Switching mobo maybe?

[CheerUpEmoKid]

CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $83
This is the mobo i have in my list.

EPoX EP-9NPA+Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $95
This is the mobo i might switch to

The EPoX mobo comes as a combo with the processor im buying. i need to know if i should stick with the chaintech or ditch it and go with the epox. what do you guys think? heres my list of parts if you need it

Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450Watt SmartPower 2.0 ATX 12V V2.0 for AMD & Intel systems Power Supply - Retail
$119.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823A 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
$120.74

CHAINTECH VNF4/Ultra Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
$83

SAPPHIRE Radeon X800 100109-BL Video Card - OEM
$178.50

Creative SBS350 2.1 Speaker - Retail
$28

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory - Retail
$100.83

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor - Retail
$146

NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A - Retail
$47

NEC Black Internal Floppy Drive Model FD1231H-302 - OEM
$11

 

[Fresh Daemon]

Epox is definitely a better mobo than Chaintech. Go for it.

 

[redhatlinux]

It REALLY is unfair to say as a general statement that 1 mobo manufacturer is better than another as a blanket statement.
I'll give you a great example. I spend time with a design group of guys that have certain manufactures build mobos . IWILL was one of them and used one of their mobos. Left town for a couple of years to do other 'stuff' and found out that IWILL was supplying obviously reworked (not always obvious to the non-engineer) mobos. They developed a 'so what attitude' so they were dropped. ABIT at one time had such bad product, not bad from the design point but really bad manufacturing,testing and component sourcing. They also had an attitude that theywouldn't even look at a bad mobo, under warranty without a $25.00 fee. I am sure this has changed.
Gigabyte remains one the companies, together with ASUS and now ABIT that offer great innovation, good design and quality products, pretty much consistently.


2 cents from a very old timer.

 

[CheerUpEmoKid]

so the epox? yeah thats what i was thinking...another thing i wanted to ask about is my case. someone reccomended going with an antec 3000blk and fortron source 450W PSU.
did he mean antec slk3000-b? if so, would the 3000-b and fortron source 450W be better than going with the sonata II? theyre both 450W but the 3000-b and fortron is a little cheaper

 

[Muscles]

Well I thought I just read somewhere that Chaintech is leaving the motherboard business so if thats true I wouldn't buy one of their motherboards because it will have less support.

 

[Muscles]

Oh here's the link I read about Chaintech.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050908PR206.html

I've personally had issues with Epox boards in the past so I refuse to buy from them. Boards manufacturers I've used and never had issues with: Asus, MSI, and Soltek