some brand questions

[Sniper82]

Some friends are wanting me to recommend brands of video cards,mobo,burners,ect. Right now which is top 3 brands of each hardware?
Also which is currently the best 2-3 chipsets out on the mobo?

Video card
Burner(CD-RW)
Motherboard(brands also which is the top chipsets)
Memory
ect

 

[CurtCold]

Video ATI 9700 pro-
Nvidia GF FX


Burner--> Pioneer, Plextor--> JMO LiteOn best value

Motherboard--> Asus A7n8x NForce Chipset I like Asus, many here say the Epox Nforce board is the best. I dunno about Intel, as I don't follow their chipsets that much. I've always had good luck with Asus boards.

Memory-->Crucial, personally I haven't had problems with Kingston.

I have the 266 chipset on my mobo, and haven't had probs with that. I think anything upwards of the 133a chipsets are pretty good and stable from what I know.

 

[Alptraum]

The rankings are in no particular order

video cards

Depends on what you want to do. If its gaming/general comp stuff =

ATI
Gainward
Sapphire

Burners

Yamahe
Plextor
Lite On

Motherboards

Depends on what CPU you are going with. I have bought nothing but ASUS for the last few years. They have both AMD and Intel covered with a wide range of boards.

Memory

Samsung original
Kingston
Corsair

The 3 for each group leaves out a number of other good companies. But in general if you buy something from one of those manufacturers you can't go wrong.

 

[Sniper82]

What are the most talked about brands? The ones thats been listed? Also which is currently 2 top mobo chipsets for AMD and P4?