Re: ASUS Mobo Recommendations

SATA is the norm these days for HDD's...

"Mercury" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> A8V (Via chipset) or A8N (Nvidia) families of boards offer AMD support
> with X64 option.
>
> See www.asus.com.tw for detail & drivers (get all the latest drivers &
> bios before returning).
>
> The A8V family is the economy group with Via chipset - they are good. If
> budget is an issue these are fine otherwise try one of the A8N family.
> Consider A8V if you want to retain an AGP card as it has an AGP slot.
>
> A8V takes 754 pin CPU's, the A8N 939 Pin CPU's.
>
> A8N includes SLI and one non SLI board (A8N-E) - all are PCI-e graphics.
> The non SLI is the A8N-E (which I have), and for ultimate in performance
> graphics the various A8N-SLI, A8N-SLI Deluxe, and A8N-SLI Premium (heat
> pipe southbrdige cooling - must be mounted 'right way up' IE on left
> opening cases, not right. There is the new A8N32-SLI Deluxe too - it is
> supposed to be a ripper.
>
> The Athlon chips that also support X64 come in several families:
> I'll skip the A8V options - if you need advice on that, post back.
> - Athlon 64 FX - top performance at a price
> - for the price, requires wealth, but the best performance
> - Athlon X2 - dual pocessor cores
> - suitable if you have multi active programs / threads
> - Athlon 64 - the 64 bit version of the old 32 bit XP's.
> - from least cost with good performance upwards.
>
> The A 64's run really cool so I recommend them. The X2's marginally
> warmer, and the FX warmer again - not sure, but abolutely nowhere near as
> hot as any Intel 64 bit. The great benefit with the A8N is that you can
> upgrade from a budget A 64 low end chip to either top end FX or top end
> X2's ==> over 300% performance upgrade path.
>
> The A8N-E is a low cost board ~ $110 US.
>
> If you are in deep dark Africa then cooling is likely to be an issue. I
> would recommend a Thermaltake XP120 heatsink + quiet 12cm fan for the CPU
> (overkill). There are many other alternatives. Without yet having recieved
> it and tried it I suggest you look at the Swiftech's MCX159CU for
> Southbridge cooling (which tends to run hotter than the CPU)
>
> Memory - go to www.corsair.com and use there tools to pick, or look at the
> Approved list that Asus publishes (I think it is on the product info pages
> for A8N's). Download and review the manual for the board you chose before
> purchase so you know what you are getting.
>
> All these boards happily run Windows32 bit OS or 64bit. Unless you have a
> reason, stick to Windows 32bit for the moment - very many 3rd party
> drivers have not been provided by their vendors for 64 bit yet. The A8N-E
> I have installed XP64 onto a RAID 1 array without the lightest hitch - all
> device drivers for sound, nic, etc for the A8N are avalable... I believe
> its is the same for the SLI boards too.
>
> Do you need a UPS? Backup systems?
>
> Thats it for starters...
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> - The
>
> "Skavenger" <bilharvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hello;
>>
>> I have been living in deepest darkest Africa for a couple of years so I
>> have fallen behind on technology somewhat and need some advice on a new
>> build.
>>
>> I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with an Athlon XP2800 and have the system to
>> be fantastically stable and would like to stick to an AMD / ASUS
>> baseline.
>>
>> What ASUS AMD Mobo would you recommend?
>> What AMD Processor for the above? What are we up to now 64 Bit
>> What memory for the above?
>>
>> Did Serial ATA Drives take off or is IDE still the Norm.
>>
>> I am popping of to Germany for a shopping trip and now a couple of good
>> computer suppliers that I use to use so if I buy in Germany
>> recommendations here might be restricted to that market however any
>> advice would be sound.
>>
>
>


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