Top 3 Motherboards you ever had

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yelo333

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The only two boards I've _really_ liked:

1. Abit NF7 ... A bit of trouble with the NB fan, but the usual zalman heatsink job cleaned that up real fast. Has been stable, even wading through it's current ram mess(1 PC2100 kingston value, 1 PC2700 spectec, 1 PC3200 rosewill)
2. Asus SP97-V ... Socket 7, Rock solid, soon to be installed as a router for my home network. Integrated video faster then some PCI cards. All the normal OC goodies for it's time, like ram timings, undocumented jumper positions, etc. Even integrated USB and IR...ATX and AT form factors. Tested and works with both, Even in it's current hybrid state of AT case with ATX PSU (reset button is power switch). Too bad it's only got ATA33...
 

Concillian

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May 26, 2004
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1) Abit BM6 (just for the name alone... Indeed this is my 6th BM of the week)
2) ASUS Pentium board whose designator I have long forgotten. It may have even been a 486 board.
3) DFI LP UT NF4-D
 

PClark99

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Jan 12, 2000
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Abit BH6

Asus P4C800E Deluxe

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum

MSI K8N Neo4 SLI....oh wait thats 4.
 
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Abit BE6- On right now. P3- 650, Quake II and Q3, UT, CMR2, Revolt, AOEII
Abit BE6II - Next to it's little bro. Running a P3-850. Wifes MS Office machine
Abit IC7- Main game box with a P4 2.8c@3.2ghz, 1gig Mushkin, 6600GT etc.
I like Abits:D
 

imported_Alwyn

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Apr 10, 2005
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Asus P/I XP55T2P4 - An old HX board running since '96, now on my retro gaming system...
Abit BE6 - Trusty mb
Intel D815EEA - Another faithfull servant
 

Bartokomus

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Mar 15, 2002
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1) P4C800-E- utterly amazing on the O/C; almost unbreakable
2) Tyan "Thunder" s2462; king of all inhouse Athlon MP dualie boards
3) A7V266-C- i built over a 100 of them; they took anything you threw at them and kept running

 

uOpt

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Oct 19, 2004
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Gigabyte 586DX (dual Pentium/Pentium-MMX).

Asus P2B (P3B lasted warranty plus one day :disgust: ). Could even get a 1300 Celeron into the P2B via powerleap.

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, except for an occasional cold boot overclocking complaint.
 

Binky

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Oct 9, 1999
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Asus CUSL2

This thing just goes and goes. It's had the same P3-600 overclocked to 933mhz for years.
 

Promethply

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(only in chronological order)

1) ABIT BX6
2) ASUS CUBX
3) ASUS A8N-SLI -- so far OC quite well, and runs stably, just like the CUBX.
 

Golgatha

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1) ASUS P3V8X - The only good VIA motherboard I've every laid hands on. Stable and ran my Coppermine 700@933Mhz for quite some time. Ran 1GB (4x256MB) of SDRAM with ease too.

2) Abit IC7 with Zalman northbridge heatsink - Dropped everything from a 1.8Ghz Northwood, all the way up to a 3.2EE before retiring this bad boy. Probably the longest resident motherboard I've ever used. The original northbridge fan died within a month, so I had to AS5 epoxy a Zalman passive northbridge heatsink to it.

3) Hopefully my new GIGABYTE GA-8I955X Royal - Running a 3.6 Prescott@3.73 on 1066Mhz FSB. I love the ability to set the multiplier at 14x and the ECC RAM function doesn't seem to incur any type of performance hit. Lots of great extras with this board and all manufacturers should include the metal clippy SATA cables. Those suckers will never slip off.