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On Tuesday 04 July 2006 06:26, Hamish Marson wrote: |
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> Hi all. |
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> My son's PC died (Bad caps) so he's getting my old one (Asus A8V with |
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> AMD64 3200) and I'm going to buy a new motherboard & a 4200 X2 |
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> processor. The question is, what's a good motherboard nowadays for |
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> AMD64 x2 processors? |
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I'm using an Asus A8N-SLI Premium with my Opteron 180 and love it. Haven't |
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had any problems with any of the nvidia chipset features, it's stable (30+ |
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days uptime running foldingathome 24/7 on both cores), and, if you only run |
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one PCI-E graphics card, you'll have an x8 PCI-E slot for |
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[you-fill-in-the-blank]. Sound is not audiophile-quality but is definitely |
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more than decent. There are two GigE ports [one nvidia and one Marvell (uses |
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the SKGE driver)]. There are only 3 PCI slots, however, but you could easily |
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make up the difference with the extra x8 and x4 PCI-E slots and adaptors. |
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Bill |
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