motherboards

[Gene C]

what is your choice of use. even tho I have one or two of every kind they make. that is the slot 1's and older socket 5.7 80800 xt's and up.

I use abit & asus for my personel builds. tho gigabyte is also one of my favoried also !!

[NDC]

I'm quite happy with ABIT mainboards. ABIT for overclockability and Gigabyte and Tyan duallies for stability. I have a GigaByte GA6-BXDS with dual P3 550Mhz, Tyan S1832-DL with dual P3 800Mhz, and an ABIT VP6 with dual P3 850Mhz. I would recommend these three mainboards to anyone who is interested in building an SMP system...

[Mntsnow]

Asus, Abit, Soyo's are what I currently have in the house hold for the most part

[otheos]

I use Epox for the same reasons people buy Abit, but I find them at least as fast, more stable, with great quality and excellent support (something that the big three -ASUS/MSI/Gigabyte and Abit are missing). Add to that that they're usually 10-15% cheaper.

For value I use PCChips and while people say they have problems, I never had any out of 14 systems I have built around them in the past 3 years.

[Axel]

I prefer giga-byte and asus in that order. I've used techram boards in the past.

My favorite giga-byte feature has to be it's dual BIOS set-up-

Anyone who does frequent BIOS updates shouldn't have anything else as it's close to impossible to mis-flash one of these boards.

As far as documentation goes - I'd have to say ASUS wins hands down as far as I've seen - their motherboard manuals aren't the cheap black&white document on recycled paper most boards come with. Gigabyte is pretty good, but I've found mistakes in their documentation from time to time.

I shy away from abits because I've seen too many patches and tweaks posted for their stuff in the past.

Right now - I'm itching to find a vendor for the giga-byte ga-8itx3 board, but haven't found one on the market yet. That's what I hope to put into the system I'm building right now.

[Lt.Col.Claymore]

if you all loking for a great system and have at least 3000 dollar to spend try Alienware i had one a system from 2001 and whas working Great

i am sice 2002 a case modder i have tryed it on old Cases and as far i can. tell for an starter it whas not so bad. now i going to get a New system and i will take a Xaser 3 super tower with the following stuff in it

Mother board : Asus Ai series P4C800-E Deluxe
DDR memmory : Corsair XMS 400Mhz 4x 512Mb 2gigabyte!!
Case : Thermaltake Xaser III V2000A
CPU cooler : Thermaltake AquariusII
Cpu : Intel P4 800FSB 3.06 Ghz
3D Card : ATi Radeon 9800 XT/Pro
Power supply : Thermaltake Purepower 480W Butterfly
Keyboard+ mice: A1806

can tell you the cost of this is very high but Very Fast too

Greatings "Lt.col.Claymore" (From the Netherlands)