC's well. I am waiting on some water cooling parts to see what I can do.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    i wanna go wc but i am alas to broke from buying the A64 and to chicken to put water in a A64 system!
  • SuperGregSuperGreg
    edited March 2004
    Here is a Link to a decent (in my opinion) hardware site...

    http://www.tomshardware.com/
  • MackanzMackanz
    edited March 2004
    SuperGreg, What's wrong with Icrontic's hardware site?
  • karatekidkaratekid Ogdensburg, NY
    edited March 2004
    Mackanz wrote:
    SuperGreg, What's wrong with Icrontic's hardware site?
    We don't have a review of an Athlon 64 board :p
    That said, I find Tom's to be biased (I could say more, but I don't want to rant.) www.anandtech.com is one of my favorite hardware sites (besides Icrontic of course :))
  • adhamadham Ft Bragg, NC
    edited March 2004
    Well isn't that special? There is no best A64 board because none of the bastards help in Athlon 64 overclocking endeavors!!! Yeah, yeah, they're already fast enough, but where is the fun in that??? I like a good challenge, but not being able to get more than a 100MHz overclock SUCKS. That's a fact so don't bother to try and deny it. I can barely stand not being able to overclock my Athlon 64, God help us all......if you are out there at all.
  • adhamadham Ft Bragg, NC
    edited March 2004
    Does ECS make an Athlone 64 board? BUY IT! Then you don't even have to bother trying to overclock it, you can just live with the average, ordinary, run of the mill motherboard. You could probably get the same performance as I get from my $160 Abit KV8 Max 3 for $100 less, and not get the 2 alarms that go off when I try to get a 210Mhz front side bus. Yeah I'm bitter, it happens.
  • MackanzMackanz
    edited March 2004
    adham,

    What you need to do if you want to overclock is to either: Change mainboard to a NF3 based board so that you can use your videocard when you overclock. Chaintech is cheap and overclocks pretty nice. You can use Chaintechs bios for the FX boards on the NF3 so that you have multipliers again. It's the chipset that holds you back right now.
  • EvoV1tEvoV1t
    edited May 2004
    I have an athlon 64 3000+ on a Asus K8V SE Deluxe together with Pc 3200 VALUE ram(cheapRam) running at FSB 225 / Cpu clock speed 2250.

    My system is 100% stable and Im about to buy some OCZ PC3700 Gold Dual Chn Rev 2 ram as this appears to be one ram which is capable of good speed on the asus board. FSB 243 @ timings of 2-2-3-6, decent overclock dont you agree?? see for yourself at; http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1528&page=2

    If you have the same board just update your bios.. you will be impressed at how much better it will overclock.
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