<dave_bonnell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Thank you for your reply (more below).

> If you are concerned about PCI-E, why not get an Athlon64 mobo that
> supports it? (Asus A8N-E, etc.)

I am not so much concerned about PCI-E, as I am about the AMD motherboards
coming out with that archetecture. Basically, I have not been able to find
a single, stable PCI-E board for the AMD! There are severe issues with the
Asus A8N-E; USB 2.0 reportedly does not work properly; and it has an
extremely loud northbridge fan. Same for the A8V-E: very noisy, and poor
quality northbridge fan; and the VIA KT890 has several outstanding issues
as well. I also looked at the MSI K8N Neo4. But it has memory issues
(cannot properly run DDR400 at 400Mhz).

In short, I can, for the life of me, not find a good PCI-E board for AMD
(non SLI).

> Is cost an issue? If so, I'd drop down from the 4000+ to something
> along the lines of a 3400. I don't think the performance difference
> will be a major issue....and you can use the extra $$ to get the N7800.

I would, instantly, if I found a reliable PCI-E board for AMD.

> Of course, if cost isn't an issue, why not go SLI and grab two N7800's
> ??!?

Because that is twice the noise. :)

I *did* look at the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium; in fact, it was my first choice.
But there are so increbly much issues with this board, then I do not even
know where to begin. PATA bugs causes corruption of hard disks; SATA bugs
causing you to lose your array; a whole string of infamous boot-errors
(system will start, but not enter post; or just beep slowly). And,
overall, very buggy BIOS.

That is why, for my second option, I chose the A8V DeLuxe, as there are
literally *no* known issues with that board.

Thanks,

- Mark