Hey I'm thinking about upgrading my computer and I got a friend who can get me wholesale prices on parts. What do you all think of this board? I plan on going with the AMD64 X2 most likely, I'm not sure which one yet.

http://usa.asus.com/

I currently have an Asus Mobo and it's been great to me so far. Its been quite stable for a while now, I'm running Slackware 11.0 on Linux 2.6.18. It's running smooth. Anyway, thanks for any help or insight.



Building computers are like building cars only they use smaller parts.

 

Well, your link doesn't work so I couldn't say! Although I completely disagree on the building computers, haha, I've been putting together rigs for nearly 8 years now and...man nothing is a difficult as diagnosing an electrical gremlin in a truck...PC is a breeze compared to that! That said I'm completely new to automotive stuff....maybe in 8 years I'll think different!

Regardless of make, some boards/board revisions are inherently unstable, others need to be tweaked, some can't be tweaked and suffer from incompatabilies, others run well out of the box but aren't too feature rich, etc.

Overall, I tend to stick with; ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI, in that order. I REALLY liked SOYO boards, but I believe they no longer make any.

 

go with a opteron 165 very nice cpu dual core easy to over clock to 3ghz on stock voltage and air cooling running at 38c-48c,that's if you get the right stepping though, so its somewhat a gamble, but people are still getting around 2.5ghz one other stepping.

 

the ASUS A8R-MVP is very stable with AMD dualcores. I am running a socket 939 4800+ in it with many peripherals and no problems. the overclocking on it is also very advanced. It is very reasonably priced at $89 @ tiger direct.
I changed to this from an MSI board after having many conflicts with IRQs no matter what I did. This is for an audio DAW (audio production)
there are newer socket 939 boards but I was recommended this one by many professionals due to the fact that for pro audio everything has to be REALLY stable (no pops/glitches are acceptable). They were right

 

i'm using the same board and i'm having audio problems,but other than that seems like a very stable board and its crossfire ready. planing on fixing the audio issues with an audigy 2.

 

I've built many comps with ASUS boards. I've found that there not the cheapest but I've never had a problem with them. In fact I had one ASUS board that survived a powersupply short.
Put in a new PSU and it's still running today.

 

My last computer was on a budget and I used a cheap ECS board. It lasted a while, but it wasn't the best in the world.

I upgraded earlier this year to an ASUS A8N-E board and an Athlon 64 X 2 3800+ and couldn't be happier. Rock solid system and it was the first time I put together a computer and I didn't have to send something back.

 

I am running an Asus M2N4-SLI board with an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and love it. VERY stable and fast. I recommend it for a budget SLI board.