Hey huys,

im asking this on behalf of a friend who wants to move to amd 64.

can anyone recommend a good amd 64 939 motherboard, with a agp slot.

Duel channel ddr
with good oc potential ie pci lock etc

any ideas guys

ASUS A7V600
1024 PC 3200 Mushkin cl2 blue ddr
AGP XFX 6600GT oc 560 mhz gpu 1180 mhz ram
XP BARTON-M 2500 @ 212x11.5=2438 mhz
80 GIG SATA+80 gig IDE
550W PSU

You're definitely gonna want something with an Nforce 3 chipset. I don't have experience overclocking those CPU's as of yet, so I can't say which particular brand to go with.

"...but in my defense, it was dark, I was drunk, and it was delicious!"

You'r looking for that board I think:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se
archTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1174
911&CatId=1745

I'm normally into Abit when looking
motherboards, but this MSI board is
availble in AGP and it's using the NForce3
chipset + good oc potential.

AMD 64 3200+ 754
Abit KV8 Pro
1go 2x512 DDR 400 Kingston
FX5700LE
160 gb SATA Maxtor
80 gb WD

Asus A8V Deluxe "WiFi"

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1617&page=10

Well, I suppose I have to go for this one ;)

AMD64Bit 3800+ Socket 939
WinXP Pro.
Nvidia:6800GT
Dane Electronic Pro. Dual 1024MB 400MHz RAM
Tagan 480Watt PSU: 28Amps on +12volt rail.
Asus A8V Deluxe "WiFi" M/Board -
AquaGate

This one is far more detailed:

http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q3/asus-a8vdeluxe/index.x?pg=1

AMD64Bit 3800+ Socket 939
WinXP Pro.
Nvidia:6800GT
Dane Electronic Pro. Dual 1024MB 400MHz RAM
Tagan 480Watt PSU: 28Amps on +12volt rail.
Asus A8V Deluxe "WiFi" M/Board -
AquaGate

cheers quiksilver board looks nice but there isnt a pci agp lock, have you got any probs overclocking

its not a bad board, and what is pci agp lock?

p4 at 3330mhz
512mb pc3200 dual channel
80gb wd hdd
8x agp geforce 6200
Audigy 2 ZS
dvd and cd burner
only 15 so i am tight on cash

pheonix991:
pci agp lock:
PCI/AGP locks keep the clock speeds at their correct settings e.g. 33/66mhz, when these get too high your system may become unstable and cause any RAID arrays or devices to not work correctly or quit all together.

firetrap:
I don't O/C like I used to, in fact I became a bit of an anti-O/C er at one time, hehhehe, but I did try the set 10% as available in BIOS just to see what happened and had no probs.You can,of course, go to manual and take it as far as it will go. Like the article says it ( In Response 4 ) is very much a " try it and see ". They did take it over the 10% and it seems to be fine for them. The bottom line is, nomatter what m/b, ram, cpu etc. that you get, they all have their limits after which things go wrong. But if you want a good stable board at least you can't go wrong with this one. Mind you, users of other brands will prob say the same and I respect that. " You pays yer money, and yer takes yer choice. " :)

AMD64Bit 3800+ Socket 939
WinXP Pro.
Nvidia:6800GT
Dane Electronic Pro. Dual 1024MB 400MHz RAM
Tagan 480Watt PSU: 28Amps on +12volt rail.
Asus A8V Deluxe "WiFi" M/Board -
AquaGate

Its A BIOS feature on the nvidia chipset motherboards where you can lock the pci bus and agp bus frequency to 33/66 mhz. You can then raise the front side bus to overclock the cpu and mem without risking data corruption on the optical and hard drives. They tend to have difficuty when you reach the 37/74 mhz level.

The Asus is a via chipset and the pci bus speed is a devider of the fsb speed so you can only oc so much before effecting the drives.

ASUS A7V600
1024 PC 3200 Mushkin cl2 blue ddr
AGP XFX 6600GT oc 560 mhz gpu 1180 mhz ram
XP BARTON-M 2500 @ 212x11.5=2438 mhz
80 GIG SATA+80 gig IDE
550W PSU

I believe the nforce4 ultra or SLI chipset is the way to go?

At the moment I'm leaning towards the MSI Diamond myself.Wifi and bluetooth is swinging it for me.Closely followed by the DFI Lanparty.

Here's a round up.....http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2358

Tt Lanfire
nf7-s v2.0
XP-m 2500@210x11
SP 97
512mb pc3200
Jou Jye 550w psu
FX5600
WDCaviar 160gb sata
WDCaviar 160gb sata

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