939 Mobo for serious Opty Overclock, SLI not NEEDED but migh

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But i might get a sli board just cause it might OC better. WOuld love to have all the toys, at least 1 GbE adapter and firewire would be nice but not required. Probably NF4 varient. Not objecting to the ones with on board video. If I get a 7800 card then I can run 2-3 monitors using the on board at the same time. Full ATX I guess is fine unless there is a great OCer out there that is mATX.

Whats good? I kinow the DFI expert is the meanest but is there anything close? Not such a huge fan of DFI at times but I might. What bout Asus, anything close?

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Asus A8N-SLI Premium nForce4 SLI Audio/GB-LAN/IEEE-1394/USB/PCI-E/SATA3G/DDR/ATX 64 939

That one dont sound bad, found on monarch. Theres the cheaper versions of it too, the plain and delux along with the non sli one. I dont need sli but id love to have everything else... is the OC optoins on these all the same?

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110846&Category_Code=AMD939 whats the difference in that and this one http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110243&Category_Code=AMD939

and then there is the mATX ones that have VM in their names... man so many choices

 

[RichPLS]

Lian Li PC-60plus Black Aluminum Case (w/TR-3B Black Thermometer/Fan Controller 3.5” bay)
Opteron 175 (2x 2.2 GHz, 2MB cache, Socket 939, .09 micron, E6 stepping, OSA175DAA6CD)
ThermalTake BigWaterSE 12cm liquid cooling system complete kit
Asus A8R-MVP Motherboard (ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire, socket 939, SATA2)
HiS X1800XT Graphics Card (625 MHz/700 MHz OC core/1500 Mhz/1600 MHz OC mem, Dual DL-DVI VIVO 512 MB PCIe)
2x 512MB Corsair Micro Xpert DDR RAM (2-2-2-6-2T (spd 2-2-2-5-1T) TwinXP 1024-3200XL)
2x 74gig Western Digital Raptor Hard Drives RAID-0 (WD740GD RAID0 150gig Boot Drive)
2x 250gig Western Digital Caviar SE16 Hard Drives (WD2500KS storage and data)
Plextor 716AL Black 16x DVD/CD Burner (IDE slot loading type)
Antec TP-II 550 Power Supply (550 Watt ATX12V v2.0 PSU)
Dell 2405FPW 24-inch LCD Monitor (UltraSharp Wide Aspect Flat Panel Display)

The fastest stable overclock I can reach is 2680; I seem to hit a brick wall at around 2700 MHz.
Whether I use 11x250 or 10x270 or even 10.5x260 it fails to boot, but if I back it down 5MHz things work pretty good, and it makes no difference at settings CAS 2.5 or 3, using 3, 3, 8, 3, or with just 2 stick or RAM; either way, around 2680 is my overclock limit. But this system is quick and stable; I keep it normally at 2420 MHz (11x220 at 2, 2, 6, 2) 2.8 volts for now. I am pretty sure the overclock limit is the processor and not the memory, but would have liked to see top out well better than a 20% stable overclock with this system, considering the components.
It gets 4,578 marks in 3DMark06 and 9,652 marks in 3DMark05.
Overall, I recommend this system to anyone wanting a solid system for gaming, video, or design work.

 

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So DFI expert is gonna be it?

Any other thoughts?

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you can get the expert but its too much you can save if you dont get sli. look towards a asus a8n5x looks like a pretty decent board

 

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ive just heard alot of bad stuff bout ASus lately...thtas my hiccup. Im most into the overclockability of the DFI. I dont need SLI, no but the other features are needed. Hell Id use the Asus ASRock boards if it'd work fine...its just its gotta get me as many Mhz out of my opty...

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