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Athlon 64 Motherboard Triple Threat Round-Up

Posted by timothy on from the only-8-pages-to-click-through dept.

SpinnerBait writes "Soon after AMD released the Athlon 64 to the public, eager motherboard manufacturers unveiled their latest motherboards for AMD's new baby. Some are offering basic packages that boast features and performance, yet forgo the extras found in premium bundles. Other manufacturers are offering snazzy new packages with all kinds of extras and unique features. The only thing left to do is decide which one is for you. HotHardware has an article posted up, that showcases and benchmarks three top Athlon 64 motherboards, from Asus, MSI and Shuttle. These boards are looking more refined every day."

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  1. Silk Purse by ratfynk · · Score: 0, Troll
    "all bench marks will be run with the 32 bit version of Windows XP, because the 64 bit version has not been released to the public yet"

    I think this might be another case of turning a silk purse into a sows ear!

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    OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
  2. Wait for Intel's version by epidemic99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have never had good luck with AMD products. I know some people really like them, but I rather wait for Intel to put out their version of the 64 bit processor. There isn't any big rush anyways, since there really isn't any software that can take advantage of the 64 bit yet.

  3. Slashdot material? by Andypoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is just a boring hardware review, and nothing particularly special.

    It only reviews 3 Athlon 64 boards, and there's nothing particularly promising there. What happened to Gigabyte's full-featured board offerings? Or Soltek's budget board? Or Albatron's motherboard? Or any of the other motherboard manufacturers?

    I certainly don't consider these the top #3 boards available. More the "top #3 we were able to get our hands on for a review".

    Slashdot isn't a crappy hardware review site. This review contains nothing special or particularly interesting.

    I could imagine the first wiz-bang Athlon 64 samples being reviewed, but this article is just boring, and outdated, to be called Slashdot material imo.

    Umm, /rant now :)

    Andypoo.

  4. Re:too bad....I smell cpu smoke! by MoFoQ · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't overclock. Just don't have the budget to go refrigeration. ^_^

    One of the last athlons (XP chip) that died on me, also took the board with it.

    And this isn't an isolated issue. I've seen SO many people have issues with AMD's especially with heat. (hell, both the super 7 based K6-x's and the Slot A Athlons are better in terms of reliability) Even people who have their system built professionally or a store bought brand (HP, Dell, Gateway, etc.) have had heat issues.

    BTW, my K6-3 computer is still running (it's also slightly underclocked), 24/7 and I love it (the board's got 2MB of L3 cache). Now that's something that Intel never did. See, it's not that AMD's technical stuff is bad and neither is Intel, it's just the bureacracy that makes things bad.