Which Motherboard For Under £100 - for gaming (PCI-E)

duncsharp · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:07

I have amd 3700 (939) - san diego
1gb (dual) geil value

will be getting shortly ATI 1800XT 256MB

I primarily will be using the PC for GAMING!!!!

Any help would be great!

duncsharp · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:28

i was thinking of 3 possibilites!

Asus k8-Ne

DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS)

any suggestions - i want it for games primarily but also want it to be as stable as possible!!

thx

Duncan

Traducer · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:29

Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
Price: £59.95 (£70.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Or you could go for the Premium version, but only reason to go for that really is for the silent cooling on the chipset, thats about it, in my opinion anyway.
And the SLi ofcourse, but you won't be using that.

Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard
Price: £99.95 (£117.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)

The above you posted also look nice, any one of those will do the job just fine.

Aidoscuz · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:35

If you plan on overclocking a lot then the DFI LANParty NF4 Ultra-D would be your best bet. If not I'd go with Traducer's suggestion and get the Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra.

duncsharp · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:37

will any of the abouve motherboards run better with my ATI x1800xt?

or will they all be same, also which of these boards has better online sound and lan?

Stupido · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:38

depends how much you plan to overclock , if any , and if you want good onboard sound etc. Also worth considering the ati based mobos as some have decent video built in , to tide u over when u sell your 1800

Traducer · 20 Apr 2006 at 23:38

They should all be the same, its the same chipset, so don't worry about it to much.
Hehe thats the sort of thing I always think about, don't worry about that.

Don't bother with an ATI chipset, stick with the nForce4 mate, I have my reasons for this and so do many others, but I don't feel like typing out a huge post explaining it all hehe.
To be honest, you will be happy with any of those boards mate.

duncsharp · 21 Apr 2006 at 08:54

i was just wondering why the Geforce4 chipset is better than the ATI equivilant?

also having good onboard sound and LAN is a real importance so if any of the above the boards have one better than the other that will tip the scales!!!

cheers

Duncan

helpimcrap · 21 Apr 2006 at 09:05

the DFI has karajan 7.1 audio and i find it excellent... it also has a lower CPU usage than the others.... around 2% i think compared to around 5% for the rest.