AMD64 Board n Chip

[[GSV]Trig]

Need a new machine for someone at work, so, as I'm nice to myself at work I'm going to give them my XP2500/1Gb/NF7-S thats sat under my office desk and get me a new rig, after all its a reception machine and they dont need anything flash, and I, being IT chap need to have the best in the building, its all about the toys

Only downside being it has to come from EBuyer as thats where we get most of our work stuff from..

So, 754 or 939/940, needs to have AGP really instead of this PCI-E stuff as I just wanna swap out the minimum of stuff, guessing Newcastles the chip to go4 but its been so long since I was actaully into the hardware bleeding edge that I dunno wtf is going on atm....

[Thorsson]

Winchester over Newcastle as it will run cooler, but no stock at EBuyer. Get S939 and then probably the Asus A8V Rev.2 Deluxe (£67.10 for teh WiFi version on EBuyer and plenty of stock). You want a matched pair of memory sticks, OCZ is currently top dog.

[[GSV]Trig]

I've got RAM already, a pair of Kingston PC3200 stuff..

Winchester 3000+
Abit AV8 3rd Eye board...

Not gonna be buyin until begining of Jan anyways so they've got a few weeks to get them back into stock....
MmmMmmmm

[da_ging]

i just got the msi neo2 and a winchester 3000+ and despit a few niggles im still glad i went for the neo2 over the abit and asus boards

[DrMah]

i just got the msi neo2 and a winchester 3000+ and despit a few niggles im still glad i went for the neo2 over the abit and asus boards

mind explaining why? i'm about to buy a mobo for the winnie 3k+ myself in the comming week or 2 (as soon as the xmas prices drop)

[myth]

i just got the msi neo2 and a winchester 3000+ and despit a few niggles im still glad i went for the neo2 over the abit and asus boards

dont you just love where they put the IDE ports and flopy!

[da_ging]

dont you just love where they put the IDE ports and flopy!

yep , why they had to do them all so close together i dont know , was an absolute biatch trying to connect the floppy cable last with everything else installed in the chieftek bx case i have ,cpu socket orientation is poop aswell as my thermaltake silent tower now faces the wrong way and can only use 1 fan in a pull config

its still a good board tho

which ever a64 board you get see here (tis a god send of information) - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=46730

[myth]

yep , why they had to do them all so close together i dont know , was an absolute biatch trying to connect the floppy cable last with everything else installed in the chieftek bx case i have ,cpu socket orientation is poop aswell as my thermaltake silent tower now faces the wrong way and can only use 1 fan in a pull config

its still a good board tho

which ever a64 board you get see here (tis a god send of information) - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=46730

"TIP: turn off NV/ATI Speed Up in the hidden bios settings"

Theres a hiden bios? how do I get there?

[da_ging]

hold shift + f2 and press alt + f3 , as it also says in the guide about 6 lines further down

[myth]

hold shift + f2 and press alt + f3 , as it also says in the guide about 6 lines further down

yea.. I should have finnished reading it! It doesnt enable much any way....