On Tuesday 04 July 2006 06:26, Hamish Marson wrote: > Hi all. > > My son's PC died (Bad caps) so he's getting my old one (Asus A8V with > AMD64 3200) and I'm going to buy a new motherboard & a 4200 X2 > processor. The question is, what's a good motherboard nowadays for > AMD64 x2 processors?
I'm using an Asus A8N-SLI Premium with my Opteron 180 and love it. Haven't had any problems with any of the nvidia chipset features, it's stable (30+ days uptime running foldingathome 24/7 on both cores), and, if you only run one PCI-E graphics card, you'll have an x8 PCI-E slot for [you-fill-in-the-blank]. Sound is not audiophile-quality but is definitely more than decent. There are two GigE ports [one nvidia and one Marvell (uses the SKGE driver)]. There are only 3 PCI slots, however, but you could easily make up the difference with the extra x8 and x4 PCI-E slots and adaptors. Bill -- [email protected] mailing list
