Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP

[chibi_man]

M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP


I stumbled across a review of this board done by Hardware Secrets.

This board is looking pretty exciting for an AM2 board. especially with all the options it has. For the price I really can't complain either. found her for $235 at infonec.com and pccanada.com just got them in to.

I'm putting some serious thought in getting her with a pair of HD 3870's. Perhaps with an Opteron 1218. Could go with a phenom, however there still pricey for my taste right now and seeing how AMD had some troubles with them I think it be better to wait and see with them.

So what be it... HOT or Not so HOT

[MpG]

If you're in the market for an AMD system, looks pretty nice. The layout is good, although a pair of 3870's will cost you all your PCI slots. Looks like it even supports Phenom! And we certainly can't take that for granted right now...

[chibi_man]

Well you gotta give to get, thats the reality of it. I just have a personal preference towards AMD. Supporting a Phenom is indeed a nice feature. Still debating on a processor and ram. Perhaps the Opteron would be nice for now. Phenom can wait. Maybe I could try the OCZ Reaper series Crossfire Ram. who knows...

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by chibi_man

Well you gotta give to get, thats the reality of it. I just have a personal preference towards AMD. Supporting a Phenom is indeed a nice feature. Still debating on a processor and ram. Perhaps the Opteron would be nice for now. Phenom can wait. Maybe I could try the OCZ Reaper series Crossfire Ram. who knows...

Any particular reason why you'd go for an opteron rather than one of the unlocked black box CPUs?

[chibi_man]

To be honest... NO

Another one of those preference things. Opterons are much more tough looking to me and there track record is pretty nice to. On a side note to that, the opteron is a great price. 2.6ghz Opteron 1218 for $150... How can I complain about that.

Mind you I will be honest and say I know little about the unlocked black box CPU's... From what I have seen there pretty expensive. I can be way off with that, just need someone to prove me wrong.

[chibi_man]

Ok, seems as if I proved myself wrong... Found one for about the same price... Ok in that thought, Which is the best choice.

[MpG]

Here's a THG review of the Black edition proc, doesn't look too shabby at all.

EDIT: For that matter, we've got a review right here too.

[EddieTO]

The 5000+ Black is amazing value. I got mine for $130 (should be similarly priced @ infonec/cc/td). Clocks to 3.0 without effort. And my maximum stable overclock was 3.42ghz on my Asus M2N-E which has a ginormous vdroop and limited ram voltages. For some reason my CPU didn't want to go any further. But hey 2.6ghz > 3.42ghz isnt too shabby :)

I was considering going the AMD route again when I upgraded, but figured out I would only be spending a little bit more for the Q6600 and ended up splurging on a Maximus Formula lol. The P5K series is very affordable and great performers. Any reason you're looking into building an AMD system? My sig shows my old system (used as an HTPC now) and the rig i upgraded to. Very happy with the performance increase (video editting/encoding is soooo much faster).

[chibi_man]

I just picked up the board an Hour ago.. real excited now. I am going to do some more research on some processors.

[Dragon64]

I have had this board for a little over a week and am quite happy with it

I have come across a couple of issues, it would not boot up with my Silverstone Strider 750 watt power supply. It is running on a FSP Everest 900.

Once running the CPU was at 50% constantly, finally found that the on-board wi-fi card was causing excessive Hardware Interrupts, disabling it in windows solved that.

Someone mentioned something about only being able to run two cards, you can run three dual slot video cards on this board.

Cheers.
Rob.