Soldato
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*Solved* Need a new board today
Sorry to create three threads in two days but I'm having some serious trouble.
My motherboard died yesterday which is an Asus A8N-SLI.
So I thought I'd get either an A8N-SLI Premium or A8N32-SLI Deluxe both passively cooled.
Both seem to have a problem when mounted vertically so that idea is no good, they will be going in a coolermaster stacker case so they will be vertical all the time.
My specs are:
AMD X2 4400+ (cooled with a Freezer 64)
2x 1Gb Corsair TwinX
1x 6800GT graphics card (other one was RMA'd and refunded)
2X DVD-RW
2X IDE HDD
4X SATA HDD
The computer has to work flawlessly in these hot conditions for up to 16 hours a day number crunching with photo editing and video encoding constantly - it's for my business.
I have decided that I will probably ditch SLI as I don't really get the time to play games and one powerful card is enough at the moment (I'm thinking of buying a friends 7800GT).
Can anyone recommend a good, cool, easy to use, reliable, quick board that I can have delivered tomorrow and will fulfil all my requirements?
I really haven't got the time to be hitting all the review sites over many differently specified motherboards...it took me weeks to decide on my spec last time so I am relying on other peoples experience and knowledge.
I'm at my wits end here so any suggestions will be massively appreciated!
Many thanks.
Sorry to create three threads in two days but I'm having some serious trouble.
My motherboard died yesterday which is an Asus A8N-SLI.
So I thought I'd get either an A8N-SLI Premium or A8N32-SLI Deluxe both passively cooled.
Both seem to have a problem when mounted vertically so that idea is no good, they will be going in a coolermaster stacker case so they will be vertical all the time.
My specs are:
AMD X2 4400+ (cooled with a Freezer 64)
2x 1Gb Corsair TwinX
1x 6800GT graphics card (other one was RMA'd and refunded)
2X DVD-RW
2X IDE HDD
4X SATA HDD
The computer has to work flawlessly in these hot conditions for up to 16 hours a day number crunching with photo editing and video encoding constantly - it's for my business.
I have decided that I will probably ditch SLI as I don't really get the time to play games and one powerful card is enough at the moment (I'm thinking of buying a friends 7800GT).
Can anyone recommend a good, cool, easy to use, reliable, quick board that I can have delivered tomorrow and will fulfil all my requirements?
I really haven't got the time to be hitting all the review sites over many differently specified motherboards...it took me weeks to decide on my spec last time so I am relying on other peoples experience and knowledge.
I'm at my wits end here so any suggestions will be massively appreciated!
Many thanks.
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