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Which AM2 board to get?

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WintersFury

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First off, don't tell me to get a C2D board. I'll get enough cpu power out of the AM2 and have more $ left to spend on my graphics which is where it's at for a gamer anyways.

That being said, I'm looking for a nice AM2 board to pair up with a Brisbane 5000+ Black Edition. I know the ABIT nView boards were popular but I know those that were are no longer sold. But I saw that there are two new Abit boards the NF-M2S and AN-M2 nView. Also looking at the Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H (Name is too long...) As well I've always had good luck with Gigabyte boards in the past.

Since the CPU I'm getting is multi unlocked I don't need the most stellar OCing board out there, just something that'll do a solid OC and last me a good number of years as I don't tend to upgrade my SFF box as much as my desktop (Actually my old ones been dead for a while...)


So thanks for reading, and if you know anything about the boards above / have one of them / could recommend one of them it would be great. Thanks!


Oh yeah, and if any of you know of any nice ALL modular psu's (Even the atx connector and all) please let me know as well, as I want an all modular that I can make custom length power cables for to keep the box insides nice and clean looking. Getting a TT Lanbox so I want it to look good if people look in the windows.
 
I can tell you the AN-M2 HD had up to X25 multiplier available with my 5000BE. It OC'd to 3 Ghz. I wouldn't waste money on the BE though, 4800 Brisbane should be good enough.
 
I thought about getting a slower chip, but I had set aside $200 for the cpu/mobo part of the build, but that was when I was going to build an Intel system and a nice mobo ran a lot more $.

Eh, who knows, depends on my mood when I actually buy it I guess. But the price doesn't seem too crazy high or anything, especially seeing how I hate the tweaking of this and that that you oftentimes have to do when OCing cpu's so the unlocked multi appeals to me very much. I much prefer the hard mod and play with clock speeds that you can do with graphics cards, but I think that's more due to the hard modding than anything else, lol.

How did the AN-M2 HD clock? I figure that should be pretty close to how the new nView does as I think it's the same board just with a HDMI connector on it or something like that.
 
I got up to 250, but didn't try any further. I've heard of guys on the Abit forums getting to 300, but couldn't go any further. I was going to test for them, but a co worker needed a replacement mobo in an emergency so I sold it to him. I have another one on the way and should be here the 26th.

The other good thing is that that mobo took 8 gigs of RAM just fine.
 
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