im going to be building my new system within the next few weeks and ive been concidering this motherboard http://www.biostar.com.tw/t-series/products/socket 939/tforce6100-939/product_details.php im either going to have an opteron 146 or an Athlon 64 3200 with the board but i havent decided that yet
Best person to ask is ddp. He uses them quite frequently for customers computers. Mostly office use. Personally I have been seeing on some other forumns on google about issues where they are not the best o/c board or stability issues. I believe they are the same cost as the board in in my sig that I currently use. So you may want to to take a look. The epox seem good at o/c and are very stable. Bios updates every month or twice a month. Another alternative is asus, but they would be twice the money. So ya should be alright, but there are better boards if ya want a gaming machine. Which it seems ya building. Btw...if ya need any cd rom's, floppies, or whatever. Pm me. I just ordered a decent size lot of them. :>
well in any case i need a board that has some onboard graphics as im not buying a PCI-E card straight away (due to budget restrictions) im not really going to be doing any overclocking (even though ive seen some very good results for the athlon 3200)
Ah I see. I missed the part with onboard graphics. Hmmm.... Here is one with more dimm slots and onboard graphics...plus ita asus and costs the same as the biostar ya posted http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131571 and here is a msi http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130041 The msi is cheaper than all, but I heard they are good boards. Just some ideas and yes as far as I know newegg does ship internationally. Cause I remeber ya said you were in the uk.:>
I was gonna recommend the ASRock 939 Dual SATA2 but seeing as you want onboard graphics I guess that's off the list, unless you have an AGP card at the mo, cos the board can take AGP AND PCI-E, so consider that if you already got an AGP/ PCI-E graphics card and don't mind putting on that instead. BTW Ozzy where did you read the newegg ship internationally now? I'm interested but I read on their FAQ page that they don't
Sypher also check out the Asrock 939NF4G-SATA2 AMD Athlon64 PCI-Express Motherboard inc. NV44 6100 Graphics. Available in the UK- I guess ASRock are pretty reliable because it's ASUS' little bro. here's a link to it around £55 GBP http://www.overclock.co.uk/customer/product.php?productid=19047
Well I guess the Biostar is pretty good, you might aswell go for it then, what's the cheapest you've seen it for?
SypherTek,the biostar board you 1st posted has onboard video. 1 x VGA Port INTEGRATED VIDEO NVIDIA® GeForce? 6100 GPU
