Building a new TOY for the wife - United Bimmer Community

**TerryY** · 11-13-2005, 12:10 PM

Going to build this inside her present big tower case

MS WINDOWS XP PRO X64 % - OEM

MB|MSI K8N NEO4 PLATINUM NF4ULTRA R -

G.SKILL 2X1G F1-3200PHU2-2GBZX R -

CPU FAN | ZALMAN CNPS 9500 LED -

CPU AMD 64 |4200+ ATHLON X2 939P RT

MSI | 7800 PCI-E NX7800GTX-VT2D256E

CPU THERMPASTE|ARCTIC SILVER5 3.5G% - OEM

And this so I can set up a fast network for an internal server for her study databases

GAME ROUTER DLINK|DGL-4100 -

I don't think that the servers she plays online games on will catch up for a while

OH and they just hooked up FIOS Friday 15,000 down

1700 up

**defkon99** · 11-13-2005, 12:15 PM

15k down what! WTF!

**xsperf** · 11-13-2005, 12:31 PM

if you didnt already get it, see if you can find another brand, other than MSI, thier customer support is horrible, one time i ordered a mobo from them that didnt support my CPU, even thought it said it did, i called them for like two weeks straight and no one knew the answer until the last time the guy just said its incompatable.. for the cheap brands, FIC i think is the best, then there are Asus(also AS Rock America is generic form of Asus, it is asus though) and there is Abit, gigabyte..

**TerryY** · 11-13-2005, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by defkon99@netscape.net

15k down what! WTF!

Actually 14,900kbps at Speakeasy San Francisco

I have had extremely good luck on the last 3 MSI motherboards I have purchased. Unless this one is a total turd (Hot Hardware's Editors choice too so it shouldn't be) I will continue to buy them as my first choice.

The worst that I have had were FIC but that was in the early days of the Via chip sets. Even had one that would only run for 10 minutes without random crashes as a Tower but would run forever as a Desktop.

**defkon99** · 11-13-2005, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by xsperf

if you didnt already get it, see if you can find another brand, other than MSI, thier customer support is horrible, one time i ordered a mobo from them that didnt support my CPU, even thought it said it did, i called them for like two weeks straight and no one knew the answer until the last time the guy just said its incompatable.. for the cheap brands, FIC i think is the best, then there are Asus(also AS Rock America is generic form of Asus, it is asus though) and there is Abit, gigabyte..

wELL iVE BEEN A biG msi FAN EVERY pc I BUILD IS bASED ON THAT MAKE,. they make good enough products, to last a very long time. ive had my KT7 DELTA BOARD FOR OVER 4 YEARS NOW. its been as good as it was when i bought it. As for the tech support ive never had to call um since i havent had any problems.

Another good make out there i would go with is Abit they have been making better boards.

just my 2 cents.