Motherboard Vote

[mikeo2l]

If you are reallllly happy with your motherboard post a reply and rate it of of 100.

Give the PC spec. Cause I want to buy a motherboard! and I want the best..

Note all the pros and cons. This should be helpful for other on the boards at least it will point us in the right direction.

Motherboard: Asus A7V 133
Processor: Athlon 1.4(DDR)
Speed: 1.430 Gigs
Temperature: 45c Standby - 48c Max (so far)
RAM: 750 Megs (133 SDRAM)
HD: IBM 40Gig 7200(rpm) WD 30Gig (5400 rpm)
Video: GForce III 64MB
Monitor: VX900 19" (Best Monitor Ever)
CR Writer: Yamaha 2200E-VX (100% Happy)

Pros:
It works!
It supports extra drives (Promise Ultra 100)

Cons:
Hard to get working with processors > 1G
Prone to bios lock-up during setup.
If switches are incorrect or overclocking.
Setting up processors > 1Gig can lock up bios (no boot)
No ide slots (old I now but I love my Creative Gold 64 Card)

Marks out of 100: 75

Wishlist:
If the board had 1 IDE slot and worked properly at 1.4 Gigs and had DDR ram slots... I would not change it. And 300Meg FSB would be nice...

 

[Out0fOrder]

Hello,
My advice to you would be to wait a few months untill the nForce Chipset comes out from nVidia. Yes, that wasn't a typo. nVidia has designed and will be shipping a north/southbridge that blows most everything else out of the water.

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?page=nforce

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nppa

One "drawback" is that its only for AMD (last I heard) Personally I don't see that as a problem, but if you perfer Intel your out of luck.

-Out0fOrder

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Have you checked the following sites for motherboard reviews ? :

http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/index.html

and

http://www.dansdata.com/

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Regards