from AMD to C2D

MuSsEr · 23 Feb 2007 at 11:23

Hello all,

My current rig is in my sig, but I am about to get rid of some of it in the vain hope of keeping it up to dat

I'll be selling the CPU (3500+) the RAM (2gig corsair) and the mobo (Asus A8N-SLI)

and replacing them with the following:
Core 2 Duo 6400
2Gig Corsair TwinX PC6400 Dominator 4-4-4-12

as for the motherboard, I would like a bit of advise, I like Asus, but am open to Abit suggestions (and anything else which is not ASRock or Gigabyte)

I'm thinking about this one:
Asus P5NT-WS SLI

But would really like to know the difference between it and other asus' such as:
Asus P5N32-E SLI PLUS C55
Asus P5N32-E SLI NF680i SLI

Which is the bext out of those 3?
Are the P5N32's better than the first one as they have dual 16x slots, or do all 3 have this?
Is the P5NT any good or are the other two much better than it?

Any advise would be good, thanks

mishima · 23 Feb 2007 at 11:51

Hi there, just as a warning. I would stay away from Abit AB9 - I have one and I regret getting it because of the poor layout on it. One question, why not Gigabyte? The DS3 would be excellent for the system you are hoping to get!

MuSsEr · 23 Feb 2007 at 13:04

never really like gigabyte and i've heard ppl saying quite a few picky issues with ds3

mishima · 23 Feb 2007 at 14:01

I had a DS4 before my AB9 but had to RMA it. Looked really nice, had great layout etc. Wish I had gone for another DS3/4. I would go for the DS3 they are excellent boards for clocking and performance.

The Asus boards you have mentioned any reason why you have selected those? Cause the Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 is much cheaper and is a good contender to the DS3 if you prefer to go elsewhere.

steve258 · 23 Feb 2007 at 14:12

mishima said:
Cause the Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 is much cheaper and is a good contender to the DS3 if you prefer to go elsewhere.

Thought so too but according to the latest CPC review it is not as overclockable as its big brother P5N32 or the Intel 965 based P5B or commando, because of unstable vcore. There are a few problems with layout like the SATA ports being blocked when you use a second dual slot GFX and the old school SLI switch card.

On the + side you do get 4 IDE channels though.

MuSsEr said:
But would really like to know the difference between it and other asus' such as:
Asus P5N32-E SLI PLUS C55
Asus P5N32-E SLI NF680i SLI

I'd like to know too since they are exactly the same price. :confused:

braveheart · 23 Feb 2007 at 14:42

Gigabyte still good one for C2D with Nvidia chipset -- Im still using Athlon 64 Socket 939 (running A64 FX-55 San Diego with K8NXP-9 motherboard) still great all way since I bought lasy June 2005, no problems at all. Im still never buy or move to Intel, always stay with AMD...

MuSsEr · 24 Feb 2007 at 10:12

mishima said:
The Asus boards you have mentioned any reason why you have selected those? Cause the Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 is much cheaper and is a good contender to the DS3 if you prefer to go elsewhere.

I chose them because I wanted the 680 chipset as apposed to the 650

anyone know the difference on those asus boards then? or is it barely anything at all?