BIOSTAR "NF4UL-A9" NVIDIA NForce4 Chipset Motherboard!!

[gate1975mlm]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=13-138-249&DEPA=1
How is this board?

 

[Fern]

It's funny, there are now about three threads asking the same question about this mobo. Nobody seems to have one yet. Consider this a bump for yours.

Fern

 

[knothead34]

if i were you i would stick with asus.....abit.......gigabyte.....dfi.....or msi. but thats just me.

 

[mdcrab]

Since Newegg is currently offering this mobo for $80, I found this review at Dreamware Computers. Looks like ther are a few compromises to allow use of eithe a 8x AGP or PCI-e graphics card, but it does provide an upgrade path.

mdcrab

 

[will889]

I would go with either of the other top tier boards too. Even though Biostar tends to be the most reliable. The new anand tect that included the Biostar NF4 was fair compared to the rest of the boards (towards the bottom though) but that could have just been the bios it was running and a default timing that was picked up by the board initially. It can be just one setting in paticular sometimes.

 

[crimson117]

http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=7

The Biostar lags slightly behind the pack when using PCI-E, and totally sucks with XGP (AGP-compatible slot): http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=21

For a given card, AGP 8x is normally equal in performance to PCI-E, but this XGP thing is nowhere near as fast as true AGP 8x.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: crimson117
http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=7

The Biostar lags slightly behind the pack when using PCI-E, and totally sucks with XGP (AGP-compatible slot): http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2465&p=21

For a given card, AGP 8x is normally equal in performance to PCI-E, but this XGP thing is nowhere near as fast as true AGP 8x.

Thanks for the links! :thumbsup: