Which s939 agp board? Looking for stability / reliability

I am going to build a rig for my friend but he wants to stay agp for money reasons. I want to use a s939 so I can use a 3200 venice. But I want the board that is the best in terms of STABILITY! I don't want him to buy something new and not be able to run the pc without a massive bios overhaul (like my dfi ). I want it to be able to take whatever RAM I throw in there and run fine. I'm looking at the boards here (The high end ones): CLICK ME!

I'm sure there must be a lot of people with these boards that can give me some input. Thanks.

I got a Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra. Socket 939 and stable as heck. AGP too, running 250x11 with 1.55vcore no problems at all.

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As mentioned in the other thread(s), I'd go with the DFI Lanparty NF3 Ultra-D.

No board is going to be perfect, but if he's going to run at stock speeds the K8N Neo2 Platinum is a good board. I haven't had any problems with my board at all since I got it. (Knocks on wood...) I'm using some no-name value ram that isn't "supported" according to the K8N's support website, but it's rock-stable. On the other hand the board is an ageing design. If I was to get another board that was AGP, it would be an MSI or DFI....leaning towards the DFI though. (The K8N Neo2 Platinum deals with %overvolts. This means that you have to bring out the calculator to find out what % overvolt and what VID you want to use to get a certain voltage.)

I can't remember the manufacturer, but there is a board (I'm sure that there's more than one version of these...) that has both AGP and PCI-E. I have no idea how they perform though, but if they're good it might be something to look into. It will make upgrading later much cheaper.

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As mentioned in the other thread(s), I'd go with the DFI Lanparty NF3 Ultra-D.

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I searched "s939 agp" and "939 agp" with a whole 3 topics and nothing what I wanted. Maybe you could use your high level search skills to tell me better words to type in. More opinions please
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Neo2 or K8NS Ultra. Don't get the DFI NF3 Ultra-D. It's immature BIOS, booting issues with different ram config's, and other issues need to be worked out and at this point nothing is really happening.

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Used in just about every socket 939 pro-daw (audio workstation) for a reason...

DFI Lanparty NF3 Ultra-D.


thats the board i would go ...I just like the way it supports and then you can upgrade that one when you go dual core