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More info?)
Thanks Ruel, I am taking your advice and building my own, you also
said just come here and ask, so I will be in here asking dumb
questions for the next few weeks. I did not miss the onboard
soundblaster for the MSI, I intend using an external extigy which I
have connected to my notebook. I missed the bit about the length of
the 7800's but I am going with a single 6800 ultra on this one for the
first year. As soon as I can settle on memory I will post a list of
components I have decided on to see if I have made any potentially
fatal errors
Thanks...SS
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:56:34 -0400, "Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com>
wrote:
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><sstovall3@aol.com> wrote in message
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>>i have narrowed my motherboard selections to:
>> ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM and the MSI K8N NEO4 PLATINUM/SLI.
>> any experiences that would be helpful with my final selection would
>> be appreciated.
>
>I have experience with both Asus and MSI motherboards. They're both great.
>Asus is top dog in quality, but MSI boards are usually more feature-laden
>for the money, with that particular board having onboard Creative
>Soundblaster Live! 24bit 7.1 channel sound. Though not as good as a separate
>card, it's certainly a plus compared to Realtek and CMedia offerings you
>usually get.
>
>One thing to consider is that MSI's current SLI boards have a problem with
>the new 7800 series nVidia graphics cards because they are longer than the
>previous models. Apparently, there are some capacitors in the way of using
>the new cards. This could be a decision maker/breaker for you.
>