Asus or Abit MB

[bobb]

I am building a new machine and have to decide between a Asus A8V-E Deluxe
or a Abit AX8. Both use K8T890 chip set and have PCI Express. The price is
the same. Any suggestions?

 

[RBM]

I'm a fan of Asus, but from what I read, folks love Abit just as much. I've
heard good things about Abit tech support which I can't claim for Asus. If
you need any technical assistance that isn't on their website, forget about
asking them

 

[Veritech]

i would get asus one
better around package, plus asus tend to be dependable but if its
signicantly more expensive go for the abit. Are you build the pc for your
self or for someone else, cause if its for you get a nforce 4 chipset.

 

[William W. Plummer]

I am building a new machine and have to decide between a Asus A8V-E Deluxe
or a Abit AX8. Both use K8T890 chip set and have PCI Express. The price is
the same. Any suggestions?

I have one of each. An Abit KR7A-RAID (I don't use the RAID) and an
ASUS AN7N8X-E. I like the ASUS better because it has more solid
construction and appears neater inside. The Abit has 4 memory slots so
you can get 1GB with 4 256MB DIMMs (cheap!). I had lots of reliability
problems with the Abit and had to set the FSB down to 100MHz to fix it.

Also, something is flaky with the BIOS on the Abit -- the memory will
come up using the default (factory) settings but if I do anything such
as reorder the boot device order, the machine hangs during the boot
process and I have to unplug and dischage the CMOS memory to fix it.
I'll probably update the BIOS to see if that problem goes away.

One of the machines features a replaceable BIOS memory chip, but I don't
remember which one.