Mother of all a64 mobos?

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• Jun 8, 2004

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What are the best current a64 mobos and what have they been able to pull off?

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Uh, maybe we can make this a little more narrow: What boards/chipsets have 4+ sata ports and a working pci/agp lock?

 

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trueplaya4ever8

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• Jun 8, 2004

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the older boards that everyone seemed to like were the shuttle an50r and gigabyte k8n pro.. as for the new boards people should be finally getin some of them to give us more there results.

 

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• Jun 9, 2004

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i'm getting the msi k8n neo platinum in a day or two, i'll update everyone on how it performs

 

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Keep me posted Calculus.

 

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I'm seriously considering the MSI K8N Neo. My memory will go to DDR515 but with only DDR400 in their bios menu, I guess my memory is a waste in this setup now. CPU will be AMD64 3200+

Also the MSI board dosen't have AGP/PCI lock does it? I've seen some reviews of hitting 300FSB with a 7 muliplier. I'll be hoping for 2.4Ghz with the MSI and the 3200+

 

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The Neo Platinum does has an agp lock. The ram in automode goes in spec with the fsb

viperlair.com said:

In the DRAM Configuration page, you can configure the maximum memory speed depending on the ram you have. Setting it to Auto will default to to the CPU's FSB

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Also, I'm not sure where I read it but I'm fairly sure that runing out of spec won't kill performance an a64 boards as it does for nf2. If anyone could give some verification of that that'd be great.

 

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• Jun 13, 2004

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Ordered MSI K8N NEO , Just deciding where the best price for AMD64 3200+ is here in Canada. Looks like $370-$399cdn. Hoping to have system together middle of week. I'm doing a ****load of tests with my 3.0C at stock and 3.6Ghz to compare the AMD64 to. 3dmark 03 and 01, AM3, PCmark04, Sandra CPU Arithmetic, etc.

 

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• Jun 13, 2004

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the MSI K8N looks nice. My leadtek K8N has 4 sata ports and an AGP lock, but no PCI lock. Not really a big deal unless you have phase-change though.