Well, I doubt between mobo manuf.'s that you'd see a whole lot of difference when using the same chipset. I cant speak for all boards, because I've not used all boards. Personally I'd go for a) a fast chipset then b) choose which board I want on feature and stability quality.
The Fataility edn of the AN8 is meant to be the "ultimate" for ABIT, but that's just a bit different and gives more features. The core speed and design is still the same across the board.
As for a noticable difference, I wouldnt say ive had any. You sort of reach a top end plateu (sp?) where "inferior" boards wont do stuff like 1T or overclock a bit, but the ones that all do the fastest timings and overclock a bit more (again, as subjective as it is) all work around the same.
edit: baring in mind NV has just released the Nforce 4 with dual x16 slots like the Asus A8N32.
Originally Posted by Bindibadgi Well, I doubt between mobo manuf.'s that you'd see a whole lot of difference when using the same chipset. I cant speak for all boards, because I've not used all boards. Personally I'd go for a) a fast chipset then b) choose which board I want on feature and stability quality.
The Fataility edn of the AN8 is meant to be the "ultimate" for ABIT, but that's just a bit different and gives more features. The core speed and design is still the same across the board.
As for a noticable difference, I wouldnt say ive had any. You sort of reach a top end plateu (sp?) where "inferior" boards wont do stuff like 1T or overclock a bit, but the ones that all do the fastest timings and overclock a bit more (again, as subjective as it is) all work around the same.
edit: baring in mind NV has just released the Nforce 4 with dual x16 slots like the Asus A8N32.
OK, I worded that a little wrong, wanted to know if there were any comparable (price wise) nf4 boards that were significantly better, but still retained the quiet northbridge, it would seem not. Don't want the Fatality edition because of the fans, so it looks like this is my best bet :-)
A Reply Such as 'Manufacturer' + 'Model' would have been perfectly adequate ;)
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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi baring in mind NV has just released the Nforce 4 with dual x16 slots like the Asus A8N32.
I acutally just bought this board for my new comp and I'm having what I assume to be a driver issue but I can't seem to get it resovled. Nothing major, I just can't get the S/PDIF jack to output anything more than stereo sound. I bought the Logitech Z-5500 speaker set with the optical in and wanted to have the cool lack of interferance via the optical cable. Well I do get sound but only stereo. If anyone could help me out, point me in the right direction for what to do I'd be grateful.
Um, Im assuming you've set it to 5.1 in control panel and in the audio software? It's only AC97 so it wont upmix into 5.1 like Azalia HD audio with dolby. If it's a stereo source, itll play it in stereo.
you can set it to clone in the nvidia control panel thing though
second tab -> surround settings -> clone :)
also to check if it really is working in suround mode do the speaker wizard
Ok, so should I use the Nvidia driver for the audio or the realtek driver? Nvidia's speaker wizard didn't do anything so I installed the realtek drivers and those at least get the S/Pdif jack working. I appreciate everyone's help on this, but maybe I'll just go buy an audigy2 card or something. X-Fi is too expensive.
Originally Posted by bigz PATA doesn't have funky things like NCQ and the ability to hot-swap devices in and out. NCQ can give some decent performance benefits when 'multitasking'.
Uh.... PATA also has a more limited IO, 123 megs/s SHAREd with everything else on the PCI bus. Depends on the board though, but basicly any modern board will have a much better SATA IO than the onboard PATA could ever dream of..
I git the An8 Uktra Non sli card when I did because it was the only passive cooled northbridges board, and others had said the Auss and the MSI fans where whining little pests!
Cracking board for a newb to overclocking like me as you can auto the memory timing to spd and then go in and adjus the ones you want. I have my 3500venice and ballistix at 231x11 1:1 2.5,3,3,5 so :)
do you recon this board would perform well with zalmans CNPS9500??
i was thinking of buying this combo and was worried about the fan being too high to blow through the grill on the back of the board. Also it looks like there are some components near the back of this board that could do with cooling and im not sure this cooler would blow enough air downwards to those.
Should do. When I used it it was outside of a case (so no airflow over it) and the CPU heatsink has a shroud that pushes air upwards rather than over the rear IO. It had virtually no airflow.
Originally Posted by TheoGeo do you recon this board would perform well with zalmans CNPS9500??
i was thinking of buying this combo and was worried about the fan being too high to blow through the grill on the back of the board. Also it looks like there are some components near the back of this board that could do with cooling and im not sure this cooler would blow enough air downwards to those.
just wondering what peoples opinion on this is?
I just got that combo with a X2 chip. The case though I used is the antec silent one. Where the PS is on the bottom and the Grill on top where the PS would be. I pointed the cpu cooler facing up so it goes directly out the grill on top. The system is very quiet. I haven't overclocked it yet. I did come to a problem though with the setup. It seems sometimes the USB would crash the PC when I have RAID on. As long as I don't use the onboard USB heavily the computer would be stable as all hell.
What do you have on the USB? It maybe your chipset is overheating: if you can get a fan on it or better airflow over the heatpipes then you may find it a bit better.
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ReplyThe Fataility edn of the AN8 is meant to be the "ultimate" for ABIT, but that's just a bit different and gives more features. The core speed and design is still the same across the board.
As for a noticable difference, I wouldnt say ive had any. You sort of reach a top end plateu (sp?) where "inferior" boards wont do stuff like 1T or overclock a bit, but the ones that all do the fastest timings and overclock a bit more (again, as subjective as it is) all work around the same.
edit: baring in mind NV has just released the Nforce 4 with dual x16 slots like the Asus A8N32.
OK, I worded that a little wrong, wanted to know if there were any comparable (price wise) nf4 boards that were significantly better, but still retained the quiet northbridge, it would seem not. Don't want the Fatality edition because of the fans, so it looks like this is my best bet :-)
A Reply Such as 'Manufacturer' + 'Model' would have been perfectly adequate ;)
Christ, it's never-ending lol
I havent used anything else with a passive chipset.
;)
second tab -> surround settings -> clone :)
also to check if it really is working in suround mode do the speaker wizard
F T W
lmao
Uh.... PATA also has a more limited IO, 123 megs/s SHAREd with everything else on the PCI bus. Depends on the board though, but basicly any modern board will have a much better SATA IO than the onboard PATA could ever dream of..
Cracking board for a newb to overclocking like me as you can auto the memory timing to spd and then go in and adjus the ones you want. I have my 3500venice and ballistix at 231x11 1:1 2.5,3,3,5 so :)
i was thinking of buying this combo and was worried about the fan being too high to blow through the grill on the back of the board. Also it looks like there are some components near the back of this board that could do with cooling and im not sure this cooler would blow enough air downwards to those.
just wondering what peoples opinion on this is?
I just got that combo with a X2 chip. The case though I used is the antec silent one. Where the PS is on the bottom and the Grill on top where the PS would be. I pointed the cpu cooler facing up so it goes directly out the grill on top. The system is very quiet. I haven't overclocked it yet. I did come to a problem though with the setup. It seems sometimes the USB would crash the PC when I have RAID on. As long as I don't use the onboard USB heavily the computer would be stable as all hell.
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