Motherboard choice

[The Undertaker]

Dear All,
Anyone to advice me on the best motherboard between ECS and Biostar? More
specifically to sockets A and 754 (AMD). Thanks.
The Undertaker

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hi

Your best bet would be asus mother brds and if that's not
what you want I would go with Biostar much better than
ECS in my opinion but I prefer asus.

Alvin

 

[Guest]

What is the 'best' will invoke many different responses.

Go out and find a PC magazine which has a comparision of performance of
Mobos or even complete systems. These could include PCs from HP, Dell or
whatever.

The tests should include application performance.

Now, when you find a PC that works 'best' for the type of work do do, then
look to see which company made the Mobo.

Otherwise, if you have a hard on for a CPU; then go to see which Mobos are
certified by the CPU manufacturer.

Keep in mind; many Mobos made today can include all these 'on-board' extras:
NIC
AGP
Audio
USB
SATA

You may want a 'performance' video card, so make sure that the Mobo you
choose, does not have the on-board device. Or you may not want to go to
Serial-ATA Hard Disk, so again, why buy something you don't need.

Do some research, find out the CPU you want, the video you want, the disk
types, etc. Now you're starting to determine the specification for your Mobo
and can 'select' from all the different items made.

 

[NobodyMan]

You may want a 'performance' video card, so make sure that the Mobo you
choose, does not have the on-board device. Or you may not want to go to
Serial-ATA Hard Disk, so again, why buy something you don't need.

What a load of garbage. Just because the board may come with onboard
video does not mean you can't go out and buy a high performance card,
install it, and disable the on-board video. Many folks do this with
zero problems. It works just fine.

 

[nihoa]

Dear All,
Anyone to advice me on the best motherboard between ECS and Biostar? More
specifically to sockets A and 754 (AMD). Thanks.
The Undertaker

I have a Biostar M7 NCD Ultra. I like it. I've had no problems with it.
This is my first Biostar motherboard. I bought it because the reviews on
this motherboard model was above average. I got this particular model from
www.mwave.com.

A few days ago, I upgraded my CPU with an XP2800+ - no problems. I also
updated the BIOS when I first got the board. I had no problems here either;
I just loaded the .bin file on to a floppy and ran the flash program that's
on the BIOS menu.

nihoa

 

[namniar]

You missed the point.

r.

What a load of garbage. Just because the board may come with onboard
video does not mean you can't go out and buy a high performance card,
install it, and disable the on-board video. Many folks do this with
zero problems. It works just fine.

 

[NobodyMan]

You missed the point.

r.

No I didn't.. If the only thing on the board that disuades you from
buying it is because it has onboard video, just buy that board and
disable it. Your advice was to skip considering it and you implied it
wouldn't be able to use a high-performance video card.