Socket 754 Roundup, Part 3: Asus, Soltek & DFI

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• Term - Monday, September 27, 2004 - link

  Uhm.. the new ASUS bios fix the OC stability problem with SATA right?

• Wesley Fink - Saturday, September 18, 2004 - link

  #34 - The Asus K8N-E manual does state 3MB of memory as the maximum capacity. The specifications have been corrected in the review.

• LocutusX - Thursday, September 16, 2004 - link

  Daxzus,
  
  For more accurate "real-world advice" concerning the K8N-E, please see the unofficial thread for that mobo at the Anandtech forums. There are people there who have been using it extensively for the last 2 months, who have tried a wide variety of components/overclocking on it.
  

• justly - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  #27 – Wesley
  Thank you for the explanation about your testing methodology, now I feel more comfortable knowing that you do check for these minor deviations when comparing new products against older ones.
  
  #28 – Wesley (again)
  I agree about it being a shame that SiS seems to always get dumped on by big name motherboard manufactures and that even when a good product hits the street it seems to get forgotten about or overlooked. The thing is I still think you are just as guilty as many others reviewers. If you don’t understand what I mean then just look at #32 (by PrinceGaz) since I would have said the EXACT same thing.
  This might be a little arrogant of me, but would it really hurt to mention their product when talking about a section of the market that they perform so well in (non-overclockers).
  

• Daxzus - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  also...I was wondering if anyone has a good powersupply and case that might work good for me for a good price.

• Daxzus - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  I read every thing that was in the review about the 3 diffrent motherboards and I have some questions.
  
  In the review it was said that the Asus K8N-E deluxe maxed out at 2GB of memory, but at newegg and some all the other places I can buy it from-and even Asus homepage, say that the Asus K8N-E deluxe has a max of 3GB of memory. What this in error in the reveiw or am I looking at buying the wrong board?
  
  Also I was thinking about buying the Asus K8N-E deluxe and I have a college budget and I was wanting to get some recomendation as to some really good cheap memory to get for it. Also maybe some good budget video cards. I saw that in the review that ATI 9800 was used...wouldn't a Nvidia video card work better considering the chip set?
  
  but all in all thank for the info that you put into the reviews Fink!
  
  Dax

• AtaStrumf - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  I just hope that your upcoming OC article will at least mention sempron 3100+, since you (AT)did promise to OC it, but untill now you have not done so.

• PrinceGaz - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  #28 Wesley Fink-
  
  From the aricle- "If overclocking is not particularly important to you, then one of the first generation boards based on the VIA chipset might also meet your needs at a lower price."
  
  And your reply- "There is actually another complaint about Sis. None of the Sis A64 cipsets I have tested, including the 939 Reference Board, have a working PCI/AGP lock."
  
  If overclocking is not particularly important to someone, the lack of a PCI/AGP lock wouldn't matter.

• jwix - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  The article mentions overclocking difficulties with SATA drives with the DFI board being the exception. I wonder....if running 2 drives in a raid 1 config, would it make it any more difficult to overclock on the DFI?

• LocutusX - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - link

  "The problem is ports 1 and 2 on nVidia are coupled with the PHY Gigabit LAN and generally will not overclock very well."
  
  Source?