Looking For A Mobo To Match My 9800 Xt

[tesco]

Originally posted by QazQaz007@20 March 2004 - 22:51
any other ideas for a mobo? the two that i saw the cpu
price was way to high so on second thought does anyone
know a good amd xp mobo (cpu much cheaper)

the asus A7N8X and the gigabyte 7N400L.

the gigabyte one is less expensive, and i personaly like it better because of the color of the board. but other people might not like it...oh and im not sure if the asus one supports dual channel memory, the deluxe version does for sure and -x one for sure doesn't. but teh gigabyte one i mentioned does support it.

oh yeah and buy an athlon xp 2500+ processor, it can easily be OC'd to the speeds of a 3200+ with stock cooling, but i recomend you buy some arctic silver 5 thermal compound instead of using the crappy thermal pad.

[peat moss]

YA its what i tell my friends quote ROSSCO
oh yeah and buy an athlon xp 2500+ processor, it can easily be OC'd to the speeds of a 3200+ with stock cooling,

EDIT love computers but my next one is a AMD

[tesco]

Originally posted by peat moss@20 March 2004 - 23:51
YA  its what i tell my friends  quote ROSSCO
oh yeah and buy an athlon xp 2500+ processor, it can easily be OC'd to the speeds of a 3200+ with stock cooling,

i say that a lot on the forum sometimes i tell that to my friends lol. but i bet when i finally get one of these easily OCable processors I won't be able to do it lol.

EDIT love computers but my next one is a AMD

what does that mean? u dissing amd?

[peat moss]

Dissing AMD not at all I'v ouwned 2 or 3 in the past 10 years I have a P4 now
just looking at options for later

[kaiweiler]

The NF7-S from Abit is a great mobo, that's the one I have w/ no complaints!
Has the nforce2 chipset wich is great
HERE

[QazQaz007]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004@21 March 2004 - 04:42
oh yeah and buy an athlon xp 2500+ processor, it can easily be OC'd to the speeds of a 3200+ with stock cooling, but i recomend you buy some arctic silver 5 thermal compound instead of using the crappy thermal pad.

wow a 2500 to 3200!
i was going to buy a 3000 with the 400 fsb
what could i overclock that to? (safely with stock stuff)

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by QazQaz007+21 March 2004 - 16:52--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (QazQaz007 @ 21 March 2004 - 16:52)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ROSSCO_2004@21 March 2004 - 04:42
oh yeah and buy an athlon xp 2500+ processor, it can easily be OC&#39;d to the speeds of a 3200+ with stock cooling, but i recomend you buy some arctic silver 5 thermal compound instead of using the crappy thermal pad.

wow a 2500 to 3200&#33;
i was going to buy a 3000 with the 400 fsb
what could i overclock that to? (safely with stock stuff) [/b][/quote]
Not much more than the 2500+ if any.

[tesco]

Originally posted by QazQaz007+21 March 2004 - 17:52--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (QazQaz007 @ 21 March 2004 - 17:52)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ROSSCO_2004@21 March 2004 - 04:42
oh yeah and buy an athlon xp 2500+ processor, it can easily be OC&#39;d to the speeds of a 3200+ with stock cooling, but i recomend you buy some arctic silver 5 thermal compound instead of using the crappy thermal pad.

wow a 2500 to 3200&#33;
i was going to buy a 3000 with the 400 fsb
what could i overclock that to? (safely with stock stuff) [/b][/quote]
probably only to 3200 maybe 3400 at most. the best deal out there, imo, is toget a 2500+ and oc that to 3200+ or higher if you&#39;ve got good cooling.

[_John_Lennon_]

The 2500+, 2800+, and the 3200+ are all based on the Barton core, along with the newer 2400+ barton, and the 2600+.

So technically, they all have about the same capabilities.

In tests, the 2800+ and 3200+ have been able to get a slightly higher overclock, with less effort, but the price ratio is not worth it compared to the 2500+.
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As for the motherboard, if money isnt much of an option, and you want a SUPERB overclocker. This is the pretty much only choice.

DFI -LANPARTY NFII ULTRA B - 146&#036;

Its about the most expensive package around, but its a very complete one, and with that board, the sky is the limit with overclocking. I know people that have gotten 280FSB on that board, stable too. FSB is one of the main things we use to overclock, and if your board cant handle high FSB&#39;s you wont be able to get a very good overclock.

If your budest is lower than that, then I would like to reccommend my board.

Epox 8RDA3+ 89&#036;

For that 89 dollars, you get a board that is a great overclocker, more than that of a company of Chaintech, or even ASUS. And you also get a package that you would often have to pay atleast 100&#036; to recieve with your motherboard, like Rounded IDE cables, S-ATA power and S-ATA cables, along with the rare Southbridge heatsink to keep the southbridge cool.

I wrote a review on newegg for the 8RDA3+ recently, its near the top for the review on that board, my name I used is Mufasa.