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rscott posted:Basically every AMD chipset up until the nForce 2 kind of sucked in its own way. Most of VIA's chipsets had lovely memory controller peformance, and most SiS stuff was terrifically unstable. This. I think I went through three motherboards during the life of my 1.3 Ghz Thunderbird, 2 VIAs and a SiS. The nforce2 board I got with my Athlon XP was a revelation. Yeah the nForce chipsets had their own issues but they were largely minor compared to the other available offerings.
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nForce2 was a bit long in the tooth at that point, but a lot of things never got proper Vista support due to Vista being so reviled. My current board is a ~6 year old nForce570 and runs Windows 7 just fine. Oh god chipset fans, ech. Mine has this sweet passive heatpipe cooler that puts the radiator in the path of the rear case exhaust fan. 
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Alereon posted:The AMD750 (Irongate) chipset was horribly unstable, mostly because it was the first generation chipset and the first one for the platform.  http://www.active-hardware.com/english/reviews/mainboard/sd11.htm Alereon posted:By the time of the KT133A the Via chipsets actually made for a pretty reasonable platform, as long as you didn't have a Soundblaster Live! card.
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This thread is full of nostalgia 
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Stanley Pain posted:This thread is full of nostalgia Yes, it just makes me miss good old abit motherboards from back in the day. 
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http://www.active-hardware.com/english/reviews/mainboard/a7n8x.htm This was the Athlon XP board to have, and it was great. I still have it in my htpc but it's defunct because I dropped my monstrous Zalman heatsink on the chip and cracked the core.
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Please. The A7N8X Deluxe version was the board to have. I still remember my first "onboard graphics" board sighting. My parents needed an upgrade and got talked into an ASUS SP97-V with an SiS chipset and a dirt cheap 6x86MX. That motherfucker was quite possibly the most stable PC they ever had and was in use until 2002, and surprisingly despite the generally poor FPU performance of Cyrix CPUs and questionable SiS chipset, I remember it running Virtua Cop 2 like a loving champ. PC LOAD LETTER posted:I remember waiting each month for a new version of the 4in1's to fix some weird issue that would pop up with all those VIA boards. Ahh memories. frumpsnake fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Apr 4, 2011 |
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Stanley Pain posted:This thread is full of nostalgia All the techs at the Best Buy I worked at when the Athlon came out went to some meeting, I didn't go for some reason. They all came back with a CPU+MB that the AMD rep gave out for free! 
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pienipple posted:http://www.active-hardware.com/english/reviews/mainboard/a7n8x.htm
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frumpsnake posted:Please. The A7N8X Deluxe version was the board to have. Yeah, I had the not-deluxe version because it was the one I could afford at the time. Still excellent though. 
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Alereon posted:Pshhh, Abit NF7-S v2.0, bitches. Remember when nVidia accidentally made good onboard audio on the nForce2, called SoundStorm? I assume it was an accident because they never repeated their mistake on future chipsets. My old motherboard with soundstorm still lives on at my parents house. I miss that old board. I miss soundstorm. That poo poo owned.
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pienipple posted:
I can't even recall the model of my video card these days, but I definitely remember loving my Epox 8RDA+. Those were the days, running my 1700+ thoroughbred at 2400+ at 35-40C with the stock cooler. In fact, I think it's still in my closet...
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Peanutmonger posted:I can't even recall the model of my video card these days, but I definitely remember loving my Epox 8RDA+. Those were the days, running my 1700+ thoroughbred at 2400+ at 35-40C with the stock cooler. poo poo, I'd totally forgotten I had one of the 8RDA* series boards before the Asus. I'm not sure exactly which one but I think it died when the horrible little chipset fan failed and my case at the time had all the cooling properties of a toaster oven. It was a good board but my cheap piece of poo poo case and inadequate cooling broiled it to death. pienipple fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 9, 2011 |
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frumpsnake posted:Please. The A7N8X Deluxe version was the board to have. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Apr 9, 2011 |
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Bob Morales posted:All the techs at the Best Buy I worked at when the Athlon came out went to some meeting, I didn't go for some reason. They all came back with a CPU+MB that the AMD rep gave out for free! I went to one of those when I worked for Staples. Was it the slot A Ahtlons that they got?
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Stanley Pain posted:I went to one of those when I worked for Staples. Was it the slot A Ahtlons that they got? Yes. Did you get one too, you son of a bitch?
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Peanutmonger posted:I can't even recall the model of my video card these days, but I definitely remember loving my Epox 8RDA+. Those were the days, running my 1700+ thoroughbred at 2400+ at 35-40C with the stock cooler. Yes, the 8RDA+ may not have had the features of the A7N8X, but it had such excellent value for the low price. Good thing too, I went through two or three of them thanks to watercooling accidents.
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All this nostalgia poo poo is great, but can we talk about the new processor to  over instead?
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Not much to talk about right now. Only new info. I've seen is that supposedly BD is now coming out at Computex. So early June. http://wccftech.com/2011/04/09/gigabyte-slide-reveals-amd-bulldozer-launch-date-launched-7th-june-computex-2011/ And yes the 8RDA+ was great. IIRC it had some of the VRM's on the back of the board which was weird and it used a different power supply spec, emphasizing the 3.3v rail, instead of the 5v or 12v rails like most PSU's. Caused it to behave oddly if you had a crappy PSU, but oh man was it good if you had a good one.
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Updated OP w/ GIGABYTE release info and basic info on the FX line.
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I'm trying to decide if I want to get a new mb and DDR3 ram next week and use my current processor until Bulldozer comes out or if I should wait and get the whole shebang after summer/early fall. Probably get the Asus M4A89GTD PRO if I do it now, most of my PC gaming is emulation so I can drop the loud as gently caress GeForce 7950GT from my current system and use the onboard graphics until I feel the need to add a discrete video card. Remove a loud fan and a major source of heat would be so, so nice...
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Get something from this list, it will be AM3+ compatible with a BIOS update.
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Bob Morales posted:Yes. Did you get one too, you son of a bitch? Yup  I actually sold it to some dude who collects this kind of crap not too long ago.
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Nonpython posted:Get something from this list, it will be AM3+ compatible with a BIOS update. The M4A89GTD* boards are also bios upgradable, Asus stated all their 890FX and 890GX boards will handle AM3+.
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To be perfectly sure I comprehend the OP correctly (because it's backwards from the previous jump), I'm using a Socket AM2+ motherboard right now with a Socket AM3 CPU. When Bulldozer drops, I can buy a Socket AM3+ motherboard and drop the Socket AM3 CPU right over? So basically Socket AM2+ motherboards were forwards compatible (with AM3 CPUs) and Socket AM3+ motherboards will be backwards compatible (with AM3 CPUs)? I've been considering a system upgrade but if Bulldozer is out in a few months I'll stick to upgrading just my graphics card if I've got the above worked out properly.
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Mo_Steel posted:To be perfectly sure I comprehend the OP correctly (because it's backwards from the previous jump), I'm using a Socket AM2+ motherboard right now with a Socket AM3 CPU. When Bulldozer drops, I can buy a Socket AM3+ motherboard and drop the Socket AM3 CPU right over? Some AM3 boards will be bios upgradeable to take an AM3+ chip, mostly 890FX/890GX chipset boards. All AM3+ boards will take an AM3 chip. pienipple fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 10, 2011 |
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Does anyone know for sure what the limitations may be of using AM3 boards instead of AM3+ ones? I've read something along the lines of voltage adjustment for power savings not being as good along with something related to Hyper Transport speeds.
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Inept posted:Does anyone know for sure what the limitations may be of using AM3 boards instead of AM3+ ones? I've read something along the lines of voltage adjustment for power savings not being as good along with something related to Hyper Transport speeds. No one will know until June.
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:I remember waiting each month for a new version of the 4in1's to fix some weird issue that would pop up with all those VIA boards. Ahh memories. drat I must had the worst luck with hardwares from that era. First the Slot A Athlon with GeForce DDR incompatibility. Then the VIA chipset that needed 4in1 patch to stay (somewhat) stable, but ultimately always locked up from time to time with the creative sound card. And finally the Abit VP6 that was great with dual P3 933 but had a bunch of bad caps ...
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DaNzA posted:And finally the Abit VP6 that was great with dual P3 933 but had a bunch of bad caps loving multicore hipsters. We were at it way back. Actually, I even had a dual P2-350. At some point, Intel dropped consumer multiprocessing and AMD didn't have any offerings. I refused to upgrade away from my own P3-933 until AMD released the Athlon X2.
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I apparently had a different experience to you guys because every loving nvidia chipset board I had would cause endless and bizarre problems. The worst of the lot was after I put together some Shuttle/nforce3 computer that would destroy harddrives. I send the drive back and get a replacement - it eats the replacement. I send that back and get another replacement and it eats that one. We're all a bit baffled at this point so I try with a couple of older disks - it destroys those. Anyway, to cut a boring story shorter the fix was to flash the firmware on the cd-rom drive in order for it to stop destroying hard drives. It made no sense at all and the assumption was that the cd drive was putting garbage onto the ATA bus and breaking things in some crazy kind of way. I always had weird nforce issues like that, from network to i/o errors, across three different desktops.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Dual CPU crew represent! What up, symmetric multiprocessing buddy?  I used a year of allowance and job earnings in high school to buy an A7M266-D fitted with one Athlon MP Palomino 1800+ (1.53 GHz). Got the second processor a month later for my birthday.  Later I watercooled them because I was a dumb teenager. But the experience cured me of ridiculous builds forever. It was a drat sight better than my T-Bird on that super-flaky A7A266 with both PC133 and DDR SDRAM support. Goes to show: always find reviews that cover stability, 'cause that thing hosed itself once every two weeks and I did two RMAs before giving up on it. Factory Factory fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Apr 10, 2011 |
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Oh, I forgot about the Athlon MP. I can't remember why I didn't go that route.
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Maggot Monster posted:I apparently had a different experience to you guys because every loving nvidia chipset board I had would cause endless and bizarre problems. The worst of the lot was after I put together some Shuttle/nforce3 computer that would destroy harddrives. I had great experiences using AMD-based nForce boards. Intel-based nForce boards on the other hand, holy poo poo. Never again will I do that.
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I'm hoping I can walk out with a 8 core beast for the same price as SB 2500K AND use both my nvidia cards on bulldozer.
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incoherent posted:I'm hoping I can walk out with a 8 core beast for the same price as SB 2500K AND use both my nvidia cards on bulldozer. Well, 2 pages back I posted: Not A Gay Name posted:Not exactly about Bulldozer itself, but still relevant. It seems that for the 990 chipsets AMD came to an agreement with Nvidia to get SLI support. So I'm thinking you'll be able to get an 8 core beast with your SLI.
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I'm waiting anxiously for some serious benchmarks against Intel. If there's a considerable price difference and a negligible performance difference, hell I might as well just build an AMD system this time around. As much as I like Intel reference boards and Intel's virtualization performance/features, I could settle for something like an AsRock motherboard and a ridiculous amount of core AMD processor.
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