motherboard support?

race08 · 12-17-2005, 01:15 PM

Hi,

I am thinking of buying a amd athlon 64 x2 2.4Ghz 4800+ dual core cpu. And I want to run nvidias sli video card technology. Which ASUS board would someone best recommend that would support these specs?

race08 · 12-17-2005, 07:26 PM

Also is there a motherboard that will support DDR2 technology with the previous mentioned specs?

**please** · 12-18-2005, 10:43 AM

@ race08
ASUS offers the A8N-SLI series, tho looks like the 'Premium' doesn't support X2 dual cores..strange

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AMD CPU's have their memory controllers on-die(inside the CPU) and do not support DDR2 RAM at this time.

It has nothing to do with the mobo or chipset.

If you are building a gaming machine with SLI, make sure you have a powerful quality PSU. I would suggest 550Watts or more. Some reasonably priced quality names are Antec and Enermax. I would also suggest GB RAM to compliment your SLI and dual-core. Be aware that games that are optimized for dual-core tech are non-existant at this point, so your systems weak link may be the CPU. The San Diego core will outperform your dual core in most cases where games are concerned.

12-17-2005, 01:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
race08 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 18 OS: xp	motherboard support? Hi, I am thinking of buying a amd athlon 64 x2 2.4Ghz 4800+ dual core cpu. And I want to run nvidias sli video card technology. Which ASUS board would someone best recommend that would support these specs?

12-18-2005, 10:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
please Tech Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,185 OS: WinXP SP2	@ race08 ASUS offers the A8N-SLI series, tho looks like the 'Premium' doesn't support X2 dual cores..strange . AMD CPU's have their memory controllers on-die(inside the CPU) and do not support DDR2 RAM at this time. It has nothing to do with the mobo or chipset. If you are building a gaming machine with SLI, make sure you have a powerful quality PSU. I would suggest 550Watts or more. Some reasonably priced quality names are Antec and Enermax. I would also suggest GB RAM to compliment your SLI and dual-core. Be aware that games that are optimized for dual-core tech are non-existant at this point, so your systems weak link may be the CPU. The San Diego core will outperform your dual core in most cases where games are concerned. __________________ P4P800E-D:~:P4 3.0C@3.75GHz:~:Zal7000AlCu:~:OCZ4001024ELDCPER2-K@250MHz 2.5-3-3-7 WinXP SP2>2X160GB Samsung SATA ICH5R RAID1:~:2x80GB Samsung SATA Promise RAID0 ATI A-I-W X800XT~SB Audigy2 ZS~2X BenQ1620~Antec SLK3700AMB~Antec SmartPower2.0 500W

12-17-2005, 07:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
race08 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 18 OS: xp	Also is there a motherboard that will support DDR2 technology with the previous mentioned specs?