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Could somebody make a recommendation as to a decent motherboard that won't cost an arm and a leg. I'm building a PC from scratch and want to make sure I don't need to watch out for the motherboard I'm looking at. I'm looking at a DFI AK74-EC motherboard. It has 5 PCI, 1 AGP and 1 ISA motherboard. It has 3 DIMM slots that can hold 512MB of RAM each. The board is $125. Anybody heard of this or have a better recommendation?
Thanks for your help. :cool:
DaMasta
03-24-2001, 08:01 PM
If overclocking is not your thing, and I'm assuming it's not if your looking for stablilty, then tyan makes great server boards. You may check up on some reviews of their socket a boards. I saw that dfi on pricewatch for an average of 90 something dollars. I even saw one that was $76.
crazyfish
03-24-2001, 08:14 PM
The Abit KT7A-Raid board is probably the best one I've ever gotten to play with. Great features, 1AGP/6PCI with 3 DIMM slots. Though it's probably out of your price range at $165. Tyan's good, too. Just not as good as Abit.
Daedra
03-24-2001, 08:53 PM
Every one has there preference but im a Asus man and thats all i recommend to people, i would go with the asus CUSL2-C, they can be had for a around $110 @ pricewatch
www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com)
bdg1983
03-25-2001, 05:08 AM
All depends if you are planning to use a Celeron, PIII, P4, AMD Duron or TBird etc.
ph34r
03-25-2001, 10:31 AM
Get a dual board, and a single processor for now. I like my Tyan Tiger 100 (now 133 is out) - and I just went from a single p2-350 to dual 450's for $200. Holds up to a gig of ram in 4 slots, 1 agp, bunch o' pci and 2 isa, and that majickal second cpu slot. Right now my total cost of mobo and cpu's over a period of 2 years is $525, and I expect to keep running this machine for at least 3 more years. Not a bad TCO huh?
I have also heard good things about Abit boards in general, especially their dual cpu models.
If you are a AMD kinda guy, then wait a little bit longer....
PostCode
03-26-2001, 10:27 AM
Built a fair number of systems around DFI boards. Pretty stable boards all in all. Very few ever failed. But, what will the board be used for. Just playing games, running a server, running mail, etc...?
StanLin
03-26-2001, 11:03 AM
I am looking for a board with built-in video, sound and possibly LAN, to run PIII. Any idea which is most stable and cheap?
Choozo
03-26-2001, 03:55 PM
Originally posted by StanLin:
I am looking for a board with built-in video, sound and possibly LAN, to run PIII. Any idea which is most stable and cheap?
In my opinion, those kind of boards should be shunned like the plague if you intend to run Linux fairly painless on them.
Just my $0.02 ... Cheers! :)