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rubixcube

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5. July 2005 @ 01:37

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hey all

i was just wondering - i am building a new computer soon - specifically for gaming use. I will be using an amd 64 3500+, gig of dual channel ram and a nvidia 7800GTX. Im pondering over three different motherboards though - the ASUS A8N SLI DELUXE, MSI K8N SLI PLATINUM and ABIT AN8 SLI FATAL1TY. I really like the Ai Nos on the ASUS, the 24 bit sound on the MSI, and the addition of extra cooling and the uGuru on the FATAL1TY. But I am unsure - i was thinking the MSI just because its cheap and has onboard hd sound, but the ABIT looks awesome. And i was also wondering, what does resetting your CMOS do? Theres a button on the ABIT uGuru system that resets CMOS, do you lose BIOS settings and all of your hardware information, thus wiping your HDD?
Anyway I was just wondering for some opinions on the above mobos.
Thanks heaps
Rubixcube

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deadcat

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5. July 2005 @ 03:04

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"And i was also wondering, what does resetting your CMOS do? Theres a button on the ABIT uGuru system that resets CMOS, do you lose BIOS settings and all of your hardware information, thus wiping your HDD?"

It wipes all your user configurable settings to standard, same as removing the battery for a few minutes. You use this if you overclock, a little toooooooo much, and it refuses to boot. Reset the cmos and try again, but you dont loose your hard drive contents or anything like that

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5. July 2005 @ 11:41

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ok and i was gonna get the ASUS A8N-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard Which is cheaper then all 3 of those, and I cant see any major differences (a few less SATA slots is all I really see) So any reason to really spend an extra 40-60 bucks?

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rubixcube

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5. July 2005 @ 13:32

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I dont know really, theres apparently not much difference between the deluxe and non deluxe edition - I think its something to do with RAID controllers and SATA hdd ports. Oh yeah and the deluxe has 2 gigabit lan ports, but who needs that. Out of these three, the abit is the only one that supports the new X2 AMD so I might as well get that one, because then I can upgrade later on - what do you guys think?

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