K8T890 or NF4 ??

[Holy Smoke]

I also have an AX8 board, and if it weren't for the dual-core issue, it'd be the best motherboard I've ever had. It has not once crashed on me.

And that includes Intel boards.

 

[IamTHEsnake]

Originally posted by: anim8
/sorry for bump

What about a Prescott 6xx system. It should be okay right? I always heard that AMD have a high failrate, and is very unreliable, otherwise Intel should be very reliable. I dont know how true it is anymore.

When did you hear that? These days the tide has turned and AMD athlon 64 cpu's absolutely slaughter the pentium 4. The highest end P4 is equal to about an upper mainstream Athlon 64. Don't be fooled by TV commercials or ads. The athlon 64 provides amazign gamign performance that can not be topped by the P4 as it stands today and is generally faster in eveyrthing else, not to mention cheaper.

Like Macro2 said these posts on these forums about trouble with somethign usually amount to the fact that the person is overclocking their system or running it out-of-spec. motherborads and CPUs are all rigorously tested by the manufacturer to ensure that the product works flawlessly at specified speeds.

Don't be afraid to use AMD, it will earn your trust as it has many others'.


Bottom line = Athlon 64 is FASTER.

 

[mauri]

I've used both VIA K8T890 and nForce4 (SLI) based motherboards. If they both work properly, you propably won't notice the difference. I think the most important thing with motherboards is the stability.

My upgrade 4 months ago was ASUS A8V-E Deluxe (VIA K8T890), and I had very hard time to get it work properly: I had problems with system stability, with my SATA drives and with my IDE-optical drives. It might be more because of A8V-E (No T1 memory timings and stability was horrible) and its bad design, but after fighting with it for 3 weeks I got replaced with ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. My system works solidly now (has been for over 3 months), no problems whatsoever.

I think other manufacturers K8T890 boards work better (like Abit AX8), I've heard good things about them, but the ASUS K8T890-based board left me with a very bad memory/feeling about VIA-chipsets.

I would recommend getting the nForce4 -based motherboard. For me it has been more solid and although it has lot of bells of whistles It's still the better chipset at the moment. in my opinion.

 

[QueBert]

NF4 = Nforce drivers = 20+ megs *30 I think?*
VIA 4in1 = less then 3 megs

don't let people kid you, Nvidia has it's share of driver issues. I refuse to update my Nforce drivers unless I read tons of positive feedback from others.
I've never had an issue with a VIA chipset, all the way back to my Cyrix 166+
I have an NF3 now, but would get another VIA board in a second.