Need a recommendation for a good rock stable NForce2 mobo....

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:26 pm

I have delt with them all. All very reliable for me so far....and many of them have rare stuff.

Greg

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:01 am

Well this thread got a bit hijacked....

Yeah, first board I looked at is the A7N8X. Nice board. I like the throttle on the CPU fan, and the fact that there's no chipset fan.

Onboard Firewire is cool - I can lose my firewire card.

I don't have a problem with the price.

Probably go with that. Now I need to decide on a CPU. What's the fastest CPU I can go with with my existing PC2100?

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 8:00 am

What's the fastest CPU I can go with with my existing PC2100?

The XP 2400, I think.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:13 am

Not sure but I think the Asus like the Epox can run ram at an independent speed from the CPU thus you can use any CPU that the mobo supports and run ram at slower speed if necessary. I have heard mixed results in doing this and think the performance suffers doing so. Ram is fairly cheap now might want to go ahead and pop for some PC3500 or so.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:54 am

http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=268

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:54 pm

I vote for the A7N8X Deluxe - and I've tried the 8RDA+ also

as for vendors, i'd like to add tcwo.com , directron.com , and mwave.com to the mix

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Need a recommendation for a good rock stable NForce2 mobo....

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