Question regarding mobo

Big Chief

Im looking about getting a new motherboard and would prefer to stick to a gigabyte motherboard as ive found them to be very reliable and durable over the past couple of years...

I currently have the Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra mainboard but was looking at some of the ones on www.overclock.co.uk as an alternative..

But looking at them i couldnt tell if they would be better or not or support the current stuff i have in there at the moment

I would need it to support AMD XP 3000+ barton 512k
and i have 1280 mb PC2100 ddr ram.. (although i would update this to pc3200 when i get paid at end of month and can clear some of the cc debt..)

ok http://www.overclock.co.uk/customer/product.php?productid=16822&cat=316&page=1 is the one i was looking at justnow as it looks to be good enough and alot of people recommend the nforce2 chipset?

for detailed info on my current board it can be found at

http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VAXP-A%20Ultra.htm

thoughts?

can i also ask what you look at when comparing motherboards...

astrofool

get this one chief:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?action=info&sku=121245&p=&t=845&l=2&AvdID=1&CatID=10&GrpID=5&cks=PRL

Abit AN7

has everything possible for a socket A system, far better than the gigabytes. The uGuru chip can also help if system crashes much.

+ if u get a serillel adaptor for it u can run your hard drives off the serial ata ports.

astrofool

Ram wise:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?action=info&sku=118498&p=&t=1014&l=2&AvdID=1&CatID=17&GrpID=9&cks=PRL

1024mb pc3200 there.

Also, when u get a new board, only use two of the memory sticks, alot of boards have issues using more than two, or drop the speed or latency, so you actually decrease performance by using 3.

Big Chief

Originally posted by astrofool
Ram wise:

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?action=info&sku=118498&p=&t=1014&l=2&AvdID=1&CatID=17&GrpID=9&cks=PRL

1024mb pc3200 there.

Also, when u get a new board, only use two of the memory sticks, alot of boards have issues using more than two, or drop the speed or latency, so you actually decrease performance by using 3.

is that 2 x 512 sticks or 4x 256 sticks (looking at the picture seems to say 256mb but thats all i can make out..) ?

unkel

as astrofool said

The abit is best nforce2 motherboard in the market and possibly the best socket A board overall

unkel

That's 2*512 (pic is wrong and shows 2*256)

unkel

They use the same pic correctly here

astrofool

it's 2*512mb

Big Chief

ok ordered that abit mobo and got the 1024 mb pc3200 ram (i really gotta get some self control )

the cc wasnt as high as i thought it was so treated myself

now to try and find that zorro silver case (out of stock on xcase! and other place from uk was trying to charge me 42 quid sterling shipping costs )

any help finding the silver zorro case ( http://www.xcase.co.uk/acatalog/Mod_Cases.html ) can be found on that page but they are out of stock..

any help locating this (preferably in ireland to save shipping costs) then please tell me


p.s pc base unit coming soon to a forum near you (for sale )

magick

I would need it to support AMD XP 3000+ barton 512k and i have PC2100 ddr ram

as well as the Abit Nf-7 2.0 mobo
im running512 mb pc2100 ddr ram, with the XP3000, it runs very well , except the ram sometimes can give a little lag when it comes to gaming, im going to add another 512 pc3200 ram into it to improve performance.

Big Chief

Originally posted by magick
as well as the Abit Nf-7 2.0 mobo
im running512 mb pc2100 ddr ram, with the XP3000, it runs very well , except the ram sometimes can give a little lag when it comes to gaming, im going to add another 512 pc3200 ram into it to improve performance.

what gfx card you have?

and dosent adding ram with a higher dram clock negate that fact? (i.e if you put pc2700 into a pc2100 it will all only show up as 2100? atleast that was my understanding of the matter..)

astrofool

Memory is limited by the slowest speed module.

The AN7 is the upgraded version of the NF7-S v2

BadCharlie

Have the NF7-S v2 My self and tis very very good. clocking my amd 2500chip to a 3200. Just useing 1gig of pc2100 ram and its giving me no problems at all.