Biostar M7VIP

[fstreed]

I want to upgrade and I like the price of the Biostar M7VIP. I realize it is not up to Nvidia Nforce2 standards, it is also not up to the Nforce2 price, but overall is it a good board? I have never used a Biostar board and was wondering about the quality, reviews of the board don't turn up any problems. Anyone have any experience with it or other Biostar MoBos? After getting burned on a couple of cheapo boards a few years ago I am a little nervous about cheap brands. I won't be overclocking. I will go with a XP2100 CPU, Maxtor 7200RPM ATA133 HDD, one stick of 512 Kingston HyperX PC-3000 DDR, nothing fancy.

 

[bambam]

I am also thinking about on of these to replace an ever troublesome K7S5A . I will be using a Duron 950 . Although stability and price are my main concerns, I am curious is there there any OC possibilities with this one ? -thanks

 

[fstreed]

OK, I decided against the Biostar and splurged on one of them Nforce2 boards, the MSI K7N2-L. I usually run a generation or two behind what's currently out there because that is where the best deals are. And by the time I upgrade what I am upgrading from is really obsolete so when I upgrade to last years technology it is all new and wonderful to me, just as it was to everyone else just a few short months ago. But this time I am going all out, going to DDR instead of my well used old PC133 memory, even have a current ATA133 7200 Maxtor HDD. I have a MSI board in another computer that I have been using for over a year and it has been a good one, I don't know much about Biostar and I know you sometimes get what you pay for.

But I still wonder how that Biostar would have been. For what I paid for the MSI MoBo-XP2100 CPU-junk throw away fan combo I could have bought a Biostar barebones system with case and PSU and had enough left over for a good fan.