I am building a new AMD box and need help__I don't have any PCI Express
cards, and looking at the list of ASUS boards, I can only find 1 board with
4 PCI slots__ASUS M2V, which is enough for me and at a price of A$79 it
seems a bit cheap__please can anyone help with something similar__have been
at this for days and not getting anywhere ________Thanks to all

Seems OT for this newsgroup, but...

I start at Newegg. They have a good "power search" function. If I search for
Socket AM2 boards with 4 or 5 PCI slots, only 5 are returned:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...lue=735%3A7583

(link may wrap).

None are much more expensive than the M2V. The M2V uses a Via chipset. Via
doesn't have as favorable a reputation as nVidia. However, the one Via-based
board I used (Asus A8V Deluxe) was mostly trouble free.

From what you wrote, I thought that you required an AGP graphics slot, but
none of these (including the M2V) have one. Are you prepared to buy a PCI-E
graphics card, or are you content with a PCI one? (If the latter, getting a
PCI-E card would free up a PCI slot.)

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"me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am building a new AMD box and need help__I don't have any PCI Express
>cards, and looking at the list of ASUS boards, I can only find 1 board with
>4 PCI slots__ASUS M2V, which is enough for me and at a price of A$79 it
>seems a bit cheap__please can anyone help with something similar__have been
>at this for days and not getting anywhere ________Thanks to all
>
>

checked the url to newegg and read all the reviews___some of the reviews put
me off___looked at your asus A8V Deluxe and noticed it was socket 939__I
will probably still go with the Asus M2V__one reviewer said this MBO will
not accept duel-core__dont know how he got into the reviews__I will have to
purchase a new VGA card PCI-e which will be an Asus card, and another
reviewer pointed out that if you put DDR2 800 memory onto the MBO you would
have to change the Bios settings to downgrade to DDR2 667____thanks for your
input_Bill in OZ



"me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am building a new AMD box and need help__I don't have any PCI Express
>cards, and looking at the list of ASUS boards, I can only find 1 board with
>4 PCI slots__ASUS M2V, which is enough for me and at a price of A$79 it
>seems a bit cheap__please can anyone help with something similar__have been
>at this for days and not getting anywhere ________Thanks to all
>
>

this board is $99 after rebates and works really well (just built 1 for my
nephew). If I remember right the M2 will not do SLI at X16 in both slots.
I use to build allot of Asus but they have slipped lately.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128014

"me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> checked the url to newegg and read all the reviews___some of the reviews
> put me off___looked at your asus A8V Deluxe and noticed it was socket
> 939__I will probably still go with the Asus M2V__one reviewer said this
> MBO will not accept duel-core__dont know how he got into the reviews__I
> will have to purchase a new VGA card PCI-e which will be an Asus card,
> and another reviewer pointed out that if you put DDR2 800 memory onto the
> MBO you would have to change the Bios settings to downgrade to DDR2
> 667____thanks for your input_Bill in OZ
>
>
>
> "me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I am building a new AMD box and need help__I don't have any PCI Express
>>cards, and looking at the list of ASUS boards, I can only find 1 board
>>with 4 PCI slots__ASUS M2V, which is enough for me and at a price of A$79
>>it seems a bit cheap__please can anyone help with something similar__have
>>been at this for days and not getting anywhere ________Thanks to all
>>
>>
>
>

I didn't mean to suggest an A8V. I know that it's S. 939.

According to Asus, the M2V accepts a variety of X2 (dual core) CPUs:

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us

I vaguely recall that the S. 939 version of the Via K8T890 chipset (the
chipset used on this board) didn't support dual core, but apparently that
was fixed for S. AM2.

I don't get why you'd need to run the RAM at DDR2 667. Some mainboards have
a feature that clocks the RAM back if all 4 DIMM sockets are filled, for
stability. That can be manually over-ridden if the RAM is sufficiently
compatible with the board, though.

Best of luck.

"me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> checked the url to newegg and read all the reviews___some of the reviews
> put me off___looked at your asus A8V Deluxe and noticed it was socket
> 939__I will probably still go with the Asus M2V__one reviewer said this
> MBO will not accept duel-core__dont know how he got into the reviews__I
> will have to purchase a new VGA card PCI-e which will be an Asus card,
> and another reviewer pointed out that if you put DDR2 800 memory onto the
> MBO you would have to change the Bios settings to downgrade to DDR2
> 667____thanks for your input_Bill in OZ
>
>
>
> "me" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I am building a new AMD box and need help__I don't have any PCI Express
>>cards, and looking at the list of ASUS boards, I can only find 1 board
>>with 4 PCI slots__ASUS M2V, which is enough for me and at a price of A$79
>>it seems a bit cheap__please can anyone help with something similar__have
>>been at this for days and not getting anywhere ________Thanks to all
>>
>>
>
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