Who is really going to take a risk with this board and tell us if it can match Neo. In the past that I know Chaintech was rather creepy company (nonexistent customer support) and only once they had a good overclocking board. Wanna bet on them?
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Who is really going to take a risk with this board and tell us if it can match Neo. In the past that I know Chaintech was rather creepy company (nonexistent customer support) and only once they had a good overclocking board. Wanna bet on them?
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Originally Posted by joe2004
ahhh its a throw away mb if its anything like the vnf3 250 i had ill buy one. i had no problems ocing my vnf3 250 at all and as far as the msi goes i never got over 270 1:1 using TCCD and i dont expect any diff out of this chaintec....
peace perc,
I ordered one and can compare to neo2 in a review :)
I trust chaintech. They might not be abit or dfi, but have been putting out decent boards. Kinda like Epox used to be.
Nice John! All I can say was that my vnf3250 was as good as my DFI. It didn't have the overclocking ram options like the dfi does, but my overclock was exactly the same. I had nothing but luck with the vnf3-250. I can't say much for my 2 gigabyte ultras and 2 neo2s though.
Agreed. It takes alot for someone who gets knocked down to come back. He's not that bad really to deserve all he gets sometimes in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shroomalistic
As for taking a risk and trying a new board...well how else are you going to know how it does. Chaintech seems like a motherboard maker who makes boards that are not bad, but not always really good. They make reliable boards from what I can see. Then they throw a good overclocking board at time to see how it goes
jjcom
The VNF3-250 is a solid board at a great price. I'm pretty sure this new board is going to be the same thing. The location of the power connector is pretty stupid though..
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Originally Posted by afireinside
x600xt is a major ripoff for that price. I understand your reasons for ignoring ebay, people sometimes pay too much, I see x700pros go for over 200 alot of the times. that 166 one looks nice but it might be 128mb, the ebay ones are 256mb. that 6600gt arent worth it with the x800np at $199. Isnt the 6600 $122? why do you say its trash? arent both the 6600nu and 6200u the same thing? but you get ps3 with the 6600nu however. I think both start at 300/550 clocks too.
"i think i may get one to try out too? hey what pci card is equal or better the the 9800pro the 6600gt or the ati flavor?"
I see u have 24k marks now, you might want the x800np for $199 then it will crush a 6600gt so badly
Theres still lots of NF4 ultra mobos so come out, the Abit AN8, MSI Neo4, and Gigabyte K8NXP-9. I bet any of those would be better than this chaintech. But if anyone has one, please review!
Where are you seeing an x800np for 199? link?Quote:
Originally Posted by Geforce4ti4200
good question...Quote:
Originally Posted by slayer899
@g-force4 ti4200
where is this x800np your talking about? id rather have that if its the same 200 youl pay for the 6600gt's. i wasnt planing on going ati this time around but mainly cause i didnt see anything from them that matched the 6600gt price wise...
thx perc,
How much Vcore and Vdimm can the Chaintech board give?
I believe,but i'm not sure, ATi has plans of making a x800np for somewhere around that price point...but i thought it was 250 bucks...I think I saw it on Toms Hardware.
Yeah, the Chaintech board is a good price point for those who want to go PCI-E and not want to spend a ton of money. I think Chaintech make a good choice if this board turns out to be fairly good.
jjcom
I'm still very curious about how much Vdimm the chaintech board gives.
We are all ordering this "blind." I can tell you on the 28th but no earlier. :)
Haha, so you all are basing your purchase on that the "Nforce3 250GB board OC'ed" well argument? What if this board OC'es like crap? Then you all pretty much wasted your money? Well, what do I know anyway :P, I wish you all the best of luck!
Chaintech probably did not developed a board that preformes worse than their old board. So it should OC well. Its just that chaintech haven't said how much Vdimm the board can give :(.
I'm thinking about shooting them an email, let me know what you guys want me to ask.
-Voltages, specfilcly the Vdimm
-Options on the BIOS
jjcom
I as well will have one on the 28th, and will be happy to answer any questions.
http://tech-report.com/reviews/2004q...l/index.x?pg=1
Radeon X800 R430 400 12 700 128MB VGA+DVI+TVo $199
Radeon X800 XL R430 400 16 980 256MB VGA+DVI+TVo $299
Turns out the Radeon X800 XL will debut for $299, or fully $100 less than NVIDIA's competing sixteen-pipe card, the GeForce 6800 GT. And that may not be the biggest news. The Radeon X800 (sans postfix) will now be hitting the market at :p: $199, :p: ready to go head to head with the GeForce 6600 GT. (Apparently, there is some truth in the rumors of the Radeon X700 XT's demise. The X700 XT isn't even available yet, and it's already been edged out at the $199 price point.)
cool looks nice, nice find GF.
Good move on ATi's part, but not for this thread, maybe one in the other section
Let us know how it goes. The board it self looks pretty nice, but then again so did my value board. Should be intersting
jjcom
I found a bunch of X800SE's but no X800NP's. The SE's are in the $300 range.
Please JJcom, mail them asap and get back to us :D.
Alright, sending the email now. Lets see what Chaintech will tell us
jjcom
Does anyone know if Chaintech is a reputable company, and usually makes good overclocking boards? The NF4 ulta board by Chaintech is only $120 and it looks like I'm ganna buy it, but I just wanted to know for sure before i bought one.
Looks like they are out of stock. They sold out pretty quick.
Only people who would like this mobo would be one's without case. The layout is just awful.