Help chooseing a new motherboard

[rickytim]

HI
I am currently looking for a new mother board to buy.. I have narowed it down to three boards.

1. Giga-byte 7n400-pro2
2. Giga-byte 7nnxp
3. Dfi Lanparty nfII ultra b

For the cpu i will probly get a amd xp 2800 and 512 mb ram. If you can please help me in chooseing one of these board. Also if you own one do you like and is there any probs with it. Also if you could tell me what is the advantages for these boards.
Thanks
Rick

[robexe]

the a78nx-e deluxe is THE amd board to get:

best overclocker
dual channel
all the mad features
and the Storm Codec onboard Sound (rules)

it has all your nifty components... at the best price... think its around 100$ on newegg

get it

[rickytim]

any one else have good luck with the board robexe poosted??

[nurdonsite2]

hi, i don't own any of those but i can tell u that the DFI lanparty is probebly the best nforce2 mbo out there to get. especially for overclocking (i have seen many people hit above 240 fsb easily). if ur not looking to a lot of $$$, then get the DFI infinity which is basically a stripped down version of the lanparty without a lot of extra features.

Originally posted by robexe
the a78nx-e deluxe is THE amd board to get:

best overclocker
dual channel
all the mad features
and the Storm Codec onboard Sound (rules)

it has all your nifty components... at the best price... think its around 100$ on newegg

get it

he asked for the best board put of the ABOVE 3. and besides.......all nforce2 ultra boards have dual channel, "mad features" (ie: the abit nf7-s has all of the features that the a7n8x has with the exception of dual lan which not everyone uses), and all nforce2 ultra boards have the soundstorm APU (unless its disabled by manufacturer). also the asus is not by far the best overclocker, abit nf7-s and hte DFI lanparty smoke the asus in overclocking. IMO.

so yea outta those 3 the DFI would be ur best bet and it comes with a LOT of extra stuff. thats why its so expensive.

[rickytim]

thanks for the reply nurdonsite2. I also like that board cuz most of it is all uv colored. And i am a uv fanatic lol..

Thanks again

[nurdonsite2]

lol.......looks are not the only good thing about that board. if i was to get a board today........it would be that one (providing that i had enough money lol)

[The_Saint]

I`m with nurdonsite2...the Lan party is by far the best overcloker out there...not to mention it looks good!

I haven`t had any luck with ASUS. Don`t like them.

[sulusulu]

Stay far away from those gigabyte boards. There is a bug in tha ITE (GigaRAID) contriller that disrupts high end sound cards and I beleave just about anything that needs large amounts of PCI bandwidth. It also performs VERY pooly. Also there is a bug with SATA controller that causes data loss. The SATA bug has been fixed by Silicon image but Gigabyte has not released the fix in there BIOS for about 6 months now. Also, the voltage regulator on the GA-7NNXP has been known to cause problems in many systems (incuding my own) and has not shown any real value.

Here are somw links about the boards. The first two are about the ITE bug and a modded BIOS that fixes some problems:
http://pr3ach3r.overkillsystems.net/...0ITE%20BUG.htm
http://forums.amdmb.com/showthread.p...hreadid=244345
This one is just general Gigabyte MB infor: http://forums.amdmb.com/showthread.p...hreadid=266766

I have the GA-7NNXP and given the way the Gigabyte has handled the problems with this board I do not intend the ever buy a Gigabyte product agin.

[teengeek88]

Originally posted by robexe
the a78nx-e deluxe is THE amd board to get:

best overclocker
dual channel
all the mad features
and the Storm Codec onboard Sound (rules)

it has all your nifty components... at the best price... think its around 100$ on newegg

get it

i have to agree with him its a great board

btw why dont you go with a 3000+?

[rickytim]

teengeek88 i am choociing a 2.8 bucase of the cost . But i may conciter it!