New mobo Asus A8N-E

dtb · Post by **dtb** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:21 pm

hi all,

got to get a new pc and picked up some components so far:

mobo asus A8N-E
processor amd athlon64 4000+ S939 SanDiego
2048 MB MDT DDR-RAM
graphics card EAX800GTO 256 MB, 2DTV, DDR3

... and so on ...

anyone who does have experiences esp. with this mobo (only 3 pci slots ...

but has been tested as fast an reliable ...
I do have 2 pulsar II-cards ... are these compatible with the setup above ...?

cheers
tom

any hints welcome

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Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:09 pm

AFAIK the nForce 4 chipset is incompatible with Scope because the PCI bus is tacked onto the PCI-E bus, and the PCI-E bus eats up all the bandwidth to the memory. Dual-core CPUs are supposed to make the PCI bus work better under that configuration, but some of us (including me) have not gotten Scope to work properly with dual-core.

If you want solid reliability, you're going to have to get an nForce 3 board with AGP. Unfortunately, ASUS doesn't make one. However, the GigaByte K8NSC-939 board is really good and solid.

Somebody remarked recently that we're entering the dark ages of audio -- and that's probably true until they give the PCI bus full bandwidth again.

Shayne

dtb · Post by **dtb** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:54 am

Thanx for the info! I think I am going for an GigaByte K8NSC-939-mobo!
cheers and a happy new year 2006!
tom