Originally Posted by Richard M

I run an Asus A8V Deluxe (very early Rev 1) mobo at the moment, and it's driving me up the wall - every time I start to enjoy a nice game of Far Cry it crashes.
Don't even go there with trying to solve the problem, I know it's the mobo and it has been for nearly a year.

I need a replacement but it must have a spec like this:

Socket 939 for Athlon64
Dual Channel DDR (Corsair compatible preferred)
SATA (non-RAID preferred on this one, don't like ****ing about with floppy disks)
AGP port at 8x speed
5 PCI slots

I don't want or need onboard video or sound, it must have at least one 100MBit LAN port though.

Generally any good quality and stable s939 board will do, I'm leaving the performance aside until I get my dual ATI cards when they release the next-gen with their SLI-type chipset.
I'll spend up to £100 max, prefer £80 or less, thanks. :)

Originally Posted by budwieser

Don`t forget the cost of the cpu also mate!.

Originally Posted by Richard M

I give up. :rolleyes:
I think I'll listen to Bifta, who recommended waiting for the ATI chipsets/graphics cards - you're probably right my man, I've lived with this board for a year so a few months more can't hurt that much. :)

Originally Posted by jamesclarke555

He already has an Athlon 64 FX-53 ;)

Originally Posted by budwieser

Where does he state that he has an Athlon 64?:erm:

Originally Posted by jamesclarke555

I still say go for an nForce4 based board and I stand by it:

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2...s/index.x?pg=1

Originally Posted by budwieser

Where does he state that he has an Athlon 64?:erm:

Originally Posted by jamesclarke555

Nowhere in this thread, I've got a good memory :p:

Originally Posted by Bifta

Not a great deal in it, the Nforce 4 creeps ahead in a majority of the tests, but take a look at the Ethernet CPU utilisation, 18.9%.

Originally Posted by jamesclarke555

Oh well, my Asus board has dual Gigabit LAN (nForce & Marvell) ;)

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Could go with the msi neo platinum,im using this board it gives all asked for 100mbit lan agp8 nforce 3 sata that needs no f6 :)

Originally Posted by Bifta

Horrible horrible motherboard (and socket 754, not 939, the Neo2 is 939 and just as bad), I had at least 3 cap's that started squealing after a few weeks on 2 different ones, dumped the last one in the wheelie bin and bought a DFI Lanparty.

Originally Posted by keithwalton

Ditto that regarding msi build quality as i said before, barge poles apply.
Also nforce 4 is a no go since its pci-e only and i presume from the fact that he wants an agp8x mobo that he's got a rather expensive agp card that he doesnt want to replace now with the much better amr enabled cards around the corner.