Lately we've been offering the new budget 754 nforce 430/410 by Nvidia (with Gigabyte boards) as a solution for budget concious buyers who want PCIe. It appears that Gigabytes GA-K8NGMF51 do not work properly with AMD64 Athlon based processors and can only manage with Semprons.http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...w.aspx?ProductID=1950&ProductName=GA-K8N51GMF
The problem manifests itself in the form of unpredicatable behaviour while trying to turn on the PC. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, the oddest thing is that once the PC is on it's stable, through Prime, Memtest, 3dmark and any other test you run it through (including todays latest gaming titles). We've sent back all the boards we have and are waiting for Gigabyte to corrrect the issue. We are currently using the GA-K8NE http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rview.aspx?ProductID=1958&ProductName=GA-K8NE .
This has been comfirmed by the local importer , but I haven't recieved any explanation of what's causing the issue. I thought I should make it known in case anyone is considering a purchase (although I imagine most people here will not be buying budget).
The problem manifests itself in the form of unpredicatable behaviour while trying to turn on the PC. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, the oddest thing is that once the PC is on it's stable, through Prime, Memtest, 3dmark and any other test you run it through (including todays latest gaming titles). We've sent back all the boards we have and are waiting for Gigabyte to corrrect the issue. We are currently using the GA-K8NE http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rview.aspx?ProductID=1958&ProductName=GA-K8NE .
This has been comfirmed by the local importer , but I haven't recieved any explanation of what's causing the issue. I thought I should make it known in case anyone is considering a purchase (although I imagine most people here will not be buying budget).