Why thank you Ex! Yeah my MSI board (it's a bit older) has some pretty good overclock features on it, and they're stable boards overall, I like MSI...
Cool man. Yeah I know they got some bad rap and I'll admit I too was telling people to look to other brands but now I try to keep things in perspective and stay neutral until I've tried them you know. Same goes for Maxtor Drives.
Probably because AGP boards are coming down, PCI-e is out and people are buying those boards. AGP boards aren't too expensive anymore. ABIT Boards: There's this ABIT board as well, and it's under £50 ASUS Boards: There's this A8V and this A8V-Deluxe although this is a little more expensive and there's this A8V-MX as well, slightly cheaper. GIGABYTE Boards: There's this K8NSC
is that GIGABYTE motherboard better than the MSI motherboard and the other motherboards you linked to in the post above?
I'm not too sure, I just searched on there for Socket939 boards with AGP8x on then, they're the one's I came up with.
i like that GIGABYTE motherboard better becouse its blue and colourfull so may get that but i aint sure as i want the best motherboard i can get for about £60
Cool, the MSI is probably cheap because it's been around for quite some time now, it was one of the eariler 939 boards. Gigabyte is aways cheap yet they make very nice boards. I have only positive things to say about mine and Newegg costomers seem to agree for the most part with Gig's products. Looks like a smart choice to me
no upgrade going ot happen, might ditch this computer and buy a new computer for about £150 any decent coputers for £150 that can play all games on 600x800 res lowest settings ?
becouse its annoying me.. cant play games, cant overclock, what good is it. might get 3000+ amd 64, cheap motherboard and x300 graphics card.
Why not get a 3200+ Skt 939, Decent cooler and a good motherboard, I reckon you could get that for under £200
what are the differences between 3200+ and 3500+ is it just clock speed? could i easilly overclock a 3200+ to 3500+ or past 3500+ speeds with a stock cooler?
Yeah the 3200+ Venice Retail on OcUK is £117.44 inc VAT, that isn't bad, you could afford a new motherboard then, and may overclock a bit with the stock cooler, but a new cooler would be better for overclocking.
so, i am better off getting the OEM version and getting a cooler for £17, but what are the difference betwen the 3200+ and 3500+??
Clockspeeds, the 3500+ is @ 2.2GHz and the 3200+ is @ 2.0GHz they both have 512KB L2 Cache, are Venice Cores, Skt 939
is there any other difference at all than clock speed, or if i overclocked a 3200+ to 2.2ghz, would it be like a genuin propor 3500+ with the same performance as a 3500+?
I'm not sure but i can't see any other difference, maybe check out on www.amd.com to see if you can compare the 2 side by side
