AMD Motherboards - Via K8T800
Via continues their K8T800-based motherboard lineups with new releases from both Epox (
9NDA3+) and Soltek (
SL-K8TPro-939), which only help to expand the possibilities for those looking to get onboard the Athlon 64 bandwagon. On top of that, prices for Via-based A64 boards seem to be coming down little by little, not that they were ever the most expensive options from the beginning. In the end, more choice is a great thing for everyone and board makers seem to be on a roll now with no end in sight.
Socket 754
The MSI K8T800 (754) Neo-FIS2R still shows up this week as a high-value, low-cost motherboard that would work well for any new system build where overclocking isn't the primary objective. Our
past review of this board shows that the Neo-FIS2R is a fully loaded board sporting everything from gigabit LAN, RAID, firewire, LED-based diagnostics, and 5.1 audio with a plethora of inputs and outputs, all in a great layout that would work well for just about any case design today. The performance of this board is also top-notch, giving you the most out of your socket 754 chip. This is important, since 754 will not have as long of a CPU upgrade path as 939. So, getting as much as possible from 754 only helps to bring more value to the table.
Socket 939
For those looking to get the latest and greatest, as well as take advantage of AMD's newer 90nm parts, the Abit K8T800 Pro (939) AV8 board is where it's at. This one has everything that we have come to expect from a motherboard today, including gigabit LAN, SAT, firewire, onboard 5.1 sound, and high-end performance.
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Chadder007 - Friday, November 19, 2004 - link
"N'wood S478 3.4c $133 more than 3.4 Prescott. Unbelievable. You can see what people are buying. intel should continue with N'wood and S478. "I agree about Socket 478....Intel didn't care to give those users too much of an upgrade path and just jumped all over to the new socket way too soon with little justification to do so.
qballshalls2002 - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
Still waiting for the nForce4 boards to show before I go slurging again. Hehehe!aw - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
Haha...sorry...I meant if you were trying to get to 1:1 DDR600 like a lot of Anandtechers are inclined to do. My DDR is bigger than your DDR;-)
jmke - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
" The only thing that will hold it back is the quality of your RAM... "most A64 boards features excellent memory:htt(fsb) dividers, and the impact on performance versus running memory at 1:1 is minimal
aw - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
I agree with #8. My new 3000+ easily hits 2.4ghz which makes it $160 3800+. The only thing that will hold it back is the quality of your RAM...arswihart - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
why get Athlon64 3200+ 90nm instead of 3000+? Can't they both overclock the same, as shown in Anand's own tests?bofkentucky - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
In the 9xx board section, its is the intel 915 chipset, not 912.Pumpkinierre - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
N'wood S478 3.4c $133 more than 3.4 Prescott. Unbelievable. You can see what people are buying. intel should continue with N'wood and S478.PseudoKnight - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
The Athlon XP 2800+ is flipping me off. I'm scared.slurmsmackenzie - Thursday, November 18, 2004 - link
how come the 915 chipset isn't listed? it offers pci-e without the conversion to ddr2? anandtech always puts the emphasis on the fact that an upgrade to 775 is an entire system overhaul, when 915 offers the meager upgrade of processor/mobo, or cpu/mobo/video card without a performance drop from 925x. so why a 925x board is suggested for price/performance efficiency is beyond me.