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Foxtrot said:
What about these cheaper boards? What is wrong with them?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128286
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123230
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128263
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Nothing particularly wrong with them I'm sure, MSI is just known for making a reliable product with excellent overclocking features - the k8n neo2 platinum nforce3 is especially known for being a great board. Those other nforce3 boards will likely get the job done too, but might not quite be as feature packed as the MSI. If the MSI is too expensive, just pick out the nForce3 board that fits your budget and featureset, try to look up a review too if you can.
 
tranCendenZ said:
Nothing particularly wrong with them I'm sure, MSI is just known for making a reliable product with excellent overclocking features - the k8n neo2 platinum nforce3 is especially known for being a great board. Those other nforce3 boards will likely get the job done too, but might not quite be as feature packed as the MSI. If the MSI is too expensive, just pick out the nForce3 board that fits your budget and featureset, try to look up a review too if you can.
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Alright, thanks.

If I am not getting PCI-e is it worth getting a good mobo that I would plan on upgrading with? If not I could probably save money by going socket 754.
 
socket 939 is alot better but pci-e would be a better upgrade right now or u could just by a cheap agp board and upgrade to pci-e next year
 
i have that same exact msi k8t neo2 board, its great... nothing at all wrong with it
 
bryanf445 said:
i have that same exact msi k8t neo2 board, its great... nothing at all wrong with it
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Is it good for overclocking though? I might overclock. Also, I have a very nice AGP card that I want to keep for a while.
 
alot of settings for overclocking, i havent done any myself yet, though i use the dynamic overclocking which auto clocks it like either 1%,3%,5%,7%. Currently i have it on the 5% which clocks it 100 mhz faster when im gaming, which is nice.

i suggest this board if you want to stay under $100
 
Anyone else want to comment before I buy later today?
 
sell the gfx card u have, which will get you more money but a pci-e board with a 939 processor

and a cheap shit PCI card, keep the mony u got from selling ur 6800 and re invest ina super duper pci-e card later on :) that what im doing bought last week a msi k8n neo 4 platinum and a winchester 3200 and using my old old old pci card:o 8 megs of onboard ram no heatsink what-soever

still i can use ma pc:)
 
Joims said:
sell the gfx card u have, which will get you more money but a pci-e board with a 939 processor

and a cheap shit PCI card, keep the mony u got from selling ur 6800 and re invest ina super duper pci-e card later on :) that what im doing bought last week a msi k8n neo 4 platinum and a winchester 3200 and using my old old old pci card:o 8 megs of onboard ram no heatsink what-soever

still i can use ma pc:)
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No way, Battlefield 2 demo comes out in 2 days. And besides PCI-e isn't that great.
 
yes it is that great

agp is dead and dying give up, embrace the revolution

but im kinda sad seeing as i cant play the bf2 demo till i get a new card:P
 
Joims said:
yes it is that great

agp is dead and dying give up, embrace the revolution

but im kinda sad seeing as i cant play the bf2 demo till i get a new card:P
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The performance inscrease isn't that much with PCI-e, and AGP is still pretty new...
 
WTF agp is not pretty new its old!! it predates 1998

of course ther isnt much aof a performance increase with pci-e its using the same hardware on the agp cards with just a different interface

, IT IS JUST MORE FUTURE PROOF
 
Joims said:
WTF agp is not pretty new its old!! it predates 1998

of course ther isnt much aof a performance increase with pci-e its using the same hardware on the agp cards with just a different interface

, IT IS JUST MORE FUTURE PROOF
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Ya, but I don't care about future proof if I still have an AGP card. But I would still like some more comments, from Asus would be nice, about what I am about to order.
 
like i said in my earlier post just get a cheap agp mobo now and upgrade to pic-e next year
 
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