Need A Mobo

[Hawkk]

Yo.

I'm building from scratch and have most of the essentials (At least I have them in mind...).

Here's what I got:

Athlon64 X2 3800
GeForce 6800 256mb
Western Digital Raptor, 10,000 RPM 74gb SATA

What I need out of a MOBO:

939 Socket compatible with and X2
PCI Express for the Video Card
SATA Compatible
Preferibly Good Sound *Optical* and LAN aboard
Enough PCI Slots
Dual Channel possible and at least 2 g of RAM

I was looking at this:

MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Socket 939 ATX

and one of the GIGABYTE comparable ones.

QUESTIONS:

1. Am I good with the MSI?
2. Any higher quality MOBO brands? I heard ASUS was lacking with AMD
3. What exactly is the difference with the SLI ones...


Thanks

 

[Trotter]

MSI are good, but not extremely overclockable. They overclock some, but not a lot.

Top-o-the-line right now would have to be DFI Lanparty mobos.

SLI mobos are made so as to be able to run two PCI-e graphics cards linked together. Not that you have to, but you could. Plus, they have nVidia's latest chipset.

 

[amdrocks]

1. MSI is pretty good too(Diamond version is better, but I don't think they have that in U.S.)
2. I like my Gigabyte motherboard you can consider about it.
3. SLI can have two graphic cards at the same time.

 

[Lonewolf5460]

1.msi is a good brand
2.i dont know about higher quality but DFI is another option
3.Sli mobos u can have another 6800 and run both of them.google sli or go to nvidia's website

 

[Hawkk]

OK guys. All I hear about is this DFI board. But does it support my X2?!

it says Athlon 64, FX, and Sempron. No X2

 

[amdrocks]

just update the bios and it'll able to support x2
this is the motherboard I'm talking about, I like Gigabyte better.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-K8NXP-SLI.htm

 

[Hawkk]

I'm somewhat a noob at all this tho. Is digging into the bios to make it work for an X2 gonna be a problem? It is up front and simple?