Opinions on Biostar NF325-A7

LaTech · Posted: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:34:26 Post Subject: Opinions on Biostar NF325-A7

My baord died and I need a replacement...

Anyone know anything about this board: Biostar NF325-A7

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138247

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:18:01 Post Subject:

I may have had that one, or one very similar, for a while. My main board died, and while I waited for an RMA from Newegg, that was the only one available locally. It was ok, but somewhat bland in the overclock / extra features category.

But, my SOcket 754 for experiment only lasted about 3 months before I got tired of it... Laughing

LaTech · Posted: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:25:34 Post Subject:

hehe, I understand.

I'm now thinking I'll look to the 939 board (as I just learned that 754 is going no where...).

Perhaps this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128286

With this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103537

and this: http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/shop/product.php?productid=16160&cat=251&page=1

For around the same as I would have spent for "out dated" technology (this said as I think about my Soltek board with a Barton 2500 in it at home)

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

I have a DFI sli-dr and I love it. The board has SLi, 8 sata ports, raid5 capability, and more bios options than I can count. You can get a refurb for $107 from newegg too or you can check www.pricewatch.com for another vendor with a lower price (chiefwatch at the moment, and I dealt with them before and had a good experience Smile

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I would definately go with the nF4 chipset and get the pci-express and sli architechture though, no matter what board you get.

LaTech · Posted: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:34:10 Post Subject:

The problem is that I preently have a 5900XT and it works perfectly fine for what I need (I haven't been playing as many of the new games and such), so I don't know that I want to invest several hundred on a new card that isn't going to give me that much of a performance increase...

Thats my logic behind the board with the AGP slot...if it's wrong, please let me know.

LaTech · Posted: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:59:43 Post Subject:

Ok, I need to order this today as I'm without computer at home (except for my girlfriend's computer)...

For cooling:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835118118

this chip: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103537

On this board: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813128286

Reasoning: I have a 5900 that I want to keep that is AGP and some DDR RAM that I want to keep as well. This also gives SATA for my HD.

Thoughts?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:28:13 Post Subject:

Got two links to the cooler, and none to the chip. That is probably a good cooler, but I have no experience with it. Zalman's are good, but not always the highest power... I prefer things that may be too strong that I can throttle down.

Also... have a look at ZipZoomFly.com - they have the same stuff, for about the same price (or less), but they offer two day shipping for free, saving you time and more money.

Link to the board on pricegrabber... cool to see a new store and new sponsor up on that list with low prices too... www.clubit.com (reviews coming soon)!

LaTech · Posted: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:49:36 Post Subject:

Fixed the link for the chip. I've presently got the Jet7 by coolermaster (I think). It's got the controller so you can control the speed (and the sound). I want something that cools real well that will allow me to overclock a little.

LaTech · Posted: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:33:10 Post Subject:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835106061

Got that HS instead. Placed order.

LaTech · Posted: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:22:07 Post Subject:

I am VERY pleased to announce that I got my parts in this evening...switched out the motherboard, cpu and heatsink, hit the power button, and after 10 minutes of installing drivers, am up and running again!!! I'll take some pics of this MAMMOTH heatsink I got...it's freakin huge...once I get everything set again.