Biostar M7NCG400 RTL or Shuttle MN31N?

Mr.Rotory

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Biostar M7NCG400 RTL or Shuttle MN31N? The fight for the cheapest integreted comp

Biostar M7NCG400 RTL or Shuttle MN31N?

Building a computer for a friend of a friend, kind of. The problem is that he is so dam cheap, so I'm looking for economy mobo's like ie: Biostar M7NCG400 RTL or Shuttle MN31N, which brand is better?

Also I"m putting in it a 2000+ palamino so it might run hot, the palamino is currently in my abit nf7-s and runs pretty cool at 1.75 v, I'm thinking i'm gonna put a volcano7 on it, think it will be sufficient?

BTW the

 

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If you want to OC the Biostar

If you want Soundstorm and Firewire the Shuttle

Volcano 7 should be fine

Regards, Balrog

 

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I just built a cheap PC using the Biostar M7NCG 400, PC2700 Buffalo RAM, Antec 2600AMB Case w/300PSU, 2x Panaflos 80MM, CoolerMaster Aero Lite HSF, and AMD 2100+ for under $300. The PC was for a friend that plays games every once in a while but it's main use is email and browsing. Both are good boards but since this was a low budget system I went with the lower priced Biostar.

 

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Nicely done YSJ! That should be a good little rig for them. The one in your sig looks excellent as well, did you get a DUT3C or DLT3C on your XP1700+? Have you OC'd it yet? I almost bought one of those Solteks, sweet boards!

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Balrog, I got the AMD 1700+ DLT3C and I ordered it from newegg back in August. It was back when they had a lot if the T'Bred "B" and no sight of any "A" cores, but right after newegg started to send of a mix of both.

I have not OC'd yet but was planning on it since I bought the Kingston HyperX RAM for that very reason, and the Soltek board goes really well with everything it booted up with no problems at all.

 

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Nice! Have Fun! Those DLT3Cs kick butt, usually 2.4ghz on air easy with a good HSF. I've got a bud trying to track one down for me, just got my DUT3C currently, but it'll do close to 2400mhz.

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• Jan 25, 2004

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Will overclocking software be able to raise the FSB on the MN31N? I'm considering that board but I need to know if I can bypass the officially supported FSB speeds (that are the only options give by the bios).

 

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You can set FSB and memory timings in BIOS, multipliers and voltages must be done on CPU. If you're looking to OC a mATX nForce MoBo check out Epox's 8RGMI $83.00 @NewEgg, full OC BIOS of 8RDA+ & 8RGA+ No Soundstorm but nice C-Media 9739A 6 channel.

Regards, Szandor

 

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• Jan 25, 2004

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Yeah, Balrog is right. You are thinking of the original bios released for the MN31N. When I got mine in october it had the full fsb and memory timings options in it already.

 

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• Jan 25, 2004

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Yeah, I didn't realize how old the reviews were. But the MN31N is still the only mATX board with Soundstorm so that's what it's going to have to be.