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General => Users => Topic started by: jondecker76 on August 06, 2008, 02:52:16 pm

Title: Motherboard recomendations/advice
Post by: jondecker76 on August 06, 2008, 02:52:16 pm
I've decided to get a new motherboard, as my M2NPV-VM has been giving me fits with network drops, raid crashes, lockups, etc. I have spend a lot of time looking through the wiki and I also wanted to get experiences and opinions on some of the boards I'm looking at - as well as suggestions of other boards.

To keep things as cheap as possible, the folowing criteria is what I'm aiming for:
-As much as possible on-board both to keep cost down and keep expansion slots free (onboard video, audio,lan,etc)
-I would like 6 SATA ports. In the past, 4 ports has limited my on-board software RAID to about 2GB as Raid5. I would like to grow this, as well as have a hot spare.
-Many PCI slots. I would like more than 2 PCI slots - its just so limiting
-Socket AM2 so I can re-use my BE-2400 processor
-ATX and MicroATX form factors are fine - i have plenty of room

Here are the boards I am looking at:
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
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Abit A-N78HD
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Abit AN78GS
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Also - As I've never changed out a motherboard under LMCE - will it require a full reinstall, our should the hardware changes detect automatically?

Thanks for any help tips and advice
Title: Re: Motherboard recomendations/advice
Post by: jondecker76 on August 06, 2008, 11:48:04 pm
Couldn't wait any longer. Just ordered the Asus m2N-SLI Deluxe and an NVidia 7300 256MB 128 bit graphics card to replace my failing motherboard. I'll have to do a writeup when I install it this weekend.
Title: Re: Motherboard recomendations/advice
Post by: jondecker76 on August 16, 2008, 12:58:12 am
its here and very nicely built. I'm going to wait to switch it out though - I got the old one somewhat straightened out. I think next weekend I'll have a go at swapping out the boards.
Title: Re: Motherboard recomendations/advice
Post by: colinjones on August 17, 2008, 04:02:45 am
Are we saying then the m2n-sli delux is working well for Jon, but the m2n-sli plus is a different board and caused Dave lots of problems?