would you own this ASUS MOBO?
I have just given up on a PC and looking for another MOBO/CPU combo. This was cheapest first NON PCchips MOBO with P4 combo I found on Price Watch.
Does this MOBO have any SNAFUs I should be aware of?
ASUS
"P4S333"
SiSŪ 645 chipset 6 PCI,3 DDR DIMM, ACR, AGP 4X
$199 with cpu - PentiumŪ 4 1.7GHz 1700Mhz 478 Pin w/ Heatsink & Fan with complete combo kit.
Re: would you own this ASUS MOBO?
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Originally posted by natb1
I have just given up on a PC and looking for another MOBO/CPU combo. This was cheapest first NON PCchips MOBO with P4 combo I found on Price Watch.
Does this MOBO have any SNAFUs I should be aware of?
ASUS
"P4S333"
SiSŪ 645 chipset 6 PCI,3 DDR DIMM, ACR, AGP 4X
$199 with cpu - PentiumŪ 4 1.7GHz 1700Mhz 478 Pin w/ Heatsink & Fan with complete combo kit.
Often the solution with the lowest inital price is a poor one its total cost of ownership over its useful life will be excessive.
The most expensive inital price can also be a bad solution as the high price can mask high costs and you may be buying more than you need but its useful life is usually longer.
The best bet usually is something in the middle, slightly more than you want to pay but with slightly better specifications and quality than you need.
-The price is long forgotten while the quality still remains.
-Penny Shy, Pound Foolish
-If it fails to meet expections when new it will never meet them when it is old.
Without getting into a flame - I use Intel chipsets - Intel CPU - leadtek Nvidia Video Cards and Branded Ram. Thats it. This minimises compatibility - simplifys setup and driver issues and has given a very high customer satisfaction level. My choice of Boards are Gigabyte or Intel.
I avoid all the 'Performance boards' as the RAID and Firewire are not used and cost alot.
Forget the likes of ECS and such these are really budget stuff.
I do not and will not supply AMD based systems, I cannot get the stability and reliability that my clients require from them.
Use a Celeron CPU - say a 2.0 or 2.2 GHz - 845 Chipset Motherboard from say GIgabyte and stick some Samsung DDR memory in it with a GForce4-4200 you will build an ultrastable and good system. I use a huge number of celerons and because of the cost vs performance and this allows the use of extra memory.