AMD 64 questions

[--Tom--]

Hi

I'm upgrading my PC.

1 a) What are decent brands of motherboard for Athlon 64?

1 b) Are Gigabyte and MSI still the good ones? Any other recommend-me-dos?

2 ) Which chipset is better out of nforce3 and via/sis?

3 ) Also noticed that there seem to be two "workstation" editions of the
Athlon 64 cpu - Socket 754 & Socket 939 - what are the differences?

4 ) The motherboards I have looked at all seem to support a max of DDR400,
are there any AMD 64 boards circa £100 that support DDR500 or the new
PC2-3200/4200/5300 memory available from www.crucial.com?

Thats all for now, cheers.

 

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[Andy Jeffries]

I'm upgrading my PC.

1 a) What are decent brands of motherboard for Athlon 64?

1 b) Are Gigabyte and MSI still the good ones? Any other recommend-me-dos?

I bought an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum after reading LOTS of reviews.

2 ) Which chipset is better out of nforce3 and via/sis?

Matter of choice between the latest chipsets AFAIK...

3 ) Also noticed that there seem to be two "workstation" editions of the
Athlon 64 cpu - Socket 754 & Socket 939 - what are the differences?

Socket 939 is newer and features an onboard (dual channel) memory
controller.

4 ) The motherboards I have looked at all seem to support a max of DDR400,
are there any AMD 64 boards circa £100 that support DDR500 or the new
PC2-3200/4200/5300 memory available from www.crucial.com?

Not that I know of. The memory from crucial.com is basically just
guaranteed for overclocking to those speeds.

Cheers,


Andyh