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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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If you were to rate motherboards....
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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If you were to rate motherboards....
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 -- Cheerz - Brownz http://www.brownz.org/ |
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If you were to rate motherboards....
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 -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm |
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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 -- 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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If you were to rate motherboards....
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 -- 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 ... 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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If you were to rate motherboards....
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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If you were to rate motherboards....
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 ... 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. Bill -- Gmail and Google Groups. This century's answer to AOL and WebTV. |
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If you were to rate motherboards....
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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