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cstone6

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I am looking to purchase a new motherboard and processor, I was just wondering if anyone had any reccomendations for an AMD 64 or a Pentium 4 that have a reasonable price.
 
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cstone6 said:
I am looking to purchase a new motherboard and processor, I was just wondering if anyone had any reccomendations for an AMD 64 or a Pentium 4 that have a reasonable price.
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Personally I recommend ASUS motherboards. They are a little more money, but you get a stable Mobo with lots of the latest features.

ASUS makes both Intel and AMD motherboards. Do you have a preference and how much money do you want to spend?
 
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scarecrow

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The rule of the thumb is pretty simple: First, you buy an Asus... then, you actually check what you've actually bought.
That said, and if you do a lot of CD and DVD burning, try to avoid Nforce chipsets- stick to native Intel ones, or SiS (for both Intel and AMD CPU's).
 
roadworker

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scarecrow said:
That said, and if you do a lot of CD and DVD burning, try to avoid Nforce chipsets- stick to native Intel ones, or SiS (for both Intel and AMD CPU's).
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Not necessarily.....An Abit NF7-S v2 is a fine mobo,just avoid installing the nforce ide drivers,and use windows native ones instead.Everything else works great.
Didn't install the latest version of nforce drivers yet,so I dunno if the busmaster probs are solved...;)
With btw also exist with most VIA chipsets and Intel Application drivers...
 
stevie_boz

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Aye Asus boards are my personal choice ;), an m8 of mine has an Abit NF7-S v2 mobo in his puter and has had no probs whatsoever using just the native windoze ide drivers....
 
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As said above, Asus boards are a good choice. I am biased, I have an Asus P4P800 deluxe. Have had no problems and excellent value for money.
 
Laz

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As above - Asus.

Setup a new DVD vid edit system using an Msi K7N2 Delta and just had problems with encoding/burning - nforce problem I guess.

Replaced with the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and as with all my other system all on Asus boards I now have zero problemos - Even with the nforce drivers installed. ;)
 
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cstone6

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Thanx for the posts....

Im looking to spend about 300, but I would like to get a processor/mobo combo if that is possible and for the money the new athlon 64's look pretty promising and they seem to keep up with P4's in the tests I have seen.
 
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If you do go down the Asus route, make sure you buy memory that has been tested and qualified (on the Asus site) and you could save youself all the hair pulling and shouting that I went through :) A7V600.
 
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spottydog said:
If you do go down the Asus route, make sure you buy memory that has been tested and qualified (on the Asus site) and you could save youself all the hair pulling and shouting that I went through :) A7V600.
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Yes so true, my A7V333 is increadibly fussy on this score and does not even like Crucial despite this supposed to be OK. I put some cheapo Kingston Value RAM in there and it was fine .... weird. :confused:
 
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Laz said:
Yes so true, my A7V333 is increadibly fussy on this score and does not even like Crucial despite this supposed to be OK. I put some cheapo Kingston Value RAM in there and it was fine .... weird. :confused:
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DITTO: Crucial in my Abit board, fine. Put it in the Asus NO WAY.
Put Kingston in and it ran\runs like a dream.
 
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Laz said:
Replaced with the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and as with all my other system all on Asus boards I now have zero problemos - Even with the nforce drivers installed. ;)
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Your in good company with that Mobo bud. I've had zero problems with mine as well. Most stable Mobo I've owned. ;)


No burning issues either. Just stay away from the SW IDE drivers (as Roady mentioned) and you will be fine.
 
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