after scanning thru some sites ive decided that the Asus A7V600-X is one of the best ill get for under 60 quid. Just wanting to know what any of u mofo's think of this mobo before i let my g's flow.
if anyone has anyother suggestions or a better price please let us know, cheers
oh yeah the Asus A7V600-X is 46 quid from overclockers uk is that a decent price?
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
it's cheap, but don' expect too much from the Via KT600 chipset - it's pretty much trounced by the nVidia nForce2 400 Ultra, and prices on nForce2 also starts at £45
Plus, the -X versions apparantly don't support Dual Channel memory mode. I was trying to find out if to get that exact motherboard and couldnt figure out what the -X stands for (it doesnt say on their website) , eventually someone told me it was lacking the dual channel mode, and also as the guy says, the KT600 usually has inferior performance to the Nforce2 chipset.
Oh and a question, while we're here, is the MSI K7N2-L Delta motherboard a nForce2 400 Ultra chipset?
Originally Posted by directhex
the kt600 can't do dual-channel in ANY form
and if the description says "400" and "nforce 2" at some point & the cpu support lists 3200+, then it'll do the job
lol! can't believe i didn't know that!
SO what DOES the -X stand for?!
taking ur advice guys, thanks
found this on dabs is it any good
asus SoA nforce 2
thanks agai for the advice
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it only has single-channel, but then so did the on you were looking at. its bigger brother (the a7n8x deluxe) is a fine board, so sounds good - not bad on a budget
does dual channel make much of a difference?
im not wanting to overclock and really the board is just to replace my old n force 2 board that i am giving to a mate (it has onboard geforce 4 mx ) so he can build a cheap cheap system, he has gave me 5o quid for the motherboard and my modem so it isnt really an upgrade just a replacement.
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
was on toms hardware and apparently the Asus A7N8X is dual channel but im not sure about the x tag at the end does this mean it isnt duakl or not
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
the -X is not.
and it doesn't really make a lot of difference, athlons are hard-pushed to make use of the bandwidth
sorry for being such a noob but is this mobo dual channel
SoA nForce2 ATX AGP8x 3DDR A L
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Yup! seems ok for the money too!
thanks it does seem a bit of a deal, are biostar a decent brand?
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
kind of an unknown quantity. one of the small manufacturers, like chaintech. nothing remarkable about them really.
okay after even more searching i have now settled on and just purchased the Soltek SL-75FRN2-L "Golden Flame" seems very nice and the snazzy colour my tempt me to buy a windowed case at somepoint.
spe for it
please take a look and telll me i have'nt wasted 52 quid,
cheers
"The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being." Karl Marx
seems fairly standard, can't see anything intrinsically wrong with it. i'm a firm believer in buying boards from lesser known manufacturers (no, ECS Jetway & PC Chips aren't lesser known, they're widely known to be utter **** which isn't the same thing, before anyone comments), as my Chaintech & Albatron boards were light years ahead of my Abit board in terms of functionality, stability & general polish
not sure if the -L or the -RL is gold, one of them's a lovely shade of lavendar
i'm more of a sucker for silver anyway
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