Stability or Proformance which is more important

[Richb1492]

Which do you feel is more important in a motherboard great proformance or rock solid stability?

 

[gaidin123]

Stability, always. If you have unstable performance it doesn't matter how fast something gets done if it's crashing or corrupts your data. That's why we all pay more money for server hardware that's often slower than our desktop machines because of the need for stability. That's why all the overclocking crowd strives to find the point where a machine performs as fast as it can while still being stable.

Gaidin

 

[furballi]

Stability!!! People hype the NF4 chipset. The performance advantage over the VIA K8T890 can only be measured with benchmark software. The VIA chipset is more compatible with most DVD burners. And no noisy chipset cooling fan. NCQ is of no benefit at this time. Same with the BS 300MB/sec hard drive bandwidth.

Noobs also jump on the firewall deal. If you have a decent router/modem, then you have a firewall. You can also use WXP's firewall or any commercial software firewall.

HEAT is the #1 enemy of stability.

 

[slag]

Stability!!!

I have a chaintech s1689 board that only overclocks to 232 mhz (hard limit) in the bios with my chip running at 2088 mhz, but, its super stable

I have a nforce 3 dfi board with chip that can do 2.2 ghz, but its unstable.

Without stability, performance is unimportant.

 

[SGtheArtist]

If its unstable you can't use it so whats the point.

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: furballi
Stability!!! People hype the NF4 chipset. The performance advantage over the VIA K8T890 can only be measured with benchmark software. The VIA chipset is more compatible with most DVD burners. And no noisy chipset cooling fan. NCQ is of no benefit at this time. Same with the BS 300MB/sec hard drive bandwidth.

Noobs also jump on the firewall deal. If you have a decent router/modem, then you have a firewall. You can also use WXP's firewall or any commercial software firewall.

HEAT is the #1 enemy of stability.

The nF4 chipset is just as stable as the VIA K8T890. The motherboards for the VIA chipset are also worse, and it doesn't support X2s. If you can't get an nF4, it's the mobos fault, or user error.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Performance is useless without stability. If it doesn't stay stable for you to use it, what's the point of it being high performance?