Suggestions for a motherboard
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Hey, I'm looking to build a another PC soon, and I'm using some new (and old) parts I've got. I am way out of touch with Motherboards. I've got a decently fast IDE hard drive I plan on using and some PC133 RAM. Anyone got any suggestions for a good board to get with these parts? Or just a good board in general? Thanks, Marcus
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Hey, I'm looking to build a another PC soon, and I'm using some new (and old) parts I've got. I am way out of touch with Motherboards. I've got a decently fast IDE hard drive I plan on using and some PC133 RAM. Anyone got any suggestions for a good board to get with these parts? Or just a good board in general? Thanks, Marcus
try to avoid anything with a via chipset if you can... they have had so many problems with big companies like NVIDIA because of the way the onboard busmatering hogs the bus. Causes great deals of headaches. As a mentioned in a previous post supermicro and tyan make very good boards. Joseph Dempsey jdempsey@cox.rr.com Joseph.Dempsey@thermobio.com "Software Engineering is a race between the programmers, trying to make bigger and better fool-proof software, and the universe trying to make bigger fools. So far the Universe in winning." --anonymous
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try to avoid anything with a via chipset if you can... they have had so many problems with big companies like NVIDIA because of the way the onboard busmatering hogs the bus. Causes great deals of headaches. As a mentioned in a previous post supermicro and tyan make very good boards. Joseph Dempsey jdempsey@cox.rr.com Joseph.Dempsey@thermobio.com "Software Engineering is a race between the programmers, trying to make bigger and better fool-proof software, and the universe trying to make bigger fools. So far the Universe in winning." --anonymous
A friend of mine has 694D Pro-AIR VIA-694X Dual FC-PGA ATA100+RAID 1394. Although it has VIA chipset it boasts some cool features like 4X AGP, 4 DIMMS, RAID, ATA 100. :) ;) ;P :-D :cool: Farhan Noor Qureshi
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Hey, I'm looking to build a another PC soon, and I'm using some new (and old) parts I've got. I am way out of touch with Motherboards. I've got a decently fast IDE hard drive I plan on using and some PC133 RAM. Anyone got any suggestions for a good board to get with these parts? Or just a good board in general? Thanks, Marcus
I'll go with Supermicro too. This one is a horrible QDI mess - doesn't adhere to very many standards at all. Apart from the "tomshardware" site, can I recomend a dual CPU hardware site: www.2cpu.com? I'd certainly sign up for a dual CPU mobo again - problems with CPU hogging just disappear. I'd take my dual 266 Pentium 2 over this single 550 Pentium 3 everyday (even if it worked as specified). Anyone running dual AMD out there? ATL Student :rolleyes:
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Hey, I'm looking to build a another PC soon, and I'm using some new (and old) parts I've got. I am way out of touch with Motherboards. I've got a decently fast IDE hard drive I plan on using and some PC133 RAM. Anyone got any suggestions for a good board to get with these parts? Or just a good board in general? Thanks, Marcus