should i get an a8v deluxe?

[Pete]

guy on hlfallout forums told me that the asus boards beat the abit and msi equivalent, is this true?

how old is this board? will it make my system slow down, because of oldness.......

thanks alot fellas
Pete

[JimmyBoy]

hey, i quite like this board, its been very stable for me....

only thing im furious about tho is since i upgraded the bios to 1008 i have no options for adjusting the v core / multiplier.....

why not save up 4 an nforce board tho, duel gpu goodness, if u can afford that sort of cash, i cant lol

[Pete]

ah first hand experience,

yeh i too cannot afford a nforce 4

do u play any games? if so which ones and how many frames do u pick up?
do u have and benchmarks?
my system wil be simarlar to yours, except for a 6600gt instead of a 9700 and a 3000+ instead of 3200+

thanks alot buddy
Pete

[JimmyBoy]

well, its a fairly new setup for me so i havent played a lot of games, but hl2 and css both run nicely on high quality no aa tho that'll be down to gpu i spose

[Jon-E-Durex]

I brought one and although I've got an old GFX (geforce 4600) with a FX 55, the board works well, with really good features. Being palying Doom3 and Farcry a lot and had no problems at all. The only problem I have is their is no PCI-E or SLI, as I'm going to get 2 new GFX's. If you look around a lot of MOBO already don't support AGP cards.

So if your planning on a new GFX as well, you may want to wait for a PCI_E solution, else you could spent a wad of cash which won't be supported in a year or so.

And make sure you get revision 2, if your buying one.

[Pete]

well i think im gonna veer of these boards, after chatting around

might go for a nf4 SLI?
only around 50 more, i reckon i might be able to squeeze that extra money outa my account
hmm two 6600gts? all reviews said they beat one 6800ultra when in SLI?
which sounds nice, although some have said that SLI brings down CPU speed?
is that true?