[plug] [OT] pc builting confusion

[Ben Jensz]

Ryan Smith wrote:

>Ok, well the decision on the athlon 64 is solid. I am just not sure what
>you are saying here. Should I go for the 745 or the 939.
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You should go for socket 939.  Socket 754 is older and slower.  I've 
personally got an Athlon 64 3500+ (939) running on an MSI K8N Neo2 
Platinum board (nVidia Nforce 3 250 chipset based board), and its very 
nice and fast.  I would not touch a VIA chipset based motherboard for 
either an Intel or AMD CPU, even though there are more VIA based boards 
for AMD available than others.

>Yep looking at stuff like that.
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>Has anyone had any problems with asus or gigabyte motherboards?
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I wouldn't touch Gigabyte (too many issues from what I've seen generally 
speaking), and I've had a friend who has had a few problems with his 
Asus board (Intel based).  I've recently had MSI boards and Abit boards 
myself and they've both been fine.


/ Ben