New MOBO needed

TMHatter · 7 Apr 2006 at 22:44

I am after a new MOBO as my ASUS AN8-E is giving more and more gip.

What I am after is a socket 939 board with a passively cooled chipset. Like the ABIT and ASUS boards. I would also like it to be able to control the speed of the chassis fan as well.

I am not really interested in an SLI board and need two PCI slots for my expansion cards. What boards would you recommend?

I ask because on paper the AN8-E was supposed to have auto fan speed but only controlled the CPU fan, and the NB fan was very noisy

Any suggestions would be welcome

xirokx · 8 Apr 2006 at 19:27

DFI mobos are good especially if you are overclocking....

They are more options in the bios I believe as opposed to the other 2 options you mentioned therefore providing you more control

TMHatter · 8 Apr 2006 at 20:20

Silence is golden and I am more interested in a board which achieves that than a massive over clock.

Can anyone who has a Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4, Tell me what fans Q-Fan actually has control over ? Is it just the CPU fan or can it control the chassis fan aswell. The blurb say it does but so did the blurb for my AN8-E

TMHatter · 8 Apr 2006 at 21:39

Also what are the ATI chipped MOBO's like. I ask for two reasons. First they are passively cooled,or at least the Abit AT8 is. Secondly I have a ATI 800XL card at the moment and if I under crossfire properly I could put in a second 800 series card in to boost my graphics performance.

Mikey1280 · 8 Apr 2006 at 22:17

I wouldn't really base your whole buying decision on whether the board can control the fans or not, thats what a fan controllers for. You could also buy a zalman passive northbridge block and have a 7v amber or similar blowing some air across it. Although the Asus A8N sli boards with passive NBs are meant to be good.