Whats a good gaming mobo compatible with ATI Radeon's?

unknown8 · July 7th, 2003, 01:00 PM

My board is getting old and i've heard it has problems with the radeon cards (i have a sapphire radeon 9200). I have also heard ASUS has some problems with Radeon cards. I was thinking about getting the "Asus A7V8X-X" mobo because ASUS is "top-of-the-line". Any problems with radeon cards on this board? Would emailing ASUS and asking help, or emailing ATI? Or would they just say "it has no problems, go buy one"? If you guys have any other good brand/model mobo's please post!

Thanks
-Unknown8

**tony_j15** · July 7th, 2003, 01:12 PM

It has no problems, go buy one! lol. You could also pick up a Epox 8rda. They are down to under 100, rock solid, and support your radeon card.

**jerrygarcia** · July 7th, 2003, 01:14 PM

You might also want to follow along with this thread....

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t71198.html

unknown8 · July 7th, 2003, 01:29 PM

That epox board interests me......but I havent heard much of the company. Do you have it installed right now? Or is it still being shipped? Your using a radeon card right?

**tony_j15** · July 7th, 2003, 01:32 PM

I personally dont have that board, have some friends that do and dont ever see problems with it.

unknown8 · July 7th, 2003, 01:38 PM

Were they using a Radeon card? Are they serious gamers?

**Bob The Great** · July 7th, 2003, 01:43 PM

I have all EPOX mobos and I'm building a new system with the EPOX 8RDA+ and a Radeon 9700. So far EPOX's boards have been top of the line feature packed, preformance pill poppin insane mobo's. I love there tech support to, very easy to contact and fairly knowlegble.

I too would suggest the 8RDA+. For $83 at newegg.com it has very nice preformance and great stability! I have an EPOX 8K9A2+ which is a KT-400 based board with SATA RAID, ATA/133 RAID and tons of sweet features like that but its just not as fast as the 8RDA+.

**jerrygarcia** · July 7th, 2003, 01:44 PM

Here is a link to an AMD Epox forum about the Radeon 9500 pro and the 8RDA+ board.

http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=207964

unknown8 · July 7th, 2003, 01:52 PM

uhoh, this link makes me worried... now ya did it jerrygarcia! i wont be able to sleep!!! just playin, thanks for this link, it will help me in my decision. bob the builder: i know your building a new sys with a radeon, but did your others have radeons too?

EDIT: btw, i have a SAPPHIRE Atlantis Radeon 9200 128 DDR. Its not ATI, its sapphire. Will this make a difference?

unknown8 · July 7th, 2003, 02:21 PM

Hah, I emailed Sapphire and look what they gave me:

"Matt,

So far the Radeon 9200 will work fine with all motherboard model and brand.

Tech"

This COULD be true, but I don't think so. I already bought the card so I dont think they are urging me thats its compatible with everything so I buy it.

unknown8 · July 7th, 2003, 07:34 PM

I think im going to get a A7V8x or A7N8x ASUS motherboard. Anybody who thinks im making a bad move, and something will be incompatible:

]PLEASE SPEAK UP!!!!!

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