Re: ASUS MOBO upgrade recommendations

On 10 Jan 2006 11:03:44 -0800, ackthpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>rgraham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I have 3 ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Systems with AMD CPUs and have found the
>> systems to be fairly stable and would like to keep my upgrade path of
>> AMD / ASUS. My desire is to reuse as many components as is reasonably
>> possible from the systems. So the more options I leave available, the
>> better...
>>
>> Could I get your suggestions on what ASUS AMD MoBo would you recommend?
>>
>>
>> What AMD Processor for the above would be a good tradeoff between
>> horsepower and cost?
>>
>> Do you feel that the 64 Bit CPUs are a good value at this point in
>> time?
>>
>> If so, what memory configurations would you recommend for the above?
>>
>> The applications for the systems include: Windows Media Center and
>> general business applications and consumer use. I don't expect any
>> will be used as Gaming machines.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Ron
>

I just replaced a A7N8x-E Deluxe Asus board with a A8N-VM and have
been completely happy. Board runs stable out of the box, no
overclocking, using default BIOS settings. If your a gamer, or into a
lot of video editing etc, this probably not the board for you. This is
what I stuck on it:

Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego core CPU
1 GB (514MB2) Cruial mem, CT2K6464Z40B
CL3, Unbufford,Non-ECC DDR400
Thats it.

I had backup my HD with a mirror BU using Norton Ghost. Tried to run
the board with out a clean install and didn't have much luck. So I
reformatted the HD and selectively restored programs from the Ghost
back up. Some of them worked, others did not. Those that did I suspect
didn't have any writtings to the registry, I could be completely wrong
on this, I'm sure more knowledgable people can comment on that.

My selection of this board was to buy some time prior to going to
PCI-E board, dual core CPU, multi video cards etc. Kind of buying time
until Vista hits the streets.

Dewayne
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