What's the best motherboard with g400max??

[SteveC]

Nah, Abitofus would be better!

If gigabyte joined in, then it would not be nice!

Seriously - I know nothing of Aopen boards. Go check out http://bxboards.com for info on mainboards.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[cjolley]

I built 2 computers using AOpen boards and never could get eather one of them stable. I finaly had to RMA them back and switch to ABit.
chuck

your mileage may vary.

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ABit BH6 w/ Celery 333@500, 128mb gh@cas2, 10gb IBM@7200, SB Live Value@????, noname CDRom@40x, Mitsumi CDRW@2x2x8, Zoom@56k, Princeton EO75@1024x768x32x85hz, Matrox G400 MAX!!!!

[Zypher]

Either of the "Big As" would be on my recommendation list. Own[ed] both. Like[d] both.

From *my* experience (hence you can't flame me on that Asus is good for 'hard' options, like onboard scsi, lan and/or dual boards. The BP6 is damn fine, but getting *truly* stable dual celerons is not as easy as everyone has been making out. (see: ars review)

Abit is great for the 'soft' options, such as 80 billion fsb, voltage and timing settings and the like. More 'oc options.

FYI, busmastering should work on all BX boards. If not, its a screwy board or your setup is screwed

My "old" BH6 does fine with BM.

IMHO:

Asus = server/workstation boards
Abit = buttkickerstation boards (e.g. gaming)

[tish beta2]

I bought an Abit cus tomshardware site said it was so goood. Later I found out that "goood" ment fast. And nothing else...

I benched it a little and yes ram-speed scores were very fast. But when I hooked up my QuickCam to the parallel port, I got nothing than wierd lines and colours from it. Maybe a bios-upgrade would have fixed it but anyhow, I returned it and got an asus p2l97-s.

no problemo. though the ram speed wasn't that wast, quake2 levels loaded up twice as fast... (hd access)

What I'm tryi'n to say here is, asus got better quality and stability, but abit is for gamers/overclockers...

I now have of course an asus p2b-ds with my Max...

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Two lightwave sessions rendering in the background, fighting over my two prosessors, and their cycles

[This message has been edited by tish beta2 (edited 09-17-1999).]

[Maggi]

Hey tish,
nice Mobo you have (see my sig)

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I forgot to point out that the Asus P3B series uses SOFTBIOS too !



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Cheerio,
Maggi
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Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH

[Holerith]

ABit is good as is Asus. The ABit BE6 is a nice board but there are reports, apparently, of some hardware incompatibilities in the first run. (Just what I heard if anyone can verify or deny). The ASUS P2B-x's tend to be excellent boards.

AOpen boards are a general middle ground board sold most often to small OEM's, companies doing their own support/ipgrading inhouse and dealers that offer a locally assembled system. They are usually ok but not notable performers and quality varies widely.

I might also suggest Tyan as I have had good experiences with them as well.

BTW - anyone know where I can find a late revision S1564D ?



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Dean
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