recommend 865 based motherboard?

[buleyb]

I'm been trying to narrow this down...

people seem to hate the MSI boards, ASUS I have liked for a long time, but they don't use the CSA bus (correct?) and neither does ABIT (correct?)

I'm looking for something with GbE over CSA, 'PAT' (or whatever moniker is used), in a solid 865 board. O/Cing not a must, but I'd like to play

ideas?

Sidepoint: This new forum is good, but the official threads seem too long to be useful most of the time

 

[klc314]

 

[wicktron]

AFAIK, the Abit IS7-G uses the CSA GB-Lan

 

[klc314]

Well, that was a stupid mistake, but you get to see my icon twice. I would recommend the Asus, if only because I've been so impressed with mine. P4P800D, 2 Seagate SATA drives, and rock solid. I've played with the overclocking options a little, actually have it running nicely at 3 gig (2.4C), but have to do a lot more exploring regarding memory timings and so forth. I'm a lot more interested in reliability and solidity than every last ounce of performance, though I'm sure I could get it by educating myself a little more. The mobo has been impressive from the time I opened the box to now, with each bit of work assembling working right and well the first time. The OS installation was smooth, though I've never worked with SATA RAID before, and the drivers were no problem, it's just a well done package. It's been a while since I've liked a mobo this much.