M/B recommendation for use with 9800 Pro?

[Joe]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will work
well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

 

[NDF]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will work
well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

I have an MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR, which has all the latest features you could
want and it runs great with my Radeon 9800 Pro.

 

[Wayne Youngman]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will work
well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

Hi,
I can highly recommend the ABIT NF7-S to you. It's now a legendary mobo,
and also has AWESOME onboard audio system called Soundstorm. I won't go
into to much detail, but suffice is to say that Soundstorm is the *best*
gamers onboard audio solution around, it can do dolby-digital encoding
(ENCODING, not decoding) so that your games will be played back in
Dolby-Digital 5:1 if you have the right Amp+ Speakers.

If onboard audio (sata+ firewire) is not important to you, then grab an ABIT
NF7. . .

The 9800 rocks!

 

[Ben Pope]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will
work well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

As already posted - I decent nForce2 board.

I have the A7N8X Deluxe.

Ben

 

[Dark Avenger]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will work
well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

Mmm, I find ASUS a good branch. Make good motherboards, wich runs
stabile and tends to overclock well even!



They got AGP 8x motherboards in both Intel chipset, Sis Chipsets (
cheaper and still very good ) and I also believe VIA chipsets. So
choice enough!

Wich one you need... well..what do you want on your "pizza" ..heheh...
there is so much choice on what to get, onboard sound, onboard gigabit
network. But there are ofcourse also simple pure "pizzas" with not
much extra features and definitly cheap.

Go Asus...or MSI... or Chaintech... just one of the bigger names in
the computerworld!

If you are truly on budget, ASrock.. the budgetline of Asus!

 

[dino]

I am running the Asus NF2 A7N8X-Deluxe board..very good with my
9600XT...also check out DFI's NF2 boards..they are really getting some good
reviews

 

[Robert P Drake]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will work
well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

Just don't get an Antec ps with that, they've told me they're
"incompatible".

 

[Mike Moseng]

I've decided to finally get rid of my crap PC Chip's motherboard. What's a
good choice for a new one that will support an Athlon XP chip and will work
well with a powercolor 9800 pro?

Heh! Usually one gets a MB and then finds a suitable graphics gard!

 

[Slug]

Just don't get an Antec ps with that, they've told me they're
"incompatible".

Which Antec PSU? I saw someone post that they were told not to use an
Antec 380w that comes in the Sonata case, but somehow I think this
information is bogus. I use a 400w Antec Smartpower with a 9800pro
fine. I've seen people post with Sonmata cases that have no problems
with a 9800pro. Or is it just this make of the 9800pro? If that's the
case then I would keep far away from them.

 

[dino]

I have seen posts similar to that...I have 2 systems..one is running a
Chenming 601 AE case with an Enermax 465 with 9600XT..no grief..second is a
Chieftec with an Enermax 465 with a MSI 4200VTD8X-128..rock solid also. So I
would go out on a limb and recommend an empty tower with an Enermax PSU

 

[dino]

just for info..
System 1(my toy)
Chenming 601 AE windowed
Enermax 465 FM
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Uber Bios 1007
Barton 2500 200x11=XP3200( can run 215X11)
3-256 OCZ PC3200EL
ATI 9600XT
System 2(my game server)
Chieftec Mini Dragon Windowed
Enermax 465FM
DFI AD77 Infinity running RAID 0
Barton 2500 180x11
1-512 Nanya PC2700
MSI Ti4200VTD8X-128
there is many more components..but what you chose makes the difference..do
some research after all the input from here and decide for yourself

 

[Robert P Drake]

Which Antec PSU? I saw someone post that they were told not to use an
Antec 380w that comes in the Sonata case, but somehow I think this
information is bogus. I use a 400w Antec Smartpower with a 9800pro
fine. I've seen people post with Sonmata cases that have no problems
with a 9800pro. Or is it just this make of the 9800pro? If that's the
case then I would keep far away from them.

I got the info from Antec Tech support. Ask them.

 

[SLB]

Which Antec PSU? I saw someone post that they were told not to use an
Antec 380w that comes in the Sonata case, but somehow I think this
information is bogus. I use a 400w Antec Smartpower with a 9800pro
fine. I've seen people post with Sonmata cases that have no problems
with a 9800pro. Or is it just this make of the 9800pro? If that's the
case then I would keep far away from them.

Im running the 9800 pro with a Antec 430 "True Power" and it works
flawless with the card.

 

[Robert P Drake]

Im running the 9800 pro with a Antec 430 "True Power" and it works
flawless with the card.

Antec 380 True Power not 430.

 

[J. Clarke]

Antec 380 True Power not 430.

Bear in mind that the power supply in the Sonata is _not_ the one you buy in
a box--Antec has made some mods on it to make it run quieter.

 

[John Hall]

I think there are Antecs, and there are Antecs. A case I bought last year
had a 400 W Antec power supply that failed within six months. Frankly it
looked cheap. I currently have an 550 W Antec True Power supply and it's
sweet. Quiet, cool and not a hiccup.

JK

 

[Slug]

I got the info from Antec Tech support. Ask them.

And exactly what did they say? Were they talking about just the
Powercolor version or all 9800pro vid cards? And I've seen this info
before, Antech did'nt say all Antec power supplies, they said the
380w model that comes in the Sonata case. You made it sound like all
Antec psu's which is complete BS.

 

[Slug]

Antec 380 True Power not 430.

Oh, and now you decide to come out with the truth instead of a
misleading statement.

You said, "Just don't get an Antec ps with that, they've told me
they're "incompatible".". That is a damaging statement and you should
be more preecise in what you say. We still don't know if they are
talking about the Powercolor version of the 9800pro or all versions.
They may simply have said that because the they don't consider the
380w version of the Truepower poweful enough for the 9800pro. But, I
know there are many people with Sonata cases (has 380w Truepower) and
a 9800pro and htey have no problems. This subject needs better
clarification.

 

[Slug]

Bear in mind that the power supply in the Sonata is _not_ the one you buy in
a box--Antec has made some mods on it to make it run quieter.

The only mod I know of is that it has one fan instead of two, and they
may have beefed up the internal heatsink but not sure about that. I
highly doubt the amp ratings are changed at all, which is what would
determine if it is enough PSU for the 9800pro.

 

[Slug]

I think there are Antecs, and there are Antecs. A case I bought last year
had a 400 W Antec power supply that failed within six months. Frankly it
looked cheap. I currently have an 550 W Antec True Power supply and it's
sweet. Quiet, cool and not a hiccup.

JK

Anything can fail so that doesn't really say anything. I have a 400w
Smartpower Antec (that's their cheaper line) that came in an Antec
case that I bought and it has been rock solid for two years now. And
that's running a 9800pro right now. I also have a Zalman 400w that
cost me $150.00 CAD and is being used in a less powerful system
because I found the 12v rail was better on the Antec than the Zalman.
Zalman have since beefed up the 12v rail on the new version of the
same PSU. Old model =15amps on the 12v rail, new model has 18amps.