good 3200 xp mother board

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sentra8777
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good 3200 xp mother board

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Iam thinking about upgradeing to a 3200 xp processors. Whats a good motherboard for it. That is good as my k7t266a pro2 ru that i use for my 2200 xp.
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Asus a7n8x, and also the abit nforce 2 board.
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It depends if you are a mad overclocker, because in that case, the Abit NF7-S 2.0 or the 8RDA+ will serve you better, BUT if you are just a stock user, or a mild overlocker, the A7N8X Deluxe is the board to get!
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Post by SLK »

Originally posted by Massamune
It depends if you are a mad overclocker, because in that case, the Abit NF7-S 2.0 or the 8RDA+ will serve you better, BUT if you are just a stock user, or a mild overlocker, the A7N8X Deluxe is the board to get!




Huh??!!


Your saying the A7N8X isn't a good overclocker?!!!? Did you ever look at the reviews? LOL
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No .. LOL im just saying that as far as i have seen, it cant go quite as high as the 8rda or nf7s ... (im talking like LNO2 cooling here)
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Post by njeddiek »

I own both boards and they both perform great. The NF7-S is better for heavy overclocking. Why? Here are a few reasons.
Abit bios offers up to 2.3 vcore. The Asus is only 1.85
Abit has 3 phase power. The Asus has 2.
Also the Asus ver 2 still suffers from the bios-save death problem, The Abit does not.

So far I have had my NF7-S up to 236 stable.
Rig 1: Abit NF7-S 2500+ 2530@230
Water Cooled System
"Cather" LR White Water #87/Eheim 1250
2x 256 corsair pc3500c2
Softmodded 9500NP
Rig 2:ASUS A7N8X XP2400+ 2387@217
Gforce 3 250/560 12950 3dmarks
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