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Title: name me a good m/b
Post by: knighty on April 21, 2006, 23:40:35 PM

my little brothers motherbored was a bit naff and under supported (msi one iirc) then it died

new ones lasted a few months, now its dead too, and he wasn;t very impressed with it anyway

after some advice on which new one to get

AMD 64bit
4 x ddr slots
4 x sata with raid
needs to have PCI-E

any pointers before i order one tommorow ?

Title: Re:name me a good m/b
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 21, 2006, 23:53:50 PM

Whats your budget?

DFI boards are great all round, SLI or not.

Title: Re:name me a good m/b
Post by: Shaun on April 21, 2006, 23:57:10 PM

DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR the best money can buy at the mo :D

Title: name me a good m/b
Post by: knighty on April 21, 2006, 23:57:35 PM

budget is wide open, its got 4 gig of good ddr, a 4 disk sata raid array, a top end gfx card in it and a 3500 64bit chip (was the best chip out when new)

no point in skimping on the bored :)

hopeing 100 or less tho ?
will go more if its worth it

Title: Re:name me a good m/b
Post by: Shaun on April 22, 2006, 00:10:59 AM

Still DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR :P

Title: name me a good m/b
Post by: Agrue on April 23, 2006, 01:59:06 AM

Whats the difference between the SLI-D (http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=604022) and the SLI-DR (http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=603876) as I cant see one :\

I only have 2gig of RAM, but its over four slots. I quite liked the ASUS board, seemed really stable up until it died, but apparently tey have a lot of problems with venice cores :?

EDIT: Just a quick check, Im pretty sure it is the mobo, but just in case. Ive ben getting artifacts in games for a while now, but its been getting worse. PC then started freezing, but music etc in the background would still play (only the pic froze). Eventually it got to the point that the screen would arse up with random colours, then the PC would reboot. Now it wont boot.

Id oringally assumed that it was a graphics problem, but the new gfx card I ordered made no difference. Tried a new PSU too to no avail. Im pretty sure it is the mobo that is knacked, but can anyone think of anything else it coule be?

Title: name me a good m/b
Post by: knighty on April 23, 2006, 02:23:19 AM

2 gig of ram ?

pfffft, are you some sort of homo-sexual or something ?

Title: Re:name me a good m/b
Post by: Mark on April 23, 2006, 02:46:02 AM

Whats the advantage of the DFI board over my A8N32 ? Am interested to know

Title: name me a good m/b
Post by: madmax on April 23, 2006, 14:45:56 PM

Quote from: KnightfeverWhats the difference between the SLI-D and the SLI-DR as I cant see one :\

I only have 2gig of RAM, but its over four slots. I quite liked the ASUS board, seemed really stable up until it died, but apparently tey have a lot of problems with venice cores :?

EDIT: Just a quick check, Im pretty sure it is the mobo, but just in case. Ive ben getting artifacts in games for a while now, but its been getting worse. PC then started freezing, but music etc in the background would still play (only the pic froze). Eventually it got to the point that the screen would arse up with random colours, then the PC would reboot. Now it wont boot.

Id oringally assumed that it was a graphics problem, but the new gfx card I ordered made no difference. Tried a new PSU too to no avail. Im pretty sure it is the mobo that is knacked, but can anyone think of anything else it coule be?

iirc, i remeber reading some A64 core revisions didnt like dealing with 4 sticks of ram and would have stability issues cleaned up by using 2 sticks instead (2 x1gig instead of 4 x 512mb etc(

Title: name me a good m/b
Post by: knighty on April 23, 2006, 23:23:48 PM

treid less sticks, different sticks, different slots etc... no difference

was fine for about a year, then came on all of a sudern, im 99% sure its the m/b

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