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Abit vs. All

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deemus

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I have a favorite store in my area. That does not carry abit mobos.

I am looking to build a new sys for doom3 according to the hard articles.

Would i be okay going with a asus board or msi instead of abit.

I am thinking of picking up.
AMD 64 3200+
512 Corsair Ram

I got the rest

Any suggetions?
 
MSI seems a bit sketchy with their quality in the past. their latest athlon 64 boards seem to be ok for the most part, but there are definately some problematic boards out there. I for one have used their video cards for a while with great success, so I guess that has to say something.

I've had great success with Asus boards though. I've built a several nf2 systems out of their boards, and they have been some of the most reliable, stable systems I've ever used. I'm on my first abit board now, and while it does give me more bios options, I'm hard pressed to say it's more stable than my asus board was..

I don't think you'll have a bad experience with an Asus board.
 
I have heard very good things about the asus board, just a warning though I did have a bad experience with my Abit Kv8Pro but was able to rma it to newegg without any difficulty and now it runs great. I would recommend the kv8pro but im sure the asus will do the job quite nicely
 
KV8 Pro, very good board for the money. $95 @ GameVE.com. Rev 2.0 supposedly no longer has the Newcastle temp read errors. Otherwise, it's stuffed with features for overclocking, and overall a very nice gaming board.
Oh, it does lack firewire, but it still kicks ass.

I think for the money/performance ratio, it wins.
 
I just bought a newcastle 3200 with the abit, it runs very well. No problems etc. Knizzle, are u running the stock heatsink? How, what settings are u using to get such a good oc. I have the stock heatsink for now, what settings? You can see my sig, that is my system, can I get that kind of oc? Anyone? or do I need fast ram. I was running the fsb at 215 and bf vietnam locked, I have yet to really burn it in though, installed 2 days ago.

My bad, just looked carefully at your sig. Other than water cooling, how high can I expect stock/ or with a good air cooling setup? I may have to make the leap to water... never done that before. This is only the third comp I've built.
 
Barnaby said:
MSI seems a bit sketchy with their quality in the past. their latest athlon 64 boards seem to be ok for the most part, but there are definately some problematic boards out there. I for one have used their video cards for a while with great success, so I guess that has to say something.

I've had great success with Asus boards though. I've built a several nf2 systems out of their boards, and they have been some of the most reliable, stable systems I've ever used. I'm on my first abit board now, and while it does give me more bios options, I'm hard pressed to say it's more stable than my asus board was..

I don't think you'll have a bad experience with an Asus board.
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While that is true, they aren't always the best for overclocking. E.g. the A7N8X series vs. Abit's NF7-S (even the 1.2 could do 200fsb) and the DFI boards.

Of course if you aren't overclocking, Asus no doubt. But always stay on top of BIOS updates...my A7V took 3 updates to get stable (for your people who had to endure the KT133 madness haha).
 
I had an Abit KT7-A RAID. That was a piece of shit. I dropped in an Asus A7V-133 and all my troubles went away.

But yes in general the KT7 days sucked for AMD owners.
 
Abit's NF7-S (even the 1.2 could do 200fsb)
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I can attest to that, my 1.2 runs my mobile at 200 fsb all day long with no problems. I've heard alot of good things about the MSI plat board lately, but if I remember its kinda pricey compared to the AV8pro. If I were buying I'd definitely grab the cheaper Abit board.
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
I had an Abit KT7-A RAID. That was a piece of shit. I dropped in an Asus A7V-133 and all my troubles went away.

But yes in general the KT7 days sucked for AMD owners.
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Weird I still have a KT7 Raid (regular KT133) that I was running untill I built my AMD 64 2800 + w/ Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo, for what I paid 2 months ago for the new cpu and mobo, could not pass it up $ 219 for board and retail boxed cpu. But my old Abit board ran stable with a Duron 800 oc 1050 then I picked up a 1.1 tbird for it. My only complaint with the Abit board was 1 vid card upgrade caused some errors and went through 2 psus on that system. I will say my overall experience is Abit is great but Asus just in my opinion is equal if not a little better for overall stability.

Charlie
 
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