DizzyEgg said:
Does anyone know a decent board for an Opteron 146 I am thinking of having?
Hi,
I was in the same position as you a few weeks ago, that is wanting a new 939 mobo to run an Opteron. After a few days reading and posting questions I got down to either a DFI board or an ASUS board.
I download both the manuals (.pdf) from the manufacturers web sites and had a good read.
After reading the manuals, and looking at the boards layouts I went for the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium. Been running it two weeks now and so far I am impressed!
All socket 939 Opterons use regular DDR memory, it is the (SMP) 940 Opterons that need special registered memory!
Just to say that it was a close thing for me choosing between the DFI and ASUS boards, from all I have read it seems the DFI board is able to overclock a bit better but I took a look at some screenshots of the DFI Memory-settings page in BIOS and it scared me!
The ASUS board is top-notch, has a silent heatpipe cooling system for the chipset and mosfets (which works well) 2 spaced-out PCI-express slots should u ever decide to play with SLI and a damn fine layout.
Oh and btw if u need a nice cooler to go with this board. . .