Best Feature-Rich Mobo

[fatty4ksu]

What is the easiest mobo to install? I hear the DFI is pretty complex.

 

[keeleysam]

The best feature rich mobo is definietly the MSI K8N Diamond. MSI is easy to use, DFI might be hard for n00bs. Gigabyte is easy too.

 

[fatty4ksu]

What makes it hard? Alot of jumpers?

 

[Chode Messiah]

yeah a lot of jumpers and switches and voltage settings to play with. Most msi's and gigabytes are good like keeleysam said.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLi is filled with lots of features (Wireless card + DPS module). MSI's not bad, but I heard they're really problematic (so for beginners it might be frustrating). If you do choose the gigabyte, I'd get an ATA harddrive as SATA is annoying to set up on that board for beginners

-The Pentium Guy

 

[Promethply]

I'd go with the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, as it's easy to setup, and is quite feature rich:

8 SATA 3GB controllers,

Dual RAID,

Dual Gigabit LAN ports,

3 PCI slots,

2 Firewire ports,

max of 10 USB2 ports,

and a coaxial/optical S/PDIF-out on its back I/O Port.

 

[Waylay00]

For a beginner, I would choose an ASUS board. MSI's and DFI's are also great, but may require a little more experience to get up and running.

 

[The Sly Syl]

I used an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe as my first board, it was honestly the easiest to setup out of all of the boards i've tried.

Second place goes to MSI.