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paulmofyourhand
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« on: May 18, 2004, 03:52:10 AM »

'need to find best OCing mATX motherboard for Antec Aria
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paulmofyourhand
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2004, 03:52:10 AM »

my sn45g isnt enough for me, i need another rig, im in the process of selling my koolance barebones,

i can't seem to find a i865pe mATXsized motherboard,

i did find the MSI 865PEM2-ILS  , but i can't find it for sale anywhere, (i tried , newegg, froogle, pricewatch)...

can someone lead me the way to find one... i just want to overclock, is that too much to ask? hehe

the a64 looks alright,  and i don't want to wait for an nforce3 250gb (if they ever come out with it)

thanks in advance
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Tarkoon
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2004, 11:15:33 AM »

In my opinion the AOpen MX4SGI-4DL2 is the best mATX Board on the Market.
It has the 865G Chipset with PBE (like PAT), Intel GigaBit-LAN, SATA and everything else that you need.
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paulmofyourhand
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2004, 12:49:20 PM »

awesome! thanks a lot

who said n00bs are useless? haha jp
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paulmofyourhand
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2004, 09:51:05 PM »

http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/products/P4I875P.htm
check that out, its a i875 chipset with a removalbe bottom pci thingy

has anyone dealt with this board?

im hoping it will OC good , its 875  
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H2Ocooled
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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2004, 07:12:22 PM »

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Originally posted by: paulmofyourhand
http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/eng/products/P4I875P.htm

check that out, its a i875 chipset with a removalbe bottom pci thingy



has anyone dealt with this board?



im hoping it will OC good , its 875



Uh.... Thats a ATX size board....

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bat
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2004, 08:09:48 AM »

no way. it's both atx and uatx.
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CrimsonFury
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« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2004, 10:29:11 AM »

Woah, that is one funky mobo design. The end piece with 2 PCI slots is removeable to switch between ATX and mATX O_o
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eviltommy
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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2004, 03:40:20 AM »

asus makes a p4p800-vm i think thats a pretty good board.
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snoturtle
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2004, 05:09:59 PM »

Hello

If you are looking to overclock than don't bother with either the Aopen board or the Asus one

neither of them have overclocking features  

If you find one post up though as I could use one
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CoolioCat
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« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2004, 02:33:14 PM »

Two suggestions:

Gigabyte GA-8TRS300M.  Features onboard ATI 9100, lan, usb2, agp, pci's etc etc.  Currently runs as my brothers computer, using a Leadtek 6800GT.  Overclocks his Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8 all the way up to 3.1 (as that is the max FSB selectable... 230Mhz i think).  

There are basic memory timing settings and some other ajustments.  I seem to recall (and this is off the top of my head, so excuse mistakes), if i set the board to it's own O/C 'Fast' memory timings, it improved (tightened) the timings on the memory, but wouldn't reach past 225FSB.  I benchmarked at both automem timings at 235, and tight timings at 225, and the faster FSB setting with auto timings was faster across all benchmarks.  Remember, on all Gigabyte boards you have to hit CTRL + F1 in the bios to access the more detailed engineering settings.

He changed to the gigabyte board because his orginal Gigabyte FX5900XT didn't work in the following board...

The Aopen MX4SGI-L.  It too allows FSB ajustment up to around 235 i recall, which is the same as on the Gigabytes.  I think it must have been some sort of Intel recommended 'maximum' allowance for boards that size (lack of 4 phase power on micro's perhaps).  It features GIGABIT lan, but no on-board video as I recall.

So there you have it.  Prescott support in a MicroATXs with not unreasonable o/c settings.  I would recommend the Gigabyte in general, but i love the Aopen's gigabit lan and the fact it had to be imported from Japan with my Scythe coolers brings a happy memory to mind  

It should be noted that both boards have caused their fare share of 'issues' with certain hardware.  The Gigabyte board almost destroyed an XFX 5900XT (due to it's wild agp voltage spikes - doesn't seem to affect Gigabyte's own-brand 5900XT), but the Aopen loves the XFX.  But Aopen hates more 'specialised' types of RAM.  

If you are going with basic hardware, either board will do you fine.



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CoolioCat
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« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2004, 02:39:05 PM »

Btw, if you want to go AMD 64, there are numerous microATX boards that will overclock (albeit using CPU-Z) once inside windows.  I set up CPU-Z profiles on friends machines to allow them to click on either a MOON or a SUN icon (moon icon ran a CPU-Z profile set to default AMD64 clocks, sun icon ran a CPU-Z profile set to the max o/c i could get, which was about 2.3GHZ on the 3000+ Newcastles i was working on at the time).  That way they could run their cpu/agp/pci equip overclocked only when absolutely required.  It also saved on messing about overly in the bios.  Note:  This was primarily on BioStar mATX nforce 150's, but just about ANY microATX nforce 150 should create the same sorta performance).
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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2004, 08:45:22 PM »

Well, for comparison's sake, I upgraded my SN85G to an Antec Aria with the following:

Antec Aria SFF Case
AMD Athlon64 3400+ w/ Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu
MSI K8TM-ILSR w/ 1Gb Mushkin Blue Pack DDR (soon to be replaced)
BFG Tech Nvidia 6800GT OC 256Mb Video
36Gb WD Raptor 10K SATA
250Gb WD 7200RPM SATA
8x NEC 2500A DVD Burner flashed to support Dual Layer Media
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer

The only problem I ran into is with the Mushkin ram, but damn, it runs much cooler than the SN85G. The extra room allowed me to add a Raptor drive for the OS plus I have room to add another disk in the future. Man, I just wish I'd gone this route in the first place. Would have saved myself a lot of hassle. Whatever you decide, the SN45G to Aria upgrade will be a nice step up.

-E
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