BIOSTAR M7VIT

[Idoxash]

Hello, I need cheap mobo but it has to be around the 60 US dollar rang and I would love for it to have very nice onboard sound. So I was thinking about a M7VIT from Biostar. Now it's not the only one I'm looking at- I'm also looking at some mobos by VIA but there for the P4 and while I can go that rout to cause I hear that thoes mobos are of high qul! I would love to keep it with the AMD. I don't care for a lot of features, OC, or even the fastest board around... What I want to know is this Biostar a good mobo? Do they have a lot of hardware probs- DOA, bios, ect.? I looked around the forums and seen where some ppl pointed toward a MSI mobo but after I did some looking I found some Hardware probs that some of their boards has. If anyone know of another mobo that kicks arse and don't have a lot of probs any help would be kewl... I been thinking on another system upgrd for over a month now it's starting to kill me ol head.

--Idoxash

 

[gaidin123]

If your budget is only up to $60 then you will either have to buy a budget motherboard (Biostar, ECS, PC Chips, some MSI) or grab a refurbished higher end board. As far as budget boards go, several of the Biostar AMD based ones seem to be good buys. Check out the buyer reviews on newegg for the board(s) you are looking at. I wouldn't take them as seriously as specific forum posts here but they can give a decent indication on whether a board is a piece of trash or not.

The Asus A7N266-VM nForce1 board can be had at Newegg for right around $70 and is a quality motherboard that many people have been happy with.

Depending on what kind of system you have now you may need to buy new RAM and/or CPU. Several of the ECS and Biostar ones let you use older SDRAM or newer DDR RAM but it's a fairly uncommon feature as the performance benefits you would get from the newer system get somewhat negated by using old, slow memory on it.

Gaidin

 

[Idoxash]

Really I can spend 300 bucks on a mobo if i wanted to- but I already have a nice system and just needed another one to replace on of my older ones. I already delt with that one nforce by asuse and while it was qul in the fact that it still runs I had some bad probs with the audio on it. not only that for some odd reason it causes this odd thing to run in the background that eats 80% of my cpu and I mean that real use of my cpu it cut my seti and my ways of playing games down so bad I finaly got rid of it. Thanks for the reply thoe I think I check out that biostar I herd some good things on there recent boards around the net of late.

--Idoxash