Which Motherboard Should I Get Guys?!
 

Neither one.

Here is the one you should buy. EpoX 8RDA+ nForce2 Motherboard

newegg has it for 88 i think

Nuttin but the best. :)

No such animal called "2000+ Barton".

Don't be stupid, go with the Epox board. The top Nforce2 boards out are the Asus A7N8X (Deluxe) or the Epox 8RDA(+) / 8RGA(+).

Do your homework b4 you get something you'll regret.

True that...

My 2 choices would be either the Epox or the Abit out of the nforce boards. If you don't want to go with the nforce chipset then get the Abit AT7-MAX2.

How does the Asus A7N8X measure up?

Don't you mean your 2 choices would be either Epox or Asus for the Nforce boards? Is that a typo? :confused:

negative I would choose the abit over the asus

Epox 8RDA3+ is the best

not 8RDA+
but 8RDA3+

you gotta get the nforce 2 ultra 400 chipset
not the old A1 nforce2 for 8RDA+

also look into Abit
check out www.motherboardfaqs.com to get aquinted with nforce2 before you buy
and nforcershq.com as well
because it can be problematic if you have bad luck

Well I went with the Asus A7N8X Deluxe version which showed the nForce 2 Ultra chipset and came with a AMD 2.17 proc. Cant wait to get all my parts in and put together in my new case.

Why do I recommend the Epox or the Asus so badly??? Because they are the best Nforce2 boards on the market right now. They were designed for the power user in mind. Besides having high performance, they have every BIOS setting under the Sun which comes in very handy when fine tuning your system.

If your content with stock settings with no flexability, then go with the board you like the best. But if you want a board that gives you flexabilty when overclocking or fine tuning, then you can't go wrong with the Asus or Epox.

Why do you think AccurateImage and myself acheive such high benchmarks? Because we use the best there is. :nod:

bah hahaha I have owned all the nforce boards and by far the best overall was the the a7n8x delux revision 2.0 with the ultra 400 chipset, did 208fsb rock stable with no volt mods on the last pc I built and netted me a 20056 3d mark. The two worst boards I have used overall were both epox boards and one went back to fried and the other in my girls pc because it came from newegg. The msi rocks but do not expect to overclock it at all. Hell even my shuttle is now running at 194x2 fsb with no volt mods and I am getting the new ultra 400 shuttle that will be on shelves middle of this month that has full overclocking features. Not bad when I can score 18,127 with a toaster. should be able to hit 20,000+ with the new ultra 400. no matter what, make sure your board has the ultra 400 northbridge, the old version sucks a fatty and you have to v-mod it to do anything. the new chip is all black and no silver middle and it has a big ultra400 logo on it.

I would go with the Gigabyte GA-7NNXP nForce 2 Ultra400 chipset motherboard.

Check it out here->

http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/...s_GA-7NNXP.htm

looks like a good baord but have seen no improvments other than techie paper improvments over say an a7n8x delux which you can get for about $70 cheaper, almost enough to buy another week 306 barton haha :)

blah, you just didn't know how to set up the Epox AI. :P

tried for 2 weeks on both *LOL* must have received duds, but I use sata raid ect... the epox just does not have the goods for me, the asus is super cheap now and has loads of killer features.

I see that most of you are running the ATI card. My question is what brand of the card did you all buy? And if you had it to do over again would you all still buy the same card or go with a FX 5800 ultra or FX 5900 Ultra?

I run a 9800 and after seeing how far this baby overclocks I would stick with this card for the price I paid for it :)

tru dat

:nod:

Ok but what brand is your cards? Is it the ATI brand or from Asus, Hercules, or some other brand?

ATI OEM are always the best. They tend to OC higher than any other brand.

whatever you do DO NOT GET AN ECS!!!

if i wasnt going to use it for a server i would pour gasoline on it and lite it up....and take pics just for your viewing pleasure.

:grimreaper:

....but i do have other old POS hardware that will never be used....hehehe >:)

out of the sapphire oem and the boxed 9800 pro's my boxed version had about 10mhz faster ddr... but on the 9700 pro's the sapphire oem was a sick fast overclocker, the fic version was the worst overclocker.

Good board, will last a long time and do the job well :)

Did ya already get it..?

It'll be picked up tomorrow and we'll most likely have it in by tomorrow, unless it is anything like when i built my system, in which case it won't be in for another month :lol: . I told MIK3 to go with the MSI too, since he isn't really going to be competing with CiKoTiC or accurateimage, and since he doesn't want the speed as much as the quality.

I had a 2200+ once. By far the worst AMD chip I ever owned. 8)

Good luck with yours! :wavey:

what model did you have..? and he is not overclocking, I had a week 249 2200+ that I bought and tested before install >:) for a buddy and it did about the same as the week 48 2100+ I had. Was a .13 chip though, not .15

dunno, was right when they first came out.

ah that was a .15, those chips sucked a fatty when it came to overclocking hahaha!

you DO know AS3 voids your warranty now, don't you?

yeah so friggin what hahaha :) I think everything I own has a voided warrenty for some reason, that is why I buy some stuff at fried electronics hehehe and all traces of as3 can be removed with goof off or similar products :)

Well ya'll I think I am going to head to Bestbuy tomorrow and grab a ATI 5800 Pro and slap that in with all the new hardware I got. I can't wait to see how everything runs and looks. This is the most upgrading I have ever done all at once and it is quite a jump over everything I have now. Now how much added preformance would I see if I did over clock stuff at his point? Just to tell u what I am running or going to be running.

Athlon XP 2700 (with a CoolMaster Aero 7 Heatsink on it.)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
512 Meg DDR Kingston 2.5cl
ATI 5800 Pro 128meg
I also had to pick up a new PowerSupply got a Antec 450watt.

BTW I have never overclocked anything, mainly because I can't afford new parts should I screw it up, and I don't have the know how either.