Law One to be upgraded... Choice #1 The Motherboard.

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Postby law.of.averages » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:17 am

Just clicked submit on the following:

Motherboard - ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe WiFi
CPU - AMD Athalon 64 X2 4200+ 65W AM2
RAM - OCZ Gold 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2-800 PC6400
PSU - Enermax Whisper II 535W

In the end, I decided to go with the M2N32 because it had most of the features of the crossfire, was $30 cheaper, and had better reviews. As attractive as the Intel board looked, I'm still thinking I'll get more incremental upgrades out of the AM2 socket.

Now on to choice two...
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Postby Nytefyre » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:38 am

i personally love ASUS boards...

just dont flash the BIOS

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Postby Porkinator » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:41 am

Yea Asus is better than the MSI and Gigabyte boards. Tom's hardware uses them in their test setups.
Nice config there Law.
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Postby law.of.averages » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:43 am

Thanks... Hopefully everything will play well together.
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Postby nonstop » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:52 am

law.of.averages wrote:Thanks... Hopefully everything will play well together.


The pig speaks truth. Asus is the biggest maker right now, they have lots more resources and their boards are better. They had a rough go in the late 90's but there good now.

Lots of hard core overclockers like the DFI boards. Very good quality, solid capacitors etc...
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