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| Thread ID: 85529 | 2007-12-13 07:46:00 | Good reliable motherboards | Myth (110) | Press F1 |
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| 620900 | 2007-12-13 07:46:00 | I am wondering what brands of motherboard are considered to be good, reliable and not off-the-planet expensive I know that some in here say that MSI is absolute crap, yet I have one in this P4 system that is 4 years old (and is only now beginning to cause issues if I plug in more than one RAM module). Maybe I got lucky? Looking to possible replcement/upgrade |
Myth (110) | ||
| 620901 | 2007-12-13 07:58:00 | If youre going to stay with P4, theyre pretty scarce. Altho, I've seen Asrock (quite a few of them are MATX), but they dont have a hell of a lot on them (like this one 3 PCI - SATA / IDE / 2 simms / NIC). And onboard video, but I brought an AGP card. When my ASUS died, I was pretty lucky to find this mobo in Newmarket! I've seen a few Gigabytes around too, but never had one. Is that MSI BIOS up to date? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 620902 | 2007-12-13 08:06:00 | Have had MSI and an ASrock motherboards in the past. Neither I kept for more than 1.5 years, but during their time with me they served me well. No complaints. I would go for MSI rather than ASrock though. The MSI 945P Neo-F was a good board for me. They've stopped making those though. Are we talking about Socket 478 or 775 here? |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 620903 | 2007-12-13 08:10:00 | If youre going to stay with P4, theyre pretty scarce. Altho, I've seen Asrock (quite a few of them are MATX), but they dont have a hell of a lot on them (like this one 3 PCI - SATA / IDE / 2 simms / NIC). And onboard video, but I brought an AGP card. When my ASUS died, I was pretty lucky to find this mobo in Newmarket! I've seen a few Gigabytes around too, but never had one. Is that MSI BIOS up to date?Never touched the BIOS, never had any reason to. Still don't Possible upgrade to AMD x2. Think I'll run the P4 till the end as a server |
Myth (110) | ||
| 620904 | 2007-12-13 08:10:00 | Many m/b manufacturers got their reputation sullied by the leaky cap fiasco. Id say Gigabyte/asus (maybee Abit/MSI???), just avoid their budget boards & get something with a 3 year guarantee (not that it will help if it fails in 2 years) Maybee look at an established chipset (ie known to be reliable & bug free) |
steveroby (9470) | ||
| 620905 | 2007-12-13 09:20:00 | I have heard it may be best to stay away from first releases otherwise you could end up being a beta tester of sorts... I am considering a MSI AM2+ for my next upgrade (when they start selling them) I've had 3 Asus boards (one which had ps/2 ports die recently, been replaced with AOpen), 1 still working fine, and 1 which I think might have a faulty BIOS chip, nothing else seems wrong 1 Gigabyte (slot 1) which is still going perfect 4 MSI (2 working fine still, 1 was working fine when I sold it, and 1 which was nothing but headaches from day 1) I think I would generally pick from those 3 depending on price/features And definitely no ECS |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 620906 | 2007-12-13 09:33:00 | In my experience Intel boards are excellent. Graphics performance has been rubbish in the past, but looking at the integrated graphics on my current motherboard I can safely say that's changed. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 620907 | 2007-12-13 11:22:00 | Intel provide the worst integrated graphics IMO. you can get integrated geforce which are much better If you wanted to actually do any gaming or anything good you'd probably want a dedicated card anyway still I would never buy one anyway - does intel make motherboards for AMD CPUs? Exactly. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 620908 | 2007-12-13 11:56:00 | Intel provide the worst integrated graphics IMO. you can get integrated geforce which are much better If you wanted to actually do any gaming or anything good you'd probably want a dedicated card anyway still I would never buy one anyway - does intel make motherboards for AMD CPUs? Exactly. The lastest Intel chipsets have very, very good integrated graphics. Of course that's not confined to Intel boards - just the chipset. Personally I don't really like Intel boards, but I love the G33 chipset which is what Bletch is referring to. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 620909 | 2007-12-13 12:07:00 | I assume Myth doesn't care less about IGPs though. GMA X3500 is a good IGP, but it's still not enough even for average gamers today, unless you're playing 4/5+ year old games. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
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