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Name: Fennerman
Date: December 1, 2005 at 15:35:07 Pacific
OS: wXP
CPU/Ram: old nice sempron, 512 ram
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Take a look at this two DFI motherboards:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1523013&sku=D452-2034

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1356361&CatId=2016

It's the price difference really worth it? cause they both have sli and support the same things. It's the expensive one much better for overclocking or I can also get great overclocking with the cheap one?

Thanks... this is my final thing to decide and then I go order my system.



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Name: Sabertooth
Date: December 1, 2005 at 18:42:32 Pacific
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If you insist on DFI, go with the cheaper of the two, it's got everything you'd need and more. Otherwise look at the EP-9NPA+Ultra from EPox it's listed @ $105.00 on Newegg and it is pretty good.

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Response Number 2
Name: jam
Date: December 1, 2005 at 20:34:36 Pacific
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reconsider making any purchases from TigerD:

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1983.html

compare to Newegg:

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2121.html

Are you really gonna use SLi?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136163

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Response Number 3
Name: Fennerman
Date: December 2, 2005 at 03:27:55 Pacific
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I can't buy from newegg cause they don't accept international orders, and I'm from southamerica. If I wasn't i'd go newegg all the way


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Response Number 4
Name: randy_s
Date: December 2, 2005 at 06:44:23 Pacific
Reply:

Fennerman,

As you have probably read below I or DFI nerfed my board (can't figure out which).

Since I didn't intend on using SLi I opted for a BFG motherboard. They're a newcomer to the mobo industry, but the board got extremely good reviews on the net for stability and customer service.

Here it is at Tiger Direct:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1284541&sku=B52-2000

Here is a good review:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzcwLDE=

The price is a little steep for a non-Sli board (especially with no firewire), but the stability reviews and CS reviews put it over the top for me. OCing is very good on this board too.

Here is my setup, I believe that we have similiar ideas:

Mobo: BFG BFGRNF4U
Memory: Corsair XMS PC 3200
Video Card: EVGA 7800GT
Processor: 3700+ San Diego

I ran 3dmark last night for a score of 15000, which is pretty good I think.


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Response Number 5
Name: heropsycho2177
Date: December 2, 2005 at 11:03:12 Pacific
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"It's the expensive one much better for overclocking or I can also get great overclocking with the cheap one?"

Not much better, but it does have some additional BIOS options you can use to get a little higher than the Infiniti. Is it worth $50? In my opinion, no. $50 is almost the price difference between an Athlon 64 Venice and an Athlon 64 San Diego with 1M of cache.

Randy_s,

While I've read good things about the BFG, I would still recommend the DFI, especially for overclocking and in general reliability. DFI has been making motherboards for a long time. BFG may very well make a great board, but they haven't been making them long enough for anyone to know how reliable they are.

Epox reliability leaves something to be desired. They've been plagued over the years with bad capacitors.

Jam also points out a very good question. If you're not gonna use SLI, you could save yourself at least $20 on a non-SLI, not to mention money on a power supply if you're buying a PSU now that can power two cards. You'd be wiser to not go SLI as far as money goes.

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Response Number 6
Name: Fennerman
Date: December 3, 2005 at 00:56:55 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks everybody. I was thinking that if I bought a non-sli card, my next computer upgrade would have to be practicly another computer. But if I get sli, by the time my computer is left behind I could still push it up with another videocard and an extra gig of ram. And later, a hopefully price droped 939 x2 processor. So I guess in my case it's better to use some extra bucks in the PSU and the SLI mobo (anyway, the DFI SLI board it's cheaper than the BFG non-sli one). Thanks a lot for your opinions.


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Response Number 7
Name: heropsycho2177
Date: December 3, 2005 at 08:26:20 Pacific
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"I was thinking that if I bought a non-sli card, my next computer upgrade would have to be practicly another computer."

Not sure why you say that. Your motherboard will accept X2 dual cores, and you'll have PCI-e to upgrade the graphics card.

"But if I get sli, by the time my computer is left behind I could still push it up with another videocard and an extra gig of ram."

You can always replace the video card instead of adding a second one. The question is what would give you more performance for the buck. If you're talking after two years, simply replacing the video card would most likely give you a higher performance increase than adding a second identical card to what you have.

In that light, SLI is unnecessary, and you already have some money saved for that X2/single video card replacement fund by not buying a high end PSU and SLI motherboard.

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