OK so there is much talk about what motherboards are the best for the Athlon64 is, and all preform pretty close to the same, so i'm depending mostly on personal experience for what i'm choicing. I currently only have experience with one motherboard:
MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R
I did not have a great experience with this motherboard. It has the KT800 Chipset, and firstly it didn't come actively cooled, which isn't a really big deal, but it was still getting very hot (up to 37 degrees system temp) and the sink was burning to the touch. There are also BIOS problems when the motherboard turns on the screen says NO BIOS INSTALLED, while there is a bios installed (obviously as the computer works) and MSI hasn't come up with a fix for this annoying problem. Finally i am having a problem with the SATA RAID saying that nothing is installed, and it takes about 5 seconds to get by this screen. There is probably a way to turn this off in the BIOS, but i couldn't find it, and it probably shouldn't show this message anyway, as i never tried to run anything in SATA or RAID. The bottom line is this board has many little quirks in it, most which could probably be fixed with a BIOS fix, but as of right now i wouldn't recommend it.
Within the Next few days i'll be working with the Shuttle Athlon64 board and i'll add another post foth that motherboard.
Now i'll be asking anyone who has experience with any of the Athlon64 motherboards to make a post, so we can see how they all are for other [H]ers personally.
MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R
I did not have a great experience with this motherboard. It has the KT800 Chipset, and firstly it didn't come actively cooled, which isn't a really big deal, but it was still getting very hot (up to 37 degrees system temp) and the sink was burning to the touch. There are also BIOS problems when the motherboard turns on the screen says NO BIOS INSTALLED, while there is a bios installed (obviously as the computer works) and MSI hasn't come up with a fix for this annoying problem. Finally i am having a problem with the SATA RAID saying that nothing is installed, and it takes about 5 seconds to get by this screen. There is probably a way to turn this off in the BIOS, but i couldn't find it, and it probably shouldn't show this message anyway, as i never tried to run anything in SATA or RAID. The bottom line is this board has many little quirks in it, most which could probably be fixed with a BIOS fix, but as of right now i wouldn't recommend it.
Within the Next few days i'll be working with the Shuttle Athlon64 board and i'll add another post foth that motherboard.
Now i'll be asking anyone who has experience with any of the Athlon64 motherboards to make a post, so we can see how they all are for other [H]ers personally.