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4 mobos, which one should I get?
My current mobo has a weird problem where if I turn off my computer for an extended period or even do a hardware change, the bios resets. It's kind of a pain clearing the cmos every time I do this so I'm looking for a new mobo. I want one where you can lock the AGP/PCI speed, I believe the new nforce2 boards do this but I don't know if other chipsets can do it also. There are 4 boards I'm looking at, the Albatron is what I'm leaning towards. Since I have a window case, I want to go with a blue/purple color mobo.
Shuttle KT400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "AK39N" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-150-037&catalog=22&depa=1
GIGABYTE KT600 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "GA-7VT600-L" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-193&catalog=22&depa=1
GIGABYTE nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "GA-7N400-L" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-194&catalog=22&depa=1
Albatron nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "KX18D Pro" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-170-113&catalog=22&depa=1
Importance:
1.) function (AGP/PCI lock needed)
2.) looks good in an Antec SX1000 Blue Tower case w/ window
3.) cost
4.) higher cpu support (Barton)
My current mobo has a weird problem where if I turn off my computer for an extended period or even do a hardware change, the bios resets. It's kind of a pain clearing the cmos every time I do this so I'm looking for a new mobo. I want one where you can lock the AGP/PCI speed, I believe the new nforce2 boards do this but I don't know if other chipsets can do it also. There are 4 boards I'm looking at, the Albatron is what I'm leaning towards. Since I have a window case, I want to go with a blue/purple color mobo.
Shuttle KT400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "AK39N" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-150-037&catalog=22&depa=1
GIGABYTE KT600 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "GA-7VT600-L" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-193&catalog=22&depa=1
GIGABYTE nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "GA-7N400-L" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-194&catalog=22&depa=1
Albatron nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "KX18D Pro" -RETAIL
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-170-113&catalog=22&depa=1
Importance:
1.) function (AGP/PCI lock needed)
2.) looks good in an Antec SX1000 Blue Tower case w/ window
3.) cost
4.) higher cpu support (Barton)
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