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  1. 24th Sep 2004 04:48 #1
    philupnorth
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    Hi

    After numerous problems with my PC which I finally traced to my motherboard it is time to rebuild it but I was wondering what is the best to get. Different friends recommend Abit (this is from the colleagues of my lodger who are field service engineers), ASUS & MSI which doesn’t help much as their opinions differ so much and I was wondering what the general opinion is.

    I’ve been told Abit because they are very stable by one, MSI because Microsoft use them, etc, etc. I intend to use an AMD chip so that does narrow it down as I'm looking for socket A and IDE not SATA with onboard 5.1 sound and video USB 1 & 2, 4 expansion slots, DDR RAM, 64MB cache & Firewire would be nice but not a priority
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  2. 24th Sep 2004 05:10 #2
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    I have built quite a few machines now, and I haven't used anything but Asus. This is not to say other brands are bad, but Asus motherboards are rock solid.

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  3. 24th Sep 2004 06:16 #3
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    ASUS motherboard come with plenty of utilities also. If you are a gamer look into a board with PCI-E slots, if you are keeping your processor make sure you get the same socket number.
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    Asus A7N8X is still a fantastic board for the money. I'm sure there are newer versions of it but that's always been one of my favorite single CPU boards.
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    ASUS has a great warranty 3 years!
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    MSI boards kick ass
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    ASUS is top notch. Friend of mine has a local PC shop (builds clones) He does sell Intel, ASUS, MSI but he also sells FASCOMM. Good board and fairly inexpensive. I believe they OEM for Dell and some others.

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    OMFG, did we not learn anything from my 2460?
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    ASUS boards are excellent use them for 5 years now without any trouble .
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    Asus P4P800 here.

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