Which Board

[trect]

True enough I'm working on the more opinions the merrier theory.... personally I have to read around approx. a thousand online reviews when making any major tech purchase. Usually that confuses me into not being able to make a decision. It's a great money saver

[Dark Horse]

Push it to the very edge overclocking - DFI nf4
Get a nice overclock but not the best - Asus A8n
Get a not very special overclock and pay loads - Abit fatality

There is a good roundup of the main nf4 boards here:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=28

[ifyouknowme]

the asus sli board is gd aslong as u get the deluxe one

[BUFF]

There is a good roundup of the main nf4 boards here:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=28

read the comments thread though, there are some very strange things going on in that review.
Whilst I have an Ultra rather than the Fatality they are extremely similar boards, use the same BIOS & that just isn't representative.

[Dark Horse]

I can't seem to find any roundups with abit boards in them but check the conclusions of these:

The most wide roundup with individual reviews
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1834862,00.asp


http://www.legionhardware.com/html/doc.php?id=417
http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...?articleid=645
http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/m...4/4way/017.htm
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/nvid...dup/page24.asp

This is a good page to start from if you want more roundups:
http://www.amdboard.com/nforce4.html

I have nothing against abit, I've just not heard great things about (from an overclocking perspective) about the AN8 Fatality.

[BUFF]

The most wide roundup with individual reviews
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1834862,00.asp

You can easily discount this one - either they are clueless or they have the world's worst FX-55 (I vote clueless):
"DFI's board managed a slightly better overclock than the Abit nForce 4 Ultra board, with the bus speed moving from 200MHz up to 207MHz." & they only got 205 out of the EPoX ...

The 2 biggest complaints about the Fatality AN8 from an overclockers point of view were 2.8Vdimm & price.
Both have been addressed by the regular AN8 Ultra (indeed by the even cheaper AN8 V2.0 & I presume the AN8-V although I've not seen it confirmed that the -V has 3.55Vdimm)

You other links don't even have an ABIT board in them ...

I've just not heard great things about (from an overclocking perspective) about the AN8 Fatality.
Check out Hexus, HardOCP, Insanetek,OCtools & PCPer's reviews then ...