RE: Motherboard recommendations?

In my business, selling systems hardware and software to my customers
for the past 20 years I have seen pretty much everything in the PC
industry. I have built systems using Intel, Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI, ECS,
Tyan, etc. etc. I have had problems with all of them. Someone said in
this post they prefer Intel because of their reliability, drivers, etc.
I have seen many issues with those boards and with the higher cost and
lack of appreciable performance gain they are not the best bang for the
buck either. Unless you are working with Windows 95/98 drivers should
not be an issue. The best motherboard I had ever come across in my
experience was Micronics but they are long gone. I know that those Fry's
ECS boards are junk and any motherboard which has a fan for the chipset
should be avoided as well. I have seen very good reliability from ASUS
and MSI. Gigabyte has given me the most problems over the years. Tyan
was crap in the beginning but has improved greatly. We have a customer
with a dual Athlon Tyan board and it works great. It's all about
experience and trying out different things. Not all hardware works with
all hardware and software.




Michael Seidner
M5 Systems
602-288-8304
http://www.m5systems.net

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[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Dennis
Kibbe
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:48 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations?

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:09:54 -0700
Bupkus <bupkus2@cox.net> wrote:

> Victor Odhner wrote:
> > My motherboard is messed up, and it's time for me to replace it.
> > I don't want to do this again soon, so I'm looking for opinions
> > that may lead me to a *reliable* system.
[SNIP]

I can certainly recommend the ASUS X Series having built a couple of
dozen boxes. I especially like the CPU COP feature that monitors the CPU
temperature and shuts the machine down before damage can occur.

Buy it online from Newegg for about $50 plus $5 (or less) shipping.
You'll have it in 2-3 days.

Giga-byte is a reliable brand as well, but last I looked the backplane
only had two USB ports (the ASUS supports four) and wiring the front USB
ports might be more work with the Giga-byte, since, in the past, they
did it slightly difference than the others. Directron has a helpful
page on understanding the front USB connection.

If your current case doesn't offer a good thermal solution for today's
CPUs, I'd recommend getting an Antec or In-Win case.

Guten Rutsch und ein erfolgreiches neues Jahr!

Gewunscht von,

Dennisk
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