What does everyone think of this board?

[Novdid]

After I OC'ed my fingers, I now see a great improvement going from ps2 to USB!!!

[Jammrock]

The faster mouse ports is good for gaming, but that's not the point. The point is with the 16-bit ISA legacy bus gone!! If you don't want to get rid of your old keyboard, get a PS/2-to-USB adaptor:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2002&pcount=&Product_Id=79&Section.Section_Path=%2F%2FRoot%2FUSB%2FMacProducts%2FAdapters%2F

Jammrock

[KvHagedorn]

Sweet.. Thanks for the link Jammrock! I shoulda known there would be some sorta gadget like that.

[bsdgeek]

After I OC'ed my fingers, I now see a great improvement going from ps2 to USB!!!

ROFLMAO!

[Wombat]

After I OC'ed my fingers, I now see a great improvement going from ps2 to USB!!!

And his girlfriend is happier, too!

[Novdid]

You bet!!!

[Snake-Eyes]

on Asus boards. My recently replaced AMD760 based A7M266 was great until maybe a month or so ago (I've had it for nearly a year), at which time something in the motherboard itself decided to make AGP4x unstable. I had a VisionTek GF3, 2x256MB Micron PC2100 ram, and a T-Bird 1.33GHz processor on board. About a month ago, I started having problems with WindowsXP reverting to 640x480x16 colors (yes, that's colors, not bits). When I checked device manager, I saw that there was a red X on the GF3. Rebooting would occasionally fix the problem, but when I checked using PowerStrip, I saw that the video card was reverting to 2x mode. I tried reinstalling the AMD AGP drivers, the nVidia drivers (several revisions), all to no or spurious effect. Finally I checked the BIOS, where I disabled 4x AGP mode. At that point, everything started working again.

Still thinking it was the video card, I moved it into my wife's PC, where it worked perfectly (of course, her motherboard only supports 2x mode- Intel BX chipset). Then I borrowed a GF4 (later bought one too), and tried that in my machine, with the same sort of problems I had with the GF3. Now that I've replaced the motherboard with an MSI KT3 Ultra, both video cards work fine in this machine. I do plan to move my replaced parts into my wife's machine, but since she doesn't play 3D games too much, I doubt she'll notice the 2x setting the video card will be running at.

So much for Asus' reliability record. (This was my first Asus, so maybe I got unlucky.)

On the other hand, I haven't owned any recent Abit boards, since their last BX based one. I've had (and am still using both at the moment) both a BH6 revision 1 and a BE6 revision 1. Both are still functioning perfectly with older processors.

I really like the idea of a legacy-free motherboard, but right now I need at least a serial and a parallel connector on my motherboard. I've got two printers- an inkjet using USB, and a laser that only uses parallel, as well as an APC Backups that uses the serial port (I think I can get a kit from APC to convert the Backups to USB, but I don't know about the printer). I've already made the move to all USB instead of PS2 for my keyboard and mouse, and it seems that most recent motherboards fully support them, right from booting. I didn't realize that the Asus did until I first connected mine to it that way, and the MSI was a given.