Gigabite K8N-Pro

[chayos00]

With the Gigabite K8N-Pro and its AGP/PCI lock does that also lock the speed of the onboard SATA controller? I'm just wondering cuz my ASUS KV8 Deluxe didn't have the lock and I the onboard SATA controller died after running my FSB speed at 220mhz. So I was wanting the Gigabite board for the AGP/PCI lock.

But just want to know again if it locks the onboard controller as well?

Jason

[Malichite]

I believe that the only A64 mobo's with locked AGP/PCI are curently the nForce3 250's (not sure about the new Via800 Pro). The nForce3 150's have a working AGP lock, but not PCI (also controls SATA). I currently have a Gigabyte K8N-Pro and I can verify that when OCed the PCI lock doesn't work. Supposedly you can use ClockGen to help once in windows, but not sure.

-Mali

[Jsmooth65]

my K8N-Pro's PCI lock works fine.

ClockGen says

CPU
2200.00

HTT
220.00

Memory
220.00

AGP
66.80

PCI
33.40

Make sure you overclock in the BIOS to at least 201 if you're going to use ClockGen to do your overclock. I just use the BIOS overclock settings though.

and my onboard Sata RAID is working just fine at these speeds.

[chayos00]

Now I've seen Asus has their K8N-E Deluxe which is a NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. I've been debating which one I should get the Gigabyte one with the NVIDIA nForce3 150 chipset. One question is what's really the difference between the 150 and 250 chipset? Plus does anyone have any idea when the new Asus board will be sold?

[trueplaya4ever8]

some of the 150's do have a pci lock, maxvla's shuttle did 338fsb
and guatams k8n pro does 250..

[jcniest5]

Originally posted by chayos00
I've been debating which one I should get the Gigabyte one with the NVIDIA nForce3 150 chipset. One question is what's really the difference between the 150 and 250 chipset?

I don't recommend getting anything with the 150 chipset. The new NF3 250GB chipset is the way to go. So, just wait at least a month or so and the new mobos from the majority of mobo makers will appear. Asus' version is very appealing to me.

Look here:

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=319753

As far as feature differences between the two chipsets, you need to read! There are many articles about them everywhere.