- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Yeah, you need to put that the MSI nForce 4 boards are tweaky. They don't run that well, and require a lot of BIOS tweaks before they're stable.
Really:
nForce 2: Slower, ageing, it's virtually dead.
nForce 3: Still hot with AGP, no dual channel RAM
nForce 4: Awesome with AGP, good with PCI-e, DC RAM
nForce 4 SLI: SLI cards, that's about it
VIA K8T88 was awesome for the s754. Ran cool, ran strong, OC'd well.
Recall that the above are for AMD systems, although SiS does both Intel/AMD, they are mediocre in my mind and not worth it.
nForce 4 Ultra motherboard recommendations:
Abit Fatality
Asus A8N Deluxe
DFI LANParty
Questionable:
MSI NEO2/4 Platinum
Gigabyte GA-K8N
Ones to avoid:
Chaintech VNF4 Ultra
Epox, ECS, anything from them
What's worth mentioning is the above are socket 939 boards. Some socket 939 boards support AGP, other PCI-e. All other previous sockets such as 754 and A support AGP.