What motherboard do you guys think was the best ever released (to the general public)? I mean, the most stable, most tweakable, most feature filled... I mean the best.
The best motherboard ever created?
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The best one I've dealt with was my old Asus P2B.
Damn stable, reliable, and just generally great, had no big drawbacks or anything.
Not as tweakable as some mobos of the same time, but it wasn't very limited either, it's still running my 300A@450 to this day.
Damn stable, reliable, and just generally great, had no big drawbacks or anything.
Not as tweakable as some mobos of the same time, but it wasn't very limited either, it's still running my 300A@450 to this day.
The P4B533 was my favorite. Although, I have no complaints about my P4B533-V, either. I guess the "-V" just doesn't feel as fun, since I got this 2.8ghz and have no urge to overclock like I did with my 1.6a and 1.8a on my P4B533.
That's certainly a candidate based on features, but I don't think I've ever seen so many reports about quality problems(various RAM problems specifically) with one single mobo.
Yeah, I guess "best" isn't what the BH6 was. Maybe "most significant" would be a better description. Before the BH6, overclocking was done by only the geekiest of geeks. But the BH6 ushered in a whole new era of 50% overclocks acheivable by almost anyone who could spell "overclock"
ECS K7S5A. Because it singlehandedly brought high motherboard prices to their knees. Mobo companies simply couldn't charge much over $100 anymore. Cept Asus but even they had to come out with value motherboards.
Although I like your suggestion, it was not the best motherboard ever created.
There was an Asus a while ago with black PCB, lots of interesting features, and a platinum (plated, that is) plate on it, saying that it was proudly created for power users.
Forgot what it was exactly. Maybe someone else remembers.
I was looking at it from a different angle.
Probably from your angle it would be the Asus P2B BX motherboard. Or wasn't there a P3B?
Probably from your angle it would be the Asus P2B BX motherboard. Or wasn't there a P3B?
Originally posted by: Workin'
Yeah, I guess "best" isn't what the BH6 was. Maybe "most significant" would be a better description. Before the BH6, overclocking was done by only the geekiest of geeks. But the BH6 ushered in a whole new era of 50% overclocks acheivable by almost anyone who could spell "overclock"
Bah, I overclocked my P90 to 100 MHz on an old piece of junk SiS based Asus mobo back in the day, and I don't even considder myself a geek today, much less back then
heat23
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Abit BH6 - still powering my 2 kids machines with a Pentium III 1GHz and Celery 566@850 - both machines play a respectable game of Jedi Knight II and Mechwarrior IV. Gotta love that board!!
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Without a doubt, the Tyan Tiger MP (Dual Athlon based on the 760MP chipset). My reason for picking this as the most significant motherboard to be released:
Until the release of this motherboard, and the cpu of course, AMD garnered little market share except for the value pc market. The value pc market is a commodity market, there isnt a lot of money to be made. With this motherboard being widelyavailable and cheap, it boosted AMD into the Workstation/Server market almost overnight, grabbing business from Intel. This promotes competition and thus you see Intel slashing prices on their Xeon line just to stay competitive. Its a WIN/WIN situation.
Until the release of this motherboard, and the cpu of course, AMD garnered little market share except for the value pc market. The value pc market is a commodity market, there isnt a lot of money to be made. With this motherboard being widelyavailable and cheap, it boosted AMD into the Workstation/Server market almost overnight, grabbing business from Intel. This promotes competition and thus you see Intel slashing prices on their Xeon line just to stay competitive. Its a WIN/WIN situation.
Intel-made BX boards. All the major OEM's had them from Gateway to Dell. They are bullet-proof, gimmic free boards that got the job done well and reliably.
ANYTHING -BX
INFO: Had an ASUS P2B-F and it was FLAWLESS for YEARS untill it caught fire....(yeah it really did catch fire)
INFO: Had an ASUS P2B-F and it was FLAWLESS for YEARS untill it caught fire....(yeah it really did catch fire)
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