What Mainboard do you have?

**Killeroy** · 04-07-2003, 01:57 PM

Let us know what kind of mainboard you have.

Please take the poll and select your brand (if one is missing, let me know) and also post what model you have.

This will give us more insight as to what is out there besides the "big" players

Killeroy.

**sfw1960** · 04-20-2003, 03:58 PM

Looks Like Aopen MoBos are considered the generic leader!
lol.....

SIS745...
No Mo' VIA fo' me......

**vfxraven19** · 05-08-2003, 04:53 PM

Biostar M7NCG v1.4, and loving it as my carry around rig...

**Agentkhiem** · 05-10-2003, 09:05 PM

Don't forget that infamous ECS K7AMA...

**gryphyn** · 05-12-2003, 12:54 AM

Well since I got bored with my Epox boards 2 and ECS 1, I decided to try an Asrock K7VM2 with a 1.3 duron on it. I don't know how well it O/Cs yet since I'm installing the O/S right now. It looks good and it booted right up for install so that is a good sign.

G

**noahm3** · 05-31-2003, 03:09 AM

Biostar M7VIB in my current rig. Biostar M7VIT Pro in the new one I'm building. I guess I've become "brand loyal"

No, my M7VIB is a stable board, haven't had any problems out of it. Doesn't overclock all that well (half of which is probably because my processor is a palomino), but I've been happy with it. I can't wait to see how the new one does with a 2500+Barton

**sfw1960** · 05-31-2003, 02:42 PM

I did the Biostar route....
TRY to get wtty serv. when a product fails..... Just TRY I say....
I am brand loyal too , until the compnay puts the screwz to you.....
Windows ME???
I have an oem copy I'd gladly sell for $50 with the COA , what a crashy , bug-riddled , file corrupting , useless , blue-screened , piece of filth that OS was..... even W95 was better than a fair margin.
Running ME , how can you say stable about any hardware??

Looks Like Aopen MoBos * were * considered the generic leader!

**noahm3** · 06-08-2003, 07:47 PM

Originally posted by sfw1960
I did the Biostar route....
TRY to get wtty serv. when a product fails..... Just TRY I say....
I am brand loyal too , until the compnay puts the screwz to you.....
Windows ME???
I have an oem copy I'd gladly sell for $50 with the COA , what a crashy , bug-riddled , file corrupting , useless , blue-screened , piece of filth that OS was..... even W95 was better than a fair margin.
Running ME , how can you say stable about any hardware??
Looks Like Aopen MoBos * were * considered the generic leader!

Yes, I agree that it is a little buggy

But I've got it to where it runs OK right now. But I am upgrading to the Student/Teacher version of Windows Office XP as soon as possible. I should have went ahead and put XP on last year when I has this computer built, but I didn't

And I decided that if I'm going to be building a new computer, I don't need to put middle of the road stuff in it (I've decided to screw branding). So I put the M7VIT in this one, and am using the M7VIB-A for a DC cruncher with an ol' 1.2ghz duron.

**sfw1960** · 06-08-2003, 11:13 PM

I sure DO NOT want to try sounding like a know-it-all , but I am 131% sure officeXP is an upgrade for MS office [95 - 97 - 2000] NOT an OS but an app for Windows

... I'd would like to recommend however , that you spend the extra $40-50 on XP pro rather than XP home...
According to my older brother , and from what I've seen , it IS that much better!

http://www.newegg.com/software/

I am going to XP pro with the next MB I buy - W2K isn't quite as stable [ or game friendly ] as XP , but waaaaaaaaaaaaay better that ME or any 9X platform !
One of our maintenance men at work says:
"It's like ice cream , if you've never had it , then you don't know what you are missing!"

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...102-015&DEPA=6

Good Luck!!!

**noahm3** · 06-09-2003, 01:15 AM

Originally posted by sfw1960
I sure DO NOT want to try sounding like a know-it-all , but I am 131% sure officeXP is an upgrade for MS office [95 - 97 - 2000] NOT an OS but an app for Windows

s***e, you may be right. The way the package was reading, it was an OS system

**Killeroy** · 06-09-2003, 03:53 PM

Hey, looks like Biostar is edging ahaed. I heard many good things about them

Keep 'em coming!

Killeroy.

**Angry_Games** · 06-14-2003, 10:38 PM

well...I dont have it yet, but its on order to replace the Epox 8RDA3+ that is a piece of crap right out of the box...

http://www.amdboard.com/dfi_lanparty_kt400a.html

I do also have:

Gigabyte GA-7VRXP2.0 - not the fastest I am sure, but its damn stable...but one of the 'big boys' lol. Awesome feature-filled stable board though.

ASUS A7V - yes! its still running! 23-7! (heh we shut it off for an hour a day to plug in another comp and run a program). 900Mhz, GF2 GTS, PC133 512MB, SB Live 5.1...and its still playing UT2003, Freelancer, Eve-Online, everything.

I'm hoping this new DFI is the monster I been hunting under my bed heh =)

BIOstar always seemed like a cheapo crap board to me (PC Chips brother heh). I'm not flaming at all. I just remember the lil store I worked in FL that 50% of the dang things came back with ugly problems...but then again, that was 3 years ago also...I just never took them being a performance board, mainly an OEM basic board. Tell me im dumb! I get foggy in my old age lol.

**Will889** · 06-17-2003, 09:40 PM

In my specs. Fast as can be w/modded NB.

**SPQQKY** · 06-21-2003, 05:05 PM

Looks Like Aopen MoBos are considered the generic leader!

I would hardly consider AOpen a generic motherboard, they make high quality products. In fact, although they are not extreme overclockers, I would say they are better boards than Abit, Asus, Epox, etc., etc.. They use very good components.

**Angry_Games** · 06-21-2003, 05:08 PM

aopen to me is like DFI...they make some excellent quality boards, but never anything special.

Heck, my buddy still got an Aopen K6-2 500 machine running on an aopen board heh. Good stuff, just not full of goodies.

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