recommend me a MB

[toadoftoadhall]

Just returned a Asus A8v Deluxe to savestore.com, for sending me a second hand unit instead of new, and looking for somethng to replace it rather than the A8v.
Needs to be 939
pref AGP video
about 4-5 pci slots.

toad

[OmarSantiago]

Bite the bullet and get something with PCI-E if you're going to get a S939 board you may as well enjoy a small measure of future-proofing while you're at it. Hell, go SLi too so at least you can add a little more redundancy to your system Of course, this pretty much washes out the chances of 4-5 PCI slots free and in my case, I'm down to just one now

[sawyen]

ABIT AV8 3rd Eye? MSI Neo2 Plat? Asrock TGi?

[dave87]

I think you will regret having an AGP S939 board in the future, as the PCI-E graphics cards are the future (as much as I hate to admit it). The only benifit to having an AGP board is if you've only recently bought a high end AGP graphics card such as an X850. Otherwise as OmarSantiago said, bite the bullet, unless that is really not an option.

Hope this helps

Dave

[merlin2001]

what about the ASRock ULi M1695 board - £50 pounds get's you both AGP and PCI-e at a decent speed. There's a good review bouncing around on another website. can't remember the URL at this time. Microdirect has it available. can't find it on scan etc. at the moment..

[Hottentot]

DFI LanParty UT NF3 Ultra, Epox EP-9NDA3J, depends where you are buying from. Plenty of time to get a PCI express board in the future when you need a new graphics card.

[dave87]

I personally have not had the best of experiences with ASRock boards, but they werent my machines, so I can't comment on what they have been subjected to. Best going with well known names such as Abit, Asus, DFI, Gigabyte or MSI. You can pay a slight premium for them, but in the long run I have found it to be worth it. Thats based upon my personal experiences, so others feel free to disagree.

Dave

[Hottentot]

Here is the review of the Asrock board http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2524

Very cheap from Microdirect, might be worth a go.

[just_laze]

heard nothing but good things about ASROCK's latest offering.

[peterb]

Just because savestore gave you bad service doesn't mean you should rule out Asus again! I've always found them to be excellent products...

[ajones]

If you're an NVidia fan, best go for PCI-E. From what I've read, from the 7800 onwards, they aren't supporting AGP.

[Sabre]

I have just got my hands on a Asus A8N-SLI Platinium. One of the better future proofing boards. 939 (takes all three flavours of althon 64 chips), nforce 4 and sli. A worthy buy! I have seen it on offer this week for £104 inc VAT but I cant remember where .... :-(

[rajindergill]

I would recommend the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. Very good reviews, good feature set, about £60+vat (£64+vat with wifi module). Had no problems with it. I bought one to upgrade my machine as I already had 6800GT AGP, and did not see the point of spending £200 on new graphics card with the same performance.