Is this a good computer? i have questions!

[DosFreak]

Their right. That mobo is garbage. I wouldn't GIVE that motherboard to my worst enemy. I would sell it tho....

That mobo makes S3 look like NVIDIA.

[nehalmistry]

well.... im justing hating it more and more as i use it.... if i hafta i WILL go back to my K6-1... the chip is crap... but at least everything else is real nice...

anyway, i found a DFI motherboard for a good price.... should i get it? how are DFI? they any good... or as bad as pcchips?

the reason is it has an ISA slot, which saves me from getting a new sound card.... cos the onboard one's suck...

[DentyCracker]

That mobo has no AGP slot. It is meant to be a cheap business PC. I suspect that I may have a bum PS in the one that is giving more trouble. See, I told you the VideoCard was slow, as it uses system memory. I am not sure you can overclock that machine. The most you can do for graphics is to download the latest AGP driver for that chipset, and the latest driver for the VGA portion of that board. Go to www.pcchips.nl
it is a much better website than the Taiwanese one and MUCH faster

[This message has been edited by DentyCracker (edited 15 May 2001).]

[Rags]

DFI's are generally better than PCCHIPS, but I would still stray from them if possible.

Rags

[DentyCracker]

Oh, and rugger, the problem wasn't with the realtek chips per se, but that NIC manufacturers insisted on using cheap support chips. I had several rt8019 based NICs and the ones from Kingston worked consistently whereas the no name ones sometimes gave problems. The rt8139 seems harder to fsck up than the earlier ones.

[nehalmistry]

ah krap, you guys are full of good news eh!

it's either that... for about $125 CDN....
or i get a asus CUV4X-C mobo $149 + a decent creative sound card $49 = ~$200

<sigh> now why is DFI bad? same reasons?

[Rags]

I feel your pain, really I do.

My opinion on the matter is that it is much better to stay with what you are currently using and save up for the hardware that is tried and true. Don't compromise on the mainboard. Stick with Asus, Abit, AOpen, and MSI. CUV4X is not that good, if you are going to go with a P2/P3 platform, go with an intel solution such as a CUBX, P3Bf, CUSL2, etc. Be aware that the CUSL2 can be had with onboard audio and video, so that can help stem the costs if need be.

Just save up and be patient, it will save you a lot of headaches in the future...really it will.

Rags

[nehalmistry]

rags, i know what ur saying but my computer is something like 6 years old... i aint waiting any longer... this is what im going to buy......

http://www.dfi.com/product/productlist2.asp
then click CA64-EC .... (sorry, java)
for $116 CDN = ~$77 US

and as long as its better than PCCHIPS... i think i'll be fine...

[dsp]

Nehalmistry,

I haven't had a problem with DFI boards. I find them stable boards (and cheap ). It's a lot better (IMHO) than any PCCHIPS board. Just my $0.02(Canadian).

dsp

[nehalmistry]

well, i ended up getting a gigabye GA-6VXC7-4X motheboard with via apollo pro 133a chipset.... holy crap i have never seen speeds so fast before in Halflife.... this is the best.... fast and stable....

and as for that pc chips one... yuk...... my computer is NOW all nice and dandy.. thx for all ur guys' help