Motherboards

[Yoshie]

Which are the best mobo's on the market? for both power pc's and budget home pc's?

[WildTech]

Theres a ton of good boards out there, but my personal choice is ASUS. They offer a complete line of boards for every processor and the reliability is amazing. Abit makes good boards too.

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[techs]

agree with WildTech about asus(own 2) and abit. for my shop built computers i wait on both these boards, since their newest releases tend to still have bugs, and need various bios, driver upgrades.
Gigabyte, MSI and Soyo tend to come out with similiarly based mobos slightly later than the above, and these are my choice for more trouble and maintence free computers. Gig and msi for power and soyo for budget.BTW the soyos come with a nice free software bundle.



[This message has been edited by techs (edited October 26, 2000).]

[Yoshie]

Thanks guy's, im getting all my parts together to build a nice fast machine, but undecided about the mobo. So this should help.
Thanks again.

[AlienDyne]

This will surely help!
Asus is the best and the fastest!

Agreed.

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[NPaladin]

ABit and Asus are good, but too damn expensive.....I agree that stability is good, but Asus and Abit are pretty much charging you for their name, too. I get just as solid a board with a Microstar (MSI) name on it....that's all I'd ever buy.

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[protechpc]

If you want solid reliablity, support, and a decent web site, ASUS is the board to use.

I have also used the Tekram boards as well with the good success.

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[PizzaMan]

I've had pretty good service with Tyan boards. Any comments on them?

PizzaMan

[klenard]

We sell the TYAN Trinity K7 board and we have not had any calls on them so far. It is a decent motherboard that smokes with an 850 T-Bird on it.

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[Jvaguy]

my my how bout epox ... thats what im still using on board #3 since the p66

[Green Iguana]

First choices, Abit & Asus. QDI, Soyo, Gigabyte and MSI also make some good boards.

[Orangemon1]

We use a lot of Tyan Trinity 400s. Been having some compability issues with it and ME. Some video cards we have always use don't work in the combination and things like that.

[Ruslan]

Asus,Abit,Gigabyte,MSI,Soyo,EPoX,Lucky Star - in that order.
Stay away from PCChips (=Elpina,=Matsonic).

[NPaladin]

Just out of curiousity, anyone used that new T-bird board with the built-in video?

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[Yoshie]

So it is decided ASUS and ABit are the mobo's to use.
Thanks to all who replied.

[pga]

personally: abit is my top choice

then asus

then msi....

[shawnMt]

I'm hung on Asus, Abit, Tyan in no particular order. Different boards for diff setups.

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[Darren Wilson]

QDI through & through for me at the moment.
Rock solid , no thrills boards.

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[Gabriel]

Two Major Options (AMD ThunderBird for sure):
A. Asus A7v - Excellent Board.
B. Gigabyte GA-7ZX - A well made M/B too. It Includes Dual BIOS which is very good for itself.

[NorthStar]

I use Asus for personal use and Asus,tyan and Gigabyte for customers systems.
Never had any DOA's Had a few Asus boards fail in machines anda couple tyans but not had a Gigabyte fail yet.


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[bdunn]

IMHO the best of the budget boards is Shuttle. They also provide some of the easiest reading documentation.

They are inexpensive and stable. Tyan is another. Ive had mixed experience with FIC some great ones but a number of DOAs.

[3fingersalute]

I used to stick to strictly FIC, but they seemed to go to h*ll over the the last year or two....Now I use either Gigabyte or Asus!

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[jasonflorida1]

A pretty good mobo for cheap PC's with everything built in for under $80 is the 599 and 598LMR made by PC Chips. After you get the hang of configuring them they are good little board for sub $400 PC's.