What choise to make, information neede (my fisrt post here)

Homie · Post by **Homie** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:00 am

Im currently looking for a new motherboard for my socket 939 "AMD64 4400+ 2.2Ghz & 2Mb cache", 1024Mbx2 Corsair CMX-4000PT 500Mhz, 2 x Point Of View 7800GT, Creative X-Fi Extreme Musik.

So my first choise in a LINEUP of 3 mobos is:

ABIT AN8-32X,nForce4 SLI X16,Socket-939

together with the "ABIT Guru Panel"

My questions to this are, how mutch can i increas voltage and can i se the current voltage ? (On the motherboard im using no i can only increas +0.1 & +0.2 without seeing the current voltage). The same question goes for the CPU voltage settings.
Does it have a fully [16x, 16x] support in SLI mode. I know it only perform 1-3% better then [8x, 8x] in best cases.
Is there any known issues with the X-Fi cards or is it fixed with the newest BIOS ? Is there any specific ABIT comunity(forum), moded BIOS and sutch.

My seccond choise is:
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR

The only thing im worried about here is that there are reports about issues with Creative soundcard products. Im not sure if they aply to the X-Fi series ? Other questions are the same as for the ABIT board.

My third choise is:
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe, nForce4

The same questions as for the ABIT & DFI board's.
I dont know about any issues at all, are there any ?

Related links:
ABIT
http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/no/motherb ... cket%20939
Guru
http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/no/multime ... uru+Family

DFI
http://eu.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product ... LP&SITE=UK

ASUS
http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3& ... odelmenu=1

All questiona above applies mainly to people who own any of the mentioned products above. I also know that some of the questions have been asked b4,
and i just want to collect them under 1 topic

So please dont post anythink like "google.com" or "use search",
I hope u guys respect this. ;)

/Homie

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:17 am

I personally have used the ASUS and DFI board listed and I loved the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe as it was easy to setup and use. If you want easy thats the board I'd suggest. The DFI Expert is a great board and I'd suggest it if you like spending hours tweaking and tuning your system for ultimate peformance. I'm sure some others will give you input also.

Welcome to the forums and be sure to introduce yourself in the new members section!

Homie · Post by **Homie** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:34 am

Apoptosis wrote:I personally have used the ASUS and DFI board listed and I loved the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe as it was easy to setup and use. If you want easy thats the board I'd suggest. The DFI Expert is a great board and I'd suggest it if you like spending hours tweaking and tuning your system for ultimate peformance. I'm sure some others will give you input also.

Welcome to the forums and be sure to introduce yourself in the new members section!

Thanks for the replay Apoptosis

I missed that forum part

but now i have introduced my selfe there ;)

/Homie

stereo55 · Post by **stereo55** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:41 pm

I have an Abit AN8 32X and its been rock solid with my Opty 165 (in Winx64).
The Guru thingy is pretty darn cool too , although I use the Guru clock vs the drive panel due to my pc being "under" my desk (as the panel would be hard to read from that position) . Definitly a cool add-on and benifit from Abit .

All-in-all Ive been very happy with the AN8 32X and its been VERY solid for my overclocking and gaming needs .

Excellant choices you had selected , which makes for a definite hard pick between them . Eitherway you go you should a heck of a system .

Since I have experiance with a few of the Abit AN8 series of boards , my vote goes to the AN8 32X .