(edit: added new post #13 at bottom, Jan 15 2009, with replacement info)
It's been a while since I've been in these threads to view latest trends.
Ran out of current stock of Jetway A210GDMS-PRO motherboards, and seeing if anything beats it yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From benchmarks that I have found so far, not yet, but I'm sure I missed some.
Looks like the new AM2 with ATi scores worse, and the nvidia 6100/6150's never ran as fast.
Looking for the next batch of motherboards to buy.
Low cost is a must, so thinking AM2 and DDR2.
It needs to be "better than" the year old Jetway's, which run the following here:
**Opteron capable of 300 x10.
While capable here, I lowered to 300MHz x 9 for lower heat, and near silent Zalman HSF.
(yes, onboard NIC craps out at that speed, but using wireless G anyway, so it didn't matter).
**Onboard ATi video (Jetway uses 32meg dedicated on motherboard+shared) speeds of:
3dm2k1se = 7910
3dmark03 = 2096
3dmark05 = 799
**PCIe + 2 usable PCI slots, which means if you run optional PCIe card with huge HSF, you can still use PCI slots.
**Includes TV-Out of svideo/composite video/
**HDA + S/PDIF optical & coax.
**20 pin power supply requirement, for use in lower wattage mATX cases. (must work with 200w to 250w like the Jetways do).
**Plus needs basics like at least one IDE connection, SATA, 6+ USB ports, SerialPort Com1, bla, bla bla.
**100% stable and reliable. (Had 5 Jetways, and all were 100% here running properly configured "naked" Bios).
Don't need anything else like firewire, DVI or SATA II, but wouldn't hurt as long as it still at least met the above needs.
These are used for HTPC, with occasional gaming, so the onboard needs to be at least what these current Jetway boards do.
So far it looks like I'll need to pick up some more Jetway's in order to at least keep same performance, and wait for next gen to get better boards???? For years all I ran was onboard nvidia up to the NF2's, and ended up sticking in an ATi 8500 AGP card in most of them. Then, while looking at the new nvidia 6100's, stumbled onto the Jetway ATi's, and made the switch. Onboard that was faster than ATi 8500/9100 or GF3 Ti500. It would be hard to go back to nvidia, but if specs, price and reliability are much better than the ATi's, I'll give them another try.
Thanks in advance!
Rob
It's been a while since I've been in these threads to view latest trends.
Ran out of current stock of Jetway A210GDMS-PRO motherboards, and seeing if anything beats it yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From benchmarks that I have found so far, not yet, but I'm sure I missed some.
Looks like the new AM2 with ATi scores worse, and the nvidia 6100/6150's never ran as fast.
Looking for the next batch of motherboards to buy.
Low cost is a must, so thinking AM2 and DDR2.
It needs to be "better than" the year old Jetway's, which run the following here:
**Opteron capable of 300 x10.
While capable here, I lowered to 300MHz x 9 for lower heat, and near silent Zalman HSF.
(yes, onboard NIC craps out at that speed, but using wireless G anyway, so it didn't matter).
**Onboard ATi video (Jetway uses 32meg dedicated on motherboard+shared) speeds of:
3dm2k1se = 7910
3dmark03 = 2096
3dmark05 = 799
**PCIe + 2 usable PCI slots, which means if you run optional PCIe card with huge HSF, you can still use PCI slots.
**Includes TV-Out of svideo/composite video/
**HDA + S/PDIF optical & coax.
**20 pin power supply requirement, for use in lower wattage mATX cases. (must work with 200w to 250w like the Jetways do).
**Plus needs basics like at least one IDE connection, SATA, 6+ USB ports, SerialPort Com1, bla, bla bla.
**100% stable and reliable. (Had 5 Jetways, and all were 100% here running properly configured "naked" Bios).
Don't need anything else like firewire, DVI or SATA II, but wouldn't hurt as long as it still at least met the above needs.
These are used for HTPC, with occasional gaming, so the onboard needs to be at least what these current Jetway boards do.
So far it looks like I'll need to pick up some more Jetway's in order to at least keep same performance, and wait for next gen to get better boards???? For years all I ran was onboard nvidia up to the NF2's, and ended up sticking in an ATi 8500 AGP card in most of them. Then, while looking at the new nvidia 6100's, stumbled onto the Jetway ATi's, and made the switch. Onboard that was faster than ATi 8500/9100 or GF3 Ti500. It would be hard to go back to nvidia, but if specs, price and reliability are much better than the ATi's, I'll give them another try.
Thanks in advance!
Rob