[KamiQuazi]

I'm looking for a AMD 939 board without SLI support but i prefer the Nvidia Nforce 4 chipset, with SATA II (opitional RAID)... Any suggestion?

[ripken204]

hands down the dfi sli-dr

offers all of that plus more and is the best amd overclocking board out

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136151
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_s...TYPE=LP&SITE=US

This post has been edited by ripken204: 01 August 2005 - 09:11 PM

[spazmire11]

he said he dident want sli so the recomendation is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136152
its not sli but it dose have the posibilatys for dual graghix cards if your ever intrested
there is also a mod out there to turn it into a sli board

[ripken204]

oh crap ur right, i just saw best 939 board and sli and got excited, otherwise the board u posted is the best non-sli board

[jcarle]

In ASUS, the A8N-E is the definite choice.

[KamiQuazi]

I don't want SLI just because i don't belive the specs im looking at is worth the extra 500 buck for a additional video card for a extra what 10% perfromance gain... and then think of the extra ram required to run them, along with more power... and the list is never ending so... i rather stay with a single until they can impress me more... but im gonna get away from my 32-bit AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (with a very slow FBS of 133 MHz, ok everyone laugh, I am so it is ok), but im am on a PCI Video Card... This board doesn't even have AGP... (now ur laughing)... ok... I want a board with a 16x PCI-E, and at least 4 PCI slot... SATA II, NForce 4, I want RAID (but i don't care if u find a board without it)...

@spazmire11:
****... a nice board... just entered into my considered box...

@ Everyone:
Anymore suggestion

[ripken204]

the dfi nf4 ultra and thats final

[KamiQuazi]

'ight im gonna purchase it later this month...

[ripken204]

u need help on any other parts?

[jcarle]

SLI is about to die off just as fast as it came onto the market. It costs too much to build SLI machines, and the technology is too young, not many people want to get into it. Or if they do, not by very much. The trend is changing instead to create video cards with dual GPU on the same card instead of SLI solutions. ATI and nVidia are both developing new dual GPU video cards.

[ripken204]

actually sli is going away, but will be replaced by sli2. and the g71 and the r520 are suppose to be dual slot(not too sure what that means)

yes almost no one can afford sli and it hasnt even reached its full potential, hence sli2, but if u are a hardcore gamer then thats what its for

[KamiQuazi]

I never liked the whole SLI thing... it to my just made no sence in buy two cards linking them together when sooner or later Nvidia and ATI are gonna make dual-GPUs... and i can't wait... i'll prolly buy one of them over the SLI bullsh*t...

@Ripken204:
Ram i really don;t know much about... all i know is that i need DIMM and i want Dual Channel... I would rather have RAM that was desgined for overclocking since i want to overclock this system

[ripken204]

the best overclocking ram is the mushkin redline 4000, just make sure that u have a fan on them

[KamiQuazi]

@Ripken:
I was planning on a watercooling system.. do they make heat spreaders for RAM?

[Mekrel]

Dual slot means the cooler takes up one PCI slot as its so big.

SLi isnt bullcrap either, there are no card VGA solutions out there which will un tre latest games at 1900 resolution and higher with all the eye candy and AA filtering. There are people who own dell/apple widescreen monitors and such that need SLi.

Although SLi has been too bugy with its vsync, and running atl ower than the monitors native resolution and such.

DFI board is good but it can be problematic, make sure you read up on it before you start building. Most cases needs 1 stick of memory in one of the dimms and to flash to one of the latest bios' although there are alot of bios' around becausea each type of RAM such as TCCD and BH-5 and the like have thier own bios to work best

[KamiQuazi]

Not doubting u r anything but i have never seen a monitor that REQUIERES SLI, i do admit i could be wrong but i just haven't seen one...

[ripken204]

who said anything about a monitor requiring sli, unlees u gto confused with him saying 1900 resoulution, u can change the resolution of ur monitor but with a crappy vid card the larger resolutions dont look right but if u had 780gt's in sli then it looks amazing.

the mushkin redline does come with heatspreaders but they got rly hot so u need a fan

This post has been edited by ripken204: 02 August 2005 - 11:35 AM

[JasonGW]

I've got an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, but I haven't used the SLI. My 6800GT is so **** fast with every game I play that I can't justify any reason to get another card for SLI However, when prices drop and I can snag another 6800GT for around $130 or so, and the drivers support has matured, I'll probably get one. No hurries though

Jason

[Mekrel]

The monitor doesnt require SLI, but playing at that resolution and to obtainplayable frame rate does.

[KamiQuazi]

I won't go higher than a res of 1600*1200... I have really bad eye sight so im doing good to see that now... but I already picked out the video card.... a 6600 GT