Gigabyte K8NF - 9 VS. Asus A8N-E

[Kidd]

which one is suggested on a AMd 64 3800 dual core 939 chip socket

[arela]

which one is suggested on a AMd 64 3800 dual core 939 chip socket

Hard to tell
I just finished my new pc: ASUS A8N-E / AMD 4200 x2.
Smooth install, flashing to newest BIOS via Windows was new for me, but worked fine.

Only thing i did not like, was the noise from the chipset fan, so no i just replaced it with a fanless Zalman heatsink.
Noise is gone, and temp is as it was.
(i don't intend to overclock much, maybe a little later)
I am not going to install Scope-cards on this pc, was not intended to, but i plan to install noah - then ----who knows!

2 * 12cm fans, one in front - 1240 rpm and the rear is a 900-1700 rpm fan at lowest speed.
And fanless graphic card ASUS N6600GT Silencer.

[Shayne White]

Those motherboards are both PCI-E, not AGP. Getting an nForce4-based board is pretty much "use at your own risk." If you really want to go with PCI-E, you might be better off getting the absolute latest Intel solution.

The only proven AMD route at the moment is an nForce3-based system WITHOUT dualcore. It seems that Intel's multiprocessing and PCI-E solutions work better than AMD at the moment.

Shayne

[garyb]

same old story. same for via....

[arela]

exactly - there must be a solution - i run via chipset for almost 3 years.

[fraz]

The only proven AMD route at the moment is an nForce3-based system WITHOUT dualcore. It seems that Intel's multiprocessing and PCI-E solutions work better than AMD at the moment.

Shayne

[/quote]

Sorry for butting in like this but I thought that the K8N nforce 3 mainboard would work with the dual core processors.

[garyb]

yes, but then he wrote this:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=19&2

[RadioActive]

Does it make a difference with Creamware to remove SP2 from XP?

[garyb]

in my experience, sp2 is no problem.