EVGA Motherboards! WOW-

[Googer]

http://www.evga.com/articles/public.asp?AID=239

 

[MDE]

Cheap and looks decent. BFG is also doing motherboards, but theirs is Socket 939 nForce4 Ultra. Link

 

[Googer]

Are there any websites out there that have done reviews on that board?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Monarch sells both boards. They are likely very close to the nV reference designs.

 

[MDE]

The BFG is a rebadged Chaintech.

Chaintech
BFG

It probably has a better bundle and better components on board though, plus BFG's awesome tech support and warranty.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

AMDreview of BFG

 

[filterxg]

Problem is it is still EVGA made an NF3 board at a time when one can get an NF4 socket 754 board.

 

[christopherzombie]

eVGA needs to make a 939pin board. Why did the waste time/money with the budget CPU chipset?

I thought the BFG board was gonna be SLI??!!

 

[sparkz]

Budget/Cheap boards still sell the most. Not everyone has the money to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Theres plenty of socket 754 AMD and Semprons out there

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: MDE
The BFG is a rebadged Chaintech.

Chaintech
BFG

It probably has a better bundle and better components on board though, plus BFG's awesome tech support and warranty.

Hmmm..... I thought it's layout looked familiar. The chaintech board is $60 cheaper, I would not spend that extra money unless BFG was makeing the things here in the USA.

 

[Calin]

Only 2 DIMM slots? It would have been nice to have three

 

[Megatomic]

Many NF3 board revert to DDR333 if three DIMM slots are populated. That's why many companies stick with 2 slots (the third is wasted most of the time).

 

[Calin]

I have 2 DIMM slots on my mainboard, and only one is populated. I have plans for the second slot, but not for the third.
However, I might think having a "reserve" slot would be good

 

[Odeen]

Ummm... floppy connector in the MIDDLE of the motherboard? I can understand it being somewhere low, or even below the last PCI slot a-la cheapie Chaintech, since I can run a long floppy cable UNDER the motherboard and peek it out at the connector. But right under the CPU, that's wack, yo.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Monarch sells both boards. They are likely very close to the nV reference designs.

All of eVGA's video cards are of refrence design, so it would make sence that they would design a refrence motherboard.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Googer
http://www.evga.com/articles/public.asp?AID=239

That board design smacks of a Fujitsu-Siemens product. I wouldn't be looking for uber performance, it appears EVGA is shooting for rock solid stability and reliability (high MTBF), the same market targeted by companies like Fujitsu-Siemens, Intel, Tyan, and Super Micro.

 

[Interitus]

Originally posted by: Odeen
Ummm... floppy connector in the MIDDLE of the motherboard? I can understand it being somewhere low, or even below the last PCI slot a-la cheapie Chaintech, since I can run a long floppy cable UNDER the motherboard and peek it out at the connector. But right under the CPU, that's wack, yo.

And by a company whose slogan is "Intelligent Innovation" nonetheless.

 

[ChicagoPCGuy]

This eVGA board will be the next one I use for a budget PC build. I will let you all know how it goes. Appears to an incredible board for stability (although no one seems to have reviewed it yet), but then again when you are building for friends/family, you WANT rock stability. I was using Soltek, but this S754 board appears to be a better choice (although I never had trouble with the Soltek nForce3 250Gb board I used for budget builds, but eVGA has a good selling point on the polymer based capacitors.)

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: MDE
Cheap and looks decent. BFG is also doing motherboards, but theirs is Socket 939 nForce4 Ultra. Link

Yeah, some good brands gettin' in the business

 

[cheapherk]

The EVGA board is great- a stable, reliable board. I dumped my DFI NF3 LanParty UT 250BG for it. I'm not an overclocker and the DFI was overkill.