Hi,

Sorry about the delay.  When I choose a mobo manufacturer, I watch the
reviews.  I like ASUS.  I also have a couple of HP Pavilions with MSI
boards in them, and although they're pretty basic in feature sets, so
far they've chugged along just fine.  I try not to be a nutter about any
specific manufacturer because they all have good production runs and bad
production runs.

I've never used SOYO, or ABIT, so I'm no help there.  I also don't
normally buy bundles, but www.jncs.com has a pretty good reputation.
However, if you would rather have a local place to deal with, (think a
place to throw the brick), Fry's has never refused to take anything back
from me that didn't fly.  They're just no help when it comes to choices.

Did you already research case, fans, power supply, chipset, supported
RAM, drive types etc.?

Frank
  

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:59, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 17:36, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I look at pricewatch.com for the ballpark on how much.  Then I look at
> > jncs.com, and outpost.com, (Fry's site). I also keep an eye on
> > www.tomshardware.com.  HTH.
> >
> > Frank
> 
> Cool.  But what are the manufacturers you think are the best?
> 
> Vaughn
> 
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 07:48, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > Hello everyone:
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about upgrading one of my slower systems with a motherboard
> > > bundle (the kind that includes CPU and RAM.)   Last year I upgraded my
> > > other tower with a Soyo Dragon bundle from MWave.  It's been a bit
> > > troublesome, perhaps because I foolishly chose the generic memory option
> > > - next time I'll spend the extra 10 or 20 bucks to get a better brand. 
> > > But I wanted to know if anybody had any recommendations?  I don't want
> > > bleeding edge, just another system that'll run 2GHz or so.  Normally I
> > > run AMD rather than Intel CPU's because of the price difference.  I know
> > > some people don't like AMD but many of my AMD systems seem to be have
> > > been pretty reliable.  I tried googling this issue, but there's so much
> > > commercial crap on the web now it's hard to get an objective view.  Any
> > > thoughts on this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Vaughn
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