Gamer's mobo?

User58 · 2003-09-11, 10:02 PM

I'm goin' whole hog on this upgrade. I'm leaning towards the A7N8X.

Can anyone talk me out of it?

TR_Exit · 2003-09-12, 09:55 PM

if its for an amd get a nforce chip. i recommed an abit nf7-s. its like 115 bux and soo sweet. probably one of the ebst gaming mobo's out there, and its pretty good priced.

Rbstr · 2003-09-12, 10:08 PM

Asus Mobo's are realy sweet the top of the line AMD has Every feture you could imagine on it (or that youwill ever need) so does the top and second of the line pentium boards, they all have some realy nice Bios oveclocking fetures, you tell it what percent you want to overclock it byt and is automaticaly changes the required settings, you can do it the old fashioned way to.

NoSurrender · 2003-09-13, 02:23 AM

Abit Boards are great... also good for overclockin like Abit NF7-S and abit NF7

User58 · 2003-09-13, 08:46 AM

Originally posted by TR_Exit
if its for an amd get a nforce chip. i recommed an abit nf7-s. its like 115 bux and soo sweet. probably one of the ebst gaming mobo's out there, and its pretty good priced.

I would have no problem paying that for a mobo. I'v been a card-carrying AMD/ASUS man since I started making my own machines 5 years ago. I would really have to be sold hard to switch though.

EDIT: I will admit that my first board was the EPOX something of other. It was one of the first and best AMD Slot A boards (for the long, wafer type cpu's.

Sentrosi · 2003-09-13, 06:22 PM

Epox still makes good mobos. I have an Epox 8RDA+ in my machine now. Stable as a rock. Haven't attempted to OC it yet, as I'm relatively new to the OC realm, but intend to do so as soon as I find a good watercooler.

User58 · 2003-09-13, 11:01 PM

[i]...I'm relatively new to the OC realm, but intend to do so as soon as I find a good watercooler. [/B]

I never did any oc'ing. But I'm thinkin' that watercooling is unesecarry since cpu's are so cheap that there is no good reason to run that hot ...

IMHO, don't waste your time oc'ing since the whole reason for it in the first place was cause the cpu's were too expensive. Now that is not the case. Of course you should do it if you just want to know how and experiment.

So, Water-cooled pc's are quiet, but they introduce an entirely new subsystem to think about... It just depends on your motivation.

PS: It would be nice to say that you had a water cooled PC. Have I been sufficiently uncommital?

Sputty · 2003-09-14, 04:49 AM

Any mobo that seems good from a major company (Asus, Epox, etc.) should be fine for gaming
I have an A7N8X

NoSurrender · 2003-09-14, 08:23 PM

sputty wut are your specs???

Sputty · 2003-09-14, 11:24 PM

Athlon XP 2200+
A7N8X mobo
Soundblaste Live
Radeon 9800pro
1 gig DDR 266 RAM

Daleon · 2003-09-16, 12:10 PM

Heh, well I've had almost all of the Nforce2 boards now. I started out with a A7N8X rev 1.1, then get rev 2.0. Then sold it, got the Abit NFS-7 rev 2.0 and had a bad bios flash so its on rma and got a DFI LanParty NFII board for use. I got my friend the Epox 8RDA+ when I built his system. So I think I can safely judge them all.

With all that heres my breakdown -

Abit NF7-S rev 2.0 = BEST OC'er, Raid SATA, Good Sound, Best Bios.

Asus A7N8X rev 2.0 = Highest quality, Bad OC'er, Raid SATA, Best Sound, Good Bios.

DFI LanParty NFII = Solid OC, Best Looking, Best Bundle, IDE Raid, Single SATA, Ok Sound, Not so good Bios.

Epox 8RDA+ = Reliable, memory picky, Ok but not great OC'er, Not best Bios tweakable.

NoSurrender · 2003-09-17, 12:18 AM

yay and can u tell its a 2.0 by the red PCB i got the Abit btw

[edit: i noted wut company]

TheRagingGerbil · 2003-09-18, 02:52 PM

I'm a big Leadtek fan...but you should look for a board with the n-force 2 chipset. I think it's the best.