Re: Finally Decided on a System Upgrade

[Delta_]

You need to ask the person you are buying from if they have any motherboards with the "VIA K8T800 chipset".  DDR400 Athlon64 motherboards use that chipset, also that is a cost effective, reliable and very good performance chipset.

[Iroquois]

[quote]You need to ask the person you are buying from if they have any motherboards with the "VIA K8T800 chipset".

[Delta_]

My personnel preference is the Gigabyte motherboard, i am using one now, it is very reliable and has a jumperless design, where you control everything from the bios.  It has also given me very good performance.

[Iroquois]

[quote]My personnel preference is the Gigabyte motherboard, i am using one now, it is very reliable and has a jumperless design, where you control everything from the bios.

[congo]

How do I even know if you guys are telling the truth?

Hi Orenda,

Others and myself here in the hardware forums spend a lot, a real lot - of our free time trying to help people with their particular problems.

In my case, I'm unable to work for health reasons and this is one way I can offer something back to the community, who ultimately support me.

I typically spend around four hours a day, sometimes much more, advising people in forums about their problems. Much of this time is spent researching in detail the particular hardware in question. The research, combined with personal experience is what I base my advice on.

You, of course, have no guarantee the advice is correct, so you either have to trust us, (You are asking in the first place!) or go out and spend the time researching the problem yourself.

I often advise people to research their problem themselves. Learning the in's and out's of PC hardware is a vast learning curve, and can't be done in theory alone, hands on experience is essential. I find this process interesting and rewarding. This is one of the reasons why I often suggest that people build or upgrade their own PC's.

I realise many people don't have the time or inclination to do that, so, on my own time and effort, I endeavour to provide what limited knowledge I have to the community at large.

I also realise and take seriously the fact that I am basically playing with other peoples time and money.

At times I may appear flippant, many times I try to add humour to a basically nerdy subject. If I appear rude, it's typically out of frustration of not being able to get my message across.

I offer my advice in these forums to the best of my abilty, whether right or wrong, but I assure you I do my best and I will never intentionally mislead anybody. Consider that my disclaimer if you will.

Good luck with your upgrade.

congo

[Iroquois]

Hi Orenda,

Others and myself here in the hardware forums spend a lot, a real lot - of our free time trying to help people with their particular problems.

In my case, I'm unable to work for health reasons and this is one way I can offer something back to the community, who ultimately support me.

I typically spend around four hours a day, sometimes much more, advising people in forums about their problems. Much of this time is spent researching in detail the particular hardware in question. The research, combined with personal experience is what I base my advice on.

You, of course, have no guarantee the advice is correct, so you either have to trust us, (You are asking in the first place!) or go out and spend the time researching the problem yourself.

I often advise people to research their problem themselves. Learning the in's and out's of PC hardware is a vast learning curve, and can't be done in theory alone, hands on experience is essential. I find this process interesting and rewarding. This is one of the reasons why I often suggest that people build or upgrade their own PC's.

I realise many people don't have the time or inclination to do that, so, on my own time and effort, I endeavour to provide what limited knowledge I have to the community at large.

I also realise and take seriously the fact that I am basically playing with other peoples time and money.

At times I may appear flippant, many times I try to add humour to a basically nerdy subject. If I appear rude, it's typically out of frustration of not being able to get my message across.

I offer my advice in these forums to the best of my abilty, whether right or wrong, but I assure you I do my best and I will never intentionally mislead anybody. Consider that my disclaimer if you will.

Good luck with your upgrade.

congo

I'm sorry I snapped at you Congo but it's easy to get frustrated with all of the conflicting information.

[congo]

No problem, That's what we're here for, to share information! (conflicting or otherwise )

[Iroquois]

I'm going for the Gigabyte K8VT800 Pro for $169.99CND. It supports the RAM I have now with room to grow to DDR400 (up to 3gb) in the future. Has dual bios, firewire, and RAID support along with USB 2.0 and ethernet ports. Has everything I need and them some and the price is on par with other Socket 754 mobos.