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Old May 24th 06, 08:35 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Default If you were to rate motherboards....

....say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.

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Old May 24th 06, 01:44 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Rich wrote:
...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.


From a personal perspective with no particular reason (preference
rating)....

Asus (10)
MSI (8)
DFI (8)
Gigabyte (6)
Biostar (3)
Foxconn (3)

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Old May 24th 06, 06:01 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Rich wrote:
...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like?
Not individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've
only ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.


From a reliability & stability POV.

1. Intel DPSD
2. Asustek
3. Fujitsu OEM
4. Foxconn
5. MSi
6. AOpen



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Old May 24th 06, 07:27 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:35:01 -0700, Rich wrote:

...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.


They're all made from pretty much the same copper clad multilayer
material. Many are oem made by one of a few large volume PC board
manufacturers who may or may not have their own brand or several brand
boards. So bare in mind that my list has nothing to do with quality,
value, functionality, features, etc, but strictly name recognition. And
at best, it's only my opinion, as others would have there own. And any
opinion of this is pretty much worthless on deciding what brand to buy.

ECS (PC Chips)
Asus (ASRock)
Intel
MSI
Gigabyte
Abit

For value, I'd rate it this way.

ECS
PC Chips
ASRock
MSI
Chaintek
Biostar


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Old May 26th 06, 11:41 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Default If you were to rate motherboards....

1. MSI
2. Gigabyte
3. Asus
4. ECS
5. Abit
6. DFI

I've used 3 MSI boards without any problems. I put Gigabyte 2nd because
their drivers were a little out of whack and I critisized this MB hard, but
after loading the Raid drivers, this motherboard stabled out real nice using
nvidias IDE driver. I used one asus board without difficulty but I purchased
a A8N-SLI Deluxe board which was dead out of the box. Asus tech said it was
because my A64 3500+ was not recognized because it wasn't new enough. And
there the asus sits still on my desk. Due to a bad Thermaltake power supply
I didn't find this out untill my free exchange expired. I'm going to try
flashing the bios sometime and hope that fixes it
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2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
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"Rich" wrote in message
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...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.



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Old May 26th 06, 11:58 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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I would also say get a motherboard with at least 6 sata ports, 8 if you can,
since sata optical drives will hopefully become more abundant

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Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP
MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner
Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C
2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter
2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD
Pioneer 110D+Liteon 1693S Dual Layer burner
Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones

3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers
Cpu -4405
3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024

Games I'm Playing- Battlezone II, IL-2 Sturmovick Series
Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2,
Civ IV
"VanShania" wrote in message
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1. MSI
2. Gigabyte
3. Asus
4. ECS
5. Abit
6. DFI

I've used 3 MSI boards without any problems. I put Gigabyte 2nd because
their drivers were a little out of whack and I critisized this MB hard,
but after loading the Raid drivers, this motherboard stabled out real nice
using nvidias IDE driver. I used one asus board without difficulty but I
purchased a A8N-SLI Deluxe board which was dead out of the box. Asus tech
said it was because my A64 3500+ was not recognized because it wasn't new
enough. And there the asus sits still on my desk. Due to a bad Thermaltake
power supply I didn't find this out untill my free exchange expired. I'm
going to try flashing the bios sometime and hope that fixes it
--
Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP
MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner
Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C
2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter
2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD
Pioneer 110D Dual Layer burner
Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones

3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers
Cpu -4405
3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024

Games I'm Playing- Battlezone II, IL-2 Sturmovick Series
Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2,
Civ IV



"Rich" wrote in message
oups.com...
...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.





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Old May 27th 06, 12:13 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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VanShania wrote:

I would also say get a motherboard with at least 6 sata ports, 8 if you can,
since sata optical drives will hopefully become more abundant


What advantage would SATA optical drives provide other than easier
cabling? (once its cabled-in, its not a problem, right?)


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Old May 28th 06, 06:01 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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Well, thats like saying theres no difference between IDE 100/133 hard drives
and sata150/300 drives. But you get a huge boost in performance when you
have sata( even though the fastest sata hard drive only transfers at about
57mb/s(WD 400/500's)). Just have to make sure the optical drives have fast
access times. The Plextor PX-16SA is a sata optical drive but is rated
slower than the current 33mb\s optical drives because of this. But that will
change fast I hope.

--
Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP
MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner
Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C
2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter
2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD
Pioneer 110D+Liteon 1693S Dual Layer burner
Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones

3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers
Cpu -4405
3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024

Games I'm Playing- Battlezone II, IL-2 Sturmovick Series
Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2,
Civ IV
"Bill" wrote in message
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In article , says...

VanShania wrote:

I would also say get a motherboard with at least 6 sata ports, 8 if you
can,
since sata optical drives will hopefully become more abundant


What advantage would SATA optical drives provide other than easier
cabling? (once its cabled-in, its not a problem, right?)




None.

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Old May 28th 06, 07:19 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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VanShania wrote:

Well, thats like saying theres no difference between IDE 100/133 hard drives
and sata150/300 drives. But you get a huge boost in performance when you
have sata( even though the fastest sata hard drive only transfers at about
57mb/s(WD 400/500's)). Just have to make sure the optical drives have fast
access times. The Plextor PX-16SA is a sata optical drive but is rated
slower than the current 33mb\s optical drives because of this. But that will
change fast I hope.


From a performance perspective, there is no difference between IDE
100/133 hard drives and SATA [anything] drives if everything else is equal.

Since optical drives are VERY slow in comparison, it makes no sense to
use SATA optical drives except for ease of cabling.


 




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