Nforce4 Ultra

[nvening]

I want to get an Nforce4 Ultra mobo, i want to get one of the cheapest ones, what ones are these and is there anything i should look out for, ie y they are cheap.

[Lee H]

I want to get an Nforce4 Ultra mobo, i want to get one of the cheapest ones, what ones are these and is there anything i should look out for, ie y they are cheap.

It really depends what features you want. I bought the A8N-SLi not for its SLi capabilities at the moment, but for the Nvidia Serial ATA support as well as the SiI3114 and its HUMUNGOUS range of USB 2.0 ports

A lot of people are registering their interests in the MSI neo4 platinum and also the gigabyte GA-K8NF-9.

Must go as theres a new bios is out for mine and I need to mail it home for flashing later

[shiato storm]

the gigabyte k8nf-9 is cheapest i've found...as an nforce 4 board

[nvening]

Well i dont really need features, just one or two sata drives two IDE cd drives and i do want it to do wired lan but all nforce4 have the gigbit lan thing rite? Mabe i should think abt the normal nforce chip. Im getting an A64 939 3500+ winchester. And i want to have dual channel support.

EDIT: after looking on the Nvidia site i do want ultra. Whats the cheapest (but not dogy)

[shiato storm]

dunno. i was due to get an MSI Neo2 plat. (which is nforce3 ultra) but scan ran out of stock between order and delivery (?!?) so i'm pondering whether the gigabyte is a better bet as its nforce4 and can do dual channel etc... plus its pci-e.

[Starburn]

I want an Epox 9NPA+ ultra .. haven't seen them anywhere yet though

[nvening]

Get the nforce4, and check here again to see whats the best. I want it for the pci-e mostly will that be cheap star burn?

[shiato storm]

pci-e is, like for like, cheaper...my only thought is nforce4 too new? seems like nforce3 only just came out and we're already onto 4!
there is a question of stability though, hence why i ask about comparison between the two. I 'hear' the gigabyte one isn't as stable as the MSI one, and the MSI one has lots more in the way of settings you can change yourself - gigabyte's not so hot on that...

[nvening]

Well nforce4 is just out and the inquirer has been going on about nforce5 for months, although its kinda different cause nforce5 is for pentium4. Its not tooo new, sure it may have a few bugs, especially on sli but that will be fixed with updates, and there are not so many bugs with nforce4 ultra.

[shiato storm]

hmmm....well, nforce3 ultra vs nforce4...?

[nvening]

The MSi board says "Supports a maximum memory size up to 4GB with ECC" does that mean i need EEC RAM or is that just with 4GB

[skuzgib]

I *think* it means it's optional

[nvening]

Dont make me email them!, ok i will

[shiato storm]

no I don't think it means it has to be EEC, i always thought eec memory wasn't accepted by many things, i could be wrong...then again perhaps I should be asking - why get 4gig of ram?

[nvening]

I dont want (well i do but thats not the point) 4GB of RAM! lol. Thats was just a driect quote from the msi site, i thought it may apply to all amounts of RAM.

[shiato storm]

yeah well the max i'm ever ever ever going to need is 2G... and it can do that so whats the worry. my bro has an msi and its very stable all the time so thats why i'm going for this one...well, i would have it now if scan didn't have it out of stock (linky), think i'm gonna wait a week...not much will change til then.