Gonna go pick up a motherboard today

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:07 am

Need something to put my 2000+ athlon xp into, since my current motherboard's capacitors are leaking.

My choice is either:

ASUS A7N8X-X $85 CAD
XP SOCK-A ASUS A7N8X $105 CAD

Do I understand correctly that the only difference between these two is that A7N8X has Dual Channel DDR?

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:13 am

maybe, should tell you when you google it though?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:06 pm

I went on the Asus site to check, so I'm just posting here to double check.

Post by **Magestic** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:13 pm

That's pretty much right. The -X versions of the ASUS boards are the budget line, they lack certain functions, such as Dual Channel and maybe others (no extra IDE/SATA controller or FireWire? not sure).

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:00 pm

Spend the extra cash on the better board TB.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:04 pm

Why, I dont need dual channel DDR... its only a replacement mobo till I get a new computer in a couple years.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:17 pm

the A7N8X-E Delux has dual, Firewire, and SATA.. with the Standard A7n8X-X dosent have those....

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:22 am

ToxicBug wrote:Why, I dont need dual channel DDR... its only a replacement mobo till I get a new computer in a couple years.

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Dual channel is considerably faster and well worth the extra cost, especially if its going to be awhile until your next upgrade.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon May 02, 2005 2:25 am

Tormentius wrote:
ToxicBug wrote:Why, I dont need dual channel DDR... its only a replacement mobo till I get a new computer in a couple years.
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Dual channel is considerably faster and well worth the extra cost, especially if its going to be awhile until your next upgrade.

agreed..

dont cheap out chump//

Post by **FrEaK44** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:21 pm

this seems like a good place to ask this question.
i would like a motherboard and a video card to run gta 3, madden 2003 and any other 2003 games my budget so far is $100.00
got any good ones.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:25 pm

100 bucks for new mobo and graphics card is very hard to do to get anything worth while.

Also what processor do you have?

Post by **FrEaK44** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:24 pm

that's later maybe, or should i just get a ps2 or xbox on ebay.