[wplug] Moterboard - Decision time

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Sun Aug 15 16:25:36 EDT 2004


Sometime in August vze57qmg at verizon.net assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Thanks for all the suggestions on the motherboard replacement.
| 
| Per your (collective) advice I will avoid replacing my blown PC Chips
| M.B. with another from the same manufacturer.
| 
| I found a board that seemed just right from Tyan - the S2495 based on the
| KT400 chipset.  Unfortunately this board is OUT OF STOCK everywhere I
| checked so it doesn't look good for this one.
| 
| CompUSA has an MSI (KT4VL) for around $100 and an ASUS (A7N8X) for around
| $160. Neither of these have the onboard temp/voltage sensors I was
| looking for but I may settle on the MSI.
| 
| I was going to check out the Gigabyte M.B.'s at A2Z in Monroeville on
| Tues. if you think it's worth my trouble.
| 
| I was wondering if anyone has an opinion on the chipsets these boards
| use. Most use Via or NVidia.  I've heard bad things about both of these.
| My last board used SiS but it worked fine even though I've heard bad
| things about them too. These are the chipsets that handle on-board
| devices (lan, sound, etc) as well as the PCI bus, USB, sensors, etc.
| What's your opinion?
| 
| I plan on getting an M.B. this week so any last minute suggestions would
| be very helpful.

I didn't chime in before, but I'd like to take the opportunity to plug
supermicro [1]. I've been using one of their dual cpu boards in my home
computer for about 6 years and it's done really well.

I know it's nice to shop locally, but I typically just order everything
online. I prefer newegg.com -- they might not be the cheapest, but they
have really good customer service [2].

Of course, with any advice you get on a list like this, caveat emptor.

[1] http://www.supermicro.com/
[2] http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2121.html

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