The best motherboard for K8

A n a t o M y · March 14th, 2005, 04:45 PM

what about GIGABYTE motherboard? I think they very good, good perf and good looking

Asus good for OC but they expensive.
Well MSI/GIGABYTE in my opinin are the best

**Regeneration** · March 14th, 2005, 11:44 PM

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Originally posted by A n a t o M y@Mar 14 2005, 03:45 PM
what about GIGABYTE motherboard? I think they very good, good perf and good looking
Asus good for OC but they expensive.
Well MSI/GIGABYTE in my opinin are the best

Gigabyte BIOS = bugs

March 15th, 2005, 02:55 AM

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ASUS has the name. they arent that special anymore.
MSI got the performance, but they got the price as well.
ABIT got good performance, and they'r not that expensive.
thats why, I recommend ABIT for those who wanna save some money.
for those who want to invest in a REALLY good mobo, go for MSI.

I really think you should go for MSI if you have enough budget. If not go for ABIT.

credo · March 15th, 2005, 10:20 PM

DFI rulez maybe?
the best motherboards and not expensive!

March 17th, 2005, 04:36 AM

Maybe there is any cheap board?

**Regeneration** · March 17th, 2005, 04:50 AM

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Originally posted by Ronney@Mar 17 2005, 03:36 AM
Maybe there is any cheap board?

Gigabyte series.

March 23rd, 2005, 03:44 PM

Socket 939 + AGP .. for overclocking the MSI Neo2 Platinum is probably your best bet. I have an EPoX 9NDA3+, it's just as good overclocking (if not better), I much prefer the layout of the board, the BIOS doesn't have bugs like the Neo2... and it's got quite a nice bundle (comes with mosfet heatsinks, fancy screwdriver (really handy actually) etc

However, I am not sure I could recommend the board to anyone who isn't willing to do a hardware mod. On the newer revision 2.1 boards it seems they use a new vcore controller. The vcore drops around 0.08v when going from an idle state to a load state, for example: BIOS set to 1.35v, in Windows idle voltage = 1.28v and load voltage = ~1.34v. Pretty bad huh? However, I have done a mod and it's now idle = 1.328v, load = 1.328v

No more drooping and overclocks brilliant. The vdimm voltage mod is also dead easy on this board.

Have a picture of my mod

March 23rd, 2005, 06:04 PM

i'd go with abit or asus for performance,
but gigabyte is good for budget mobo

March 26th, 2005, 01:53 AM

If you OC - DFI, and not a single world more.

March 28th, 2005, 10:44 PM

Socket 939 PCI-EX:

DFI (vdimm up to 4.0v *diablo# )

Socket 939 AGP:

MSI K8N Neo 2 (official bios not always work well, v-dimm only up to 2.85v)
*NEW* DFI (strange...only on march dfi have shipped them to resellers)