Which Socket 754 motherboard?

[CaptJordus]

Re: Which Socket 754 motherboard?

I've typically used nothing but Asus in my custom machines, but im quickly losing faith.

I had a Asus K8V-SE Deluxe that just up and burned out one day. The BIOS just bit the big one out of the blue.

My old P4PE worked well while i used it, though.

I'm gaining trust back into ABIT somewhat, DFI makes good boards as well.

The LANparty seems to be the choice for gaming boards right now.

[Hephaistion]

Re: Which Socket 754 motherboard?

Hi all...

I'm got a really annoying problem with BF2 in that textures are not drawn correctly. Everything is in this thread...

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33527

... however, short version is - I have 6800GT, AMD64 3400+, 2GB RAM and have a problem with textures being dropped and scenery/buildings appearing instead as solid black shapes - as well as vehicles not being drawn at all (as per avatar)

Anyway, I've tried every setting under the sun, every possible driver, driver cleaner pro, BIOS updates - the works. And now I've turned to desperation and starting to replace hardware. First up is the motherboard... (graphics card is only 6 months old and too expensive to replace). I also suspect the mobo as BF2 doesn't hardly display any textures unless my BIOS AGP Apeture Size is max'd at 512MB, however everything I read points to this setting needing to be no more than 128MB with a 256MB graphics card.

So... my quiestion is this (eventually) - what would people consider the best Socket 754 motherboard. My list requirements being:-

No onboard VGA
No onboard sound (if possible)
3x DIMM sockets
10/100/1000 ethernet
AGP
decent support with driver software and BIOS updates


Thanks alot,
b6x

I would start by saying NONE, 754 is dead. However do not buy the Asus K8n-E (POS)
Try anything by Abit, they are GTG.