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Best Socket A Motherboard

SayHelloToMyBFG said:
I need the best socket A motherboard available. Ideas.
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That DFI lanparty board... or this asus one... forget.

Also, a Soyo Dragon.... something something... forget

last but not least, the famous K7S5A Pro. LoL
 
BEST SOCKET A MOTHERBOARD

Please read the rules you agreed to when you registered here and do not SHOUT in thread titles.
 
Who are you talking to?

I am referring to Socket A boards... those aren't 754 or 939 or AM2. :)
 
Best socket A, my vote goes to the Abit NF7-S ver2. It was a very popular motherboard and was loved my most overclockers. I still run one in my family computer.
 
I had the Abit AN7.
uGuru was great for keeping you running.
I never had to reset the CMOS when overclocking :)
It is a good board too but some others clock a bit higher.
 
Baditude said:
Best socket A, my vote goes to the Abit NF7-S ver2. It was a very popular motherboard and was loved my most overclockers. I still run one in my family computer.
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Yup she's the queen of the ball; Asus, DFI and Epox all had very good ones too. But, the Abit was far and away the most widely used by the heavy socket A OCers
 
My votes go to the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra and the DFI NFII Ultra Infinity. The Infinity was a great board without the extra fluff of the LanParty. Unfortunately, the NF7-S does not get my vote as it took over 3 revisions to get things right with the BIOS corruption problem on that board. However, once it was fixed on the NF7-S2, it was fine.

For the cheap segment, my vote also goes to the K7S5A and the K7S5A Pro 5.0. Both those boards ran excellent for me when I had them. Linux support was a bit of a pain in the rear though. ;)
 
fireluxx said:
My votes go to the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra and the DFI NFII Ultra Infinity. The Infinity was a great board without the extra fluff of the LanParty. Unfortunately, the NF7-S does not get my vote as it took over 3 revisions to get things right with the BIOS corruption problem on that board. However, once it was fixed on the NF7-S2, it was fine.
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I had both the DFI nF2 & the NF7-S V2.0 (actually a couple) & imo the NF7-S V2.0 was just a far more solid board.
You also seem to forget that DFI had a couple of revisions too ..

How you can put the -S2 into the same category as both the -S V2.0 (very different boards although similar names) & the DFI nF2 defies me though ....
 
They are not that much different. They have the same nForce2 / MCP+T chipset combinations. ABit just happened to get things right on the NF7-S2 where the NF7-S was a flop.

I remember when a lot of people screamed at DFI after they released their nForce2 motherboards. BIOS issues left, right, and center for the next couple of months after production. However, they released a BIOS for their boards which improved their stability versus ABit having to release three or four motherboards to correct the issue. That's a company that doesn't deserve my confidence.

Oh wait, they released a fifth motherboard, the AN7.... :rolleyes:
 
You can't really go wrong with any board that uses the nForce 2. I personally owned an Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev 2, and it was an absolutely great board.
 
Yes, they still use it. :rolleyes: I still have a Duron 950 running in a Gigabyte 7N400S-L. :)
 
In all of the other threads with exactly the same title I have posted these:

Shuttle AN35/N, ULTRA etc
NF-7/NF7-S V2.0
Jetway N2PAP, OEM board
AN7
DFI Lanparty
 
I have a DFI nf2 ultra b and it is AWSOME... I like it alot more then my asus s939 board, I would be using it as my main PC if I didn't have a use for dual core.
 
fireluxx said:
They are not that much different. They have the same nForce2 / MCP+T chipset combinations. ABit just happened to get things right on the NF7-S2 where the NF7-S was a flop.
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No, the NF7-S2 (& -S2G) is a pretty different board e.g. it doesn't have the MCP-T, it has no multi adjustment in the BIOS etc. etc. & it was designed for a different market than the enthusiast's NF7-S.

I remember when a lot of people screamed at DFI after they released their nForce2 motherboards. BIOS issues left, right, and center for the next couple of months after production. However, they released a BIOS for their boards which improved their stability versus ABit having to release three or four motherboards to correct the issue. That's a company that doesn't deserve my confidence.
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You seem to have forgotten that DFI not only had LANParty & LANParty Bs but they also had revisions within that ...

Having had both I'm in absolutely no doubt which I preferred & it wasn't the DFI ...

Oh wait, they released a fifth motherboard, the AN7.... :rolleyes:
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Which is another very good board again with a different feature set.
 
had LANParty & LANParty Bs but they also had revisions within that ...
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your right there... I have a rev. 2 and it is pretty good... I have some bios problems, though, and it only seems to work with a modded bios... I got the board from a trade, and I tried to put an updated stock bios on it and it won't boot... so I just put the modded one back.
 
The only thing I did with my NFII Infinity was flash it with Hellfire's BIOS. Mixed some Samsung PC2700 memory with my 2500+ and it ran at 2.3 GHz for 8 months. Yes, DFI had their issues, but as the company progressed over the past few years with their products, you cannot deny their popularity.

I think we can both agree that we have a love/hate relationship or either company, but that is just our personal experiences. Let us allow to the thread continue normally.
 
fireluxx said:
Yes, DFI had their issues, but as the company progressed over the past few years with their products, you cannot deny their popularity.

I think we can both agree that we have a love/hate relationship or either company, but that is just our personal experiences.
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Well, I've run DFI nF2, nF3 & nF4 boards as well as my Abits & I don't hate either - I was just pointing out inaccuracies in your statement re. revisions & particularly putting the consumer class NF7-S2 in the same class with either of the enthusiast NF7-S V2.0 or DFI boards.
 
I'm STILL running an A7N8X-E Deluxe, over two years with an XP-M at 12x200. 100% stable and overclocks very well.

No CPU die reading though, socket only. But that's probably the only lame attribute of this board (outside of the fact that it's quite dated now).

Last of the NF2 Abit boards are probably a little better for max FSB clocking though. (My asus will do over 220 before the RAM craps out.)
 
NF-7 Rev. 2 is one I still use also. It sits out in the living area of the house with the XP 2500+ running at 200fsb just like it has for a couple of years, and it still serves for most of the household computing and grandkids gaming activities. The thing's a long way from being a useless item yet.

There's a far more up to date system sitting here in front of me, though :D
 
Baditude said:
Best socket A, my vote goes to the Abit NF7-S ver2. It was a very popular motherboard and was loved my most overclockers. I still run one in my family computer.
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I had three of these boards and they were all awesome boards, the nf7 is the way to go
 
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