Jarek said:
Hello, just wanted some comments on these two boards as to which one
was better.
Please say what you think about them
i.e ; they both suck - whatever needs to be said
here they are:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-128-263
and
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-130-463
Thanks
Okay, here´s my take. I do not have first hand experience with either of
these boards. However, I do have a Gigabyte board, and it´s been a terrific
board. I´d buy another Gigabyte board in a heartbeat. I have the infamous
GA-8IRXP board, that many owners bought because of the ability to overclock
the voltage to 1.85V from the 1.5V stock P4 voltage. Other similar boards
on the market only allowed 1.7V to 1.75V. However, there was a snafu when
OCíng the voltage. Even if you left the voltage at the default setting, but
set it allow manual adjustment of the voltage, it developed reboot
problems. They fixed, eventually, but at the cost of how far you could push
the voltage, now limited to 1.75V. Many owners were angered. I couldn´t get
my CPU to OC far enough to even need 1.75V, let alone 1.85V, so it was a
moot point to me.
I´ve had a bad experience with one MSI board. Seems it kept losing the USB
in WinXP. It was a 925 chipset based board. Another poster in one of the
many newsgroups I read, said he had a Via/AMD based MSI board that was
doing the same thing! It seems it must be an MSI problem, or something.
However, the othere MSI board I´ve had experienc with, had little trouble
at all, other than a difficult time getting the onboard SATA/ATA133
controller to work. We finally got it working, after booting from an ATA100
port, adding the driver, then booting from the ATA133 port.
