DFI Or Abit

[grand_witch]

I have just received my xp-m and now am stumped on the motherboard front. Do I go for the NF7-s V2 or the DFI infinity?

Bearing in mind I am using watercooling Danger Den RBX which would be the best. Price is not too much of an issue as we are talking £20 difference.

The boards seem balanced in terms of features.

[BUFF]

The DFI may ultimately be a little faster but will probably be more hassle (they have a list of known issues - visit the DFI forum at amdmb.com & read the stickies & the unofficial faq). If you want fsb then the DFI is the 1.
If SATA RAID is important to you then the Sil3114 on the DFI has writes 20% slower than the 3112 on the ABIT.

I have an Infinity & 2 NF7-S V2.0's - I doubt that I will be buying a DFI AMD64 board even though my Infinity does 260fsb/2.7Ghz with a mobile.

[daniel_owen_uk]

What's onboard sound like on dfi? Is it as good as abit?

[blockers]

I dont know very much about the DFI......but general opinion says teh Abit is the best for AMD...

[BUFF]

What's onboard sound like on dfi? Is it as good as abit?

it's the same MCP-T & realtek but you get spdif in as well as out.