13 way Athlon64 Mobo shootout

kpothuwila · Post by **kpothuwila** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 3:36 am

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainbo ... undup.html

These are the mobos.

Albatron K8X800 ProII (VIA K8T800)

AOpen AK86-L (VIA K8T800)

ASUS K8V Deluxe (VIA K8T800)

BIOSTAR K8NHA Pro (NVIDIA nForce3 150)

BIOSTAR K8VHA Pro (VIA K8T800)

Chaintech ZNF3-150 (NVIDIA nForce3 150)

Gigabyte GA-K8N (NVIDIA nForce3 150)

Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP (NVIDIA nForce3 150)

Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 (VIA K8T800)

Leadtek K8N Pro (NVIDIA nForce3 150)

MSI K8T Neo (VIA K8T800)

Shuttle AN50R (NVIDIA nForce3 150)

Soltek SL-K8AV2-RL (VIA K8T800)

Seems to me that, Albatron K8X800 ProII is the best overclockable A64 mobo out there.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:13 am

man that is a bunch of boards and they are still missing ABIT and a few others!

Post by **Illuminati** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:55 am

kpothuwila wrote:Seems to me that, Albatron K8X800 ProII is the best overclockable A64 mobo out there.

Remember not to judge by just one review... get a few opinions before drawing your personal conclusion... Hard|OCP's OC views on the Albatron K8X800 ProII.

kpothuwila · Post by **kpothuwila** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:08 pm

Yeah Apoptosis, the Abit K8V-MAX 3 would've been a great board as well.

These A64 mobos are not that overclockable due to the VIA K8T800 & nForce3 150 chipsets.
nForce3 150 can lock the AGP/PCI bus but can't use the unlocked multipliers of the A64.
K8T800 can unlock the multipliers but can't lock the AGP/PCI bus.

So if you're really into A64 overclocking, you have to wait for a chipset that allows AGP/PCI locking & unlocked multipliers, may be the nForce3 250 that's out next year might do the job.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:46 pm

Or what about the upcoming VIA K8T800 Pro chipset? Is that going to be able to lock the AGP/PCI bus?

kpothuwila · Post by **kpothuwila** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:30 pm

What are the improved features of the K8T800 Pro compared with K8T800?

I think in the nForce3 250, they're gonna include native SATA supprot, maybe 8 USB 2.0 ports compared with 6 in the nF3 150. Will they have soundstorm?

Anyway hope both chipsets have the AGP/PCI lock & unlocked multipliers?

Post by **Illuminati** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:37 am

kpothuwila wrote:Anyway hope both chipsets have the AGP/PCI lock & unlocked multipliers?

I hope so too! :!:

Wolfgang70 · Post by **Wolfgang70** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:23 pm

Hmmm. The Albatron board got a good rating. Interesting. New company is making a name for itself.

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