new mobo recomendations needed

[starside]

hi,

Ever since my problems as described here: http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=14822

I have decided to buy a new mobo.

It must be a socket A, with S-ATA. Not too bothered about onboard sound or LAN. Ideally it would have dual channel memory ability.

Any recommendations? - budget about 50 quid.

Cheers

PC

[mike_w]

I'd say something nForce 2 based, like this: http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/catalo...products_id=49

[Agent]

http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/catalo...products_id=45

£12 over (+P&P), but its really worth it !.
I had quite a few NForce boards before the NF7-S, and i wouldnt change this for anything !

[starside]

i cant seems to find if that has S-ATA or not (the ASUS A7N8X-X). It looks like it on the pic.

I have SATA HDDs, so ite pretty important.

Cheers

[Agent]

ASUS A7N8X-X dont have SATA iirc (deluxe does though)
NF7-S does

[mike_w]

ASUS A7N8X-X dont have SATA iirc (deluxe does though)
NF7-S does

Whoops! The NF7-S is probably the best board for Socket A (in my opinion), and I think its definately worth the extra £12 over your budget!

[GreenPiggy]

NF7-S all the way.
Used to own the A7N8X and definitely prefer this baby

[chrisf6969]

I havent seen any of these mobo's hit the market yet, but I would think they would be the board to have. They'll use Nvidia's new southbridge thats got native SATA, RAID 0,1,0+1 that can span from IDE to SATA!!, GigaLan, "hardware" firewall, etc.
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...ce_2_400gb.php

If not NF7-S is the way to do. AN7's arent too bad either.

[Agent]

AN7's are pants. They hardly overclock aswell as the NF7-S, and are aimied at overclockers :\

[Apex]

no sound storm....pftt after all this time they still not betted the nf2 platform

[BUFF]

The SATA on the new southbridge chips (400R & 400Gb) will be better implemented as it won't use the PCI Bus to transfer DATA (you won't have SoundStorm on board audio though).
Some people doing high bandwidth TV/Video things managed to saturate the PCI bus but for normal use it is fine.

ABIT's boards with these new chipsets are due out this month.