Via - No - NF4

[DCB_AU]

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I was going to buy a ASUS AV8 MB but research revealed multiple minor faults eg. repeated booting for no reason, etc, but it still is a goog MB when the faults are ironed out.

A better purchase is a ASUS A8N5X MB with the NF4 chipset - faster, more and finer VCore adjustments, etc and at around $149 Aus, a good buy.

 

[dvdpiddy]

yeah via chipsets are pieces of crap they are not compatible with most ram and they do not fair good agianst n force chips(my kt880 dragon with via chip from soyo was being beaten by my asus a7n8x-x with nforce 2 in nearly every app and it could'nt run some of my ram)bottom line via sucks ass!

 

[o1die]

My ecs board with via k8t800pro chipset works fine. But if you want to use an agp card, check out the asrock dual sata II board with both agp and pci-e slots. It's less expensive than mine, and gives you the option of pci-e later.