Recommended Motherboard Brands For Amd

[Xidarian]

I am upgrading a computer by putting a new motherboard and processor in it and i am looking for recommendations on brands of motherboards. I only have about 50-80 bucks to spend on a socket A motherboard.

 

[OLtimrNewbie]

I like ASUS. Good designs and quality; and service issues get dealt with reasonably quickly. I've also used MSI. MSI was a good product a few years back; but lately they've been less than perfect. Service also suffers. I've not tried any other brands so can't comment; but will say this. "You get what you pay for" Go cheap and maybe you'll wish you didn't.

 

[gwai lo]

I'd go with Asus or Abit

 

[BW86]

Abit nf7-s

 

[Concillian]

If you want soundstorm Abit NF7-s or DFI Infinity.

If you don't want soundstorm, Shuttle AN35N Ultra

 

[yezhou]

My vote is for Asus as well.

 

[asm0deus]

asus & shuttle = A+++

if your gonna overclock though, find one with a pci/agp lock, anyone know of any for socket a?

 

[jipe]

I can second most of the recommendations above, but if you're looking for something cheap, you might also want to consider Asrock (especially the K7S8X, which is fairly basic in features, but also cheap and stable).

One brand you should *not* consider is ECS / PC Chips. I've had nothing but trouble with their boards - everything from random reboots to outright failure.

 

[mdcrab]

Soltek also makes some nice mobos.
I have two of the SL-75FRN2-RL .
Soltek mobos at Newegg

I recently bought an ASRock K7V88 RAID (still in the mail)
This board has a lot of features for the $48. From what I understand ASRock was spun off of Asus or by some engineers from Asus, who wanted to make low cost, high value mobos. This particular board has 6 USB 2.o ports on back I/O plus a header for 2 more, RAID, 2 SATA channels, LAN, and more. It only has one fan header though.
ASRock mobos at Newegg

mdcrab

 

[gwai lo]

NF7-S Revision 2 :thumbsup: pretty much the best oc'ing board for socket A

 

[Manzelle]

Abit NF7-S v2 / Epox 8RDA6+ / Epox 8RDA3+

 

[mikeford]

Do you already have a CPU? If not I don't see how people can ignore the bang/buck of the Fry's ECS/AMD combos, which is $70 for a boxed with fan and 3 year warranty Sempron 2500+ and a ECS N2U400 motherboard that includes USB 2.0, 10/100 lan, and decent builtin sound.

My question to you would be first, what kind of motherboard will your existing case, power supply, and memory support?

 

[Xidarian]

Thanks for all your help. I have decided to order the shuttle an35n ultra mobo because of the price.