Upgrading motherboard. Should I avoid NFORCE3?

[Samduhman]

Currently running my Leadtek 6800nu on an NFORCE2. Was looking at buying the DFI Lanparty Nforce 3 250gb, socket 754 mb and processor. After scanning the thread at top of this board about the video freezing problem and the issue seems to be related to Nforce 3 motherboards should I get something else instead?

[racingx]

Well I am using a MSI K8T Neo Fisr2 socket 754 (Via K8T800) and am very happy with it. No stutters here and that is with AGP Fastwrites enabled.

[saturnotaku]

I would avoid the nForce3 board you mentioned simply because it's socket 754. If you want to upgrade to an Athlon 64, you would be better served going with a socket 939 system. I had no problems with my 6800 cards in my old K8N Neo2 Platinum, and my current PCI-Express 6600 GT is running well in my nForce4 SLI board.

[1337_Like_ThaT]

Yes, like Saturn states above, you should probably avoid that DFI board you are interested in simply for it being S.754. I personally have had good luck with the times of using S.939 systems, though I do not own one myself, I would recommend going with MSI K8N Neo Platinum S.939 Motherboard. It's gotten great reviews in the past, and is a rock solid board. In addition slap on a 3500+ cpu and you'd be all set :)

[john19055]

I have had good luck with my MSI K8N NEO Platium and the 754 socket,but if you are going to upgrade I would go with the s939 instead of a 754 socket because the s939 has a brighter future than a 754.

[Marcos]

No problems here with nforce 3 250gb MSI Neo2. It was the first revisions (non 250gb chipsets) that sucked IIRC.