Little advice needed on buying a motherboard

by **msdl28712** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:46 pm

Still finding it a bit of a mine field to locate anything half decent and understand the features.

http://www.idealtec.net/tep22/catalog/d ... 225_34_223

Any of these any good or are they all crap.

by **ginogsm** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:15 pm

Weaver wrote:There isn't anything wrong with SiS, they have produced some of the best price/performance chipsets in the history of chipsets. The SiS 735 was IMHO the greatest price/performance chipset available for the Athlon for a good year or so. However, ECS really botched up the manufacturing when they put the SiS 735 on their K7S5A. However, the board was a great one when you received one without manufacturing defects. (The only point of this paragraph is to defend SiS).
-Weaver

I agree John. SiS have produced many chipsets/mobos for Athlon and the AMD platform in general. But their chipsets IMHO aren't good for P4 , even now that SiS have on their hands the official Intel license.

by **Syphon Filter** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:18 pm

I have been using a P4 for a fair while now and fomr what I know and have read you cannot go far wrong with these boards:

Abit IC7 range. I use the Max3 and its an excellent board for both overclocking and general use.

DFI LanParty Pro875, heard nothing but good things about these but not used one myself.

Intel D875PBZLK...good as a general use board but forget OC'ing this one.

Asus P4C800. Again not used this but from what I have read and seen posted elsewhere this is a sold reliable board, again with excellent OC'ing potential.

Note all these boards use the 875i chipset, more commonly known as canterwood. The revisions of these boards that use the 865i or springdale are just as worthy but do not include PAT and offer slightly less performance. Hope this helps some.

by **OsirisX** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:20 pm

I agree, I had a very good experience the PBZ however it doesn't have the ability to over clock. Intel's boards are known to be stable and solid although it would be alot more popular if it was overclockable. I'm planning to get an asus board for my next upgrade since it has the ability to oc 30% and I'm not too sure how stable it is though.

by **ginogsm** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:41 pm

I'd go for the Abit's IC7-G ( Max3) series. I have one and it is preety stable and OCable , but rather expensive.

by **Syphon Filter** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:48 pm

yes it is pricey but its a very well featured baord with plenty of options in the BIOS. At stock speeds it is a very solid board. Plus it looks spanking with its black PCB and blue cooling solutions.. ^*^

by **ginogsm** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:50 pm

Yeap it does look fine.It is anice mobo. The FSB can be as high as 441MHz. A guy has OCed with an IC7-G mobo at 5GHz.

by **imnuts** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:19 am

msdl28712 wrote:Still finding it a bit of a mine field to locate anything half decent and understand the features.

http://www.idealtec.net/tep22/catalog/d ... 225_34_223

Any of these any good or are they all crap.

ive read and heard a lot of good things about the asus p4p and p4c mobo's. in fact, i want to get the p4c800 deluxe this summer and start work on my own project. as for the package you were looking at in the first post, i would have to go with the crowd and say that its a waste putting an 800mhz fsb chip onto a 533 board.

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