Title says it all. i spent the better part of 2 hours yesterday hunting with Shmee for a good, reasonably priced motherboard, with ICH10R, to replace my XFX 680i LT. the old board isnt recognizing his audigy 2 sound card in the last PCI slot, and the other one is blocked. it has a dead SATA port, and the integrated audio is also dead. the board itself has been the source of a great many pains in my ass in the past as well, so im looking to buy a replacement, RMA it, and sell it on craigslist.
my search criteria: a good overclocking board, with support for crossfire graphics, and a PCI-e X1 slot that isnt obstructed by a GPU with an aftermarket cooler. it needs to take DDR2, since i already have excessive amounts of it.
the problem: i keep coming back to a board which costs a bit more than i was expecting to spend. i already own this board, and it's a damn good board, but i was hoping to spend less than $100. however, once i get within $25 of it i dont see any reason to get any other board. does anyone have any recommendations that may sway my interests? im quite partial to gigabyte due to the quality of their boards, and how few customers i have had return the UD3P based on my recommendation. the 3 companies i dont like to buy from are ECS, Asus, and DFI, for reasons i dont feel a need to get into. any boards from these 3 companies will be shot down simply by being from that company. lets just say i have had some bad experiences to keep it short
my search criteria: a good overclocking board, with support for crossfire graphics, and a PCI-e X1 slot that isnt obstructed by a GPU with an aftermarket cooler. it needs to take DDR2, since i already have excessive amounts of it.
the problem: i keep coming back to a board which costs a bit more than i was expecting to spend. i already own this board, and it's a damn good board, but i was hoping to spend less than $100. however, once i get within $25 of it i dont see any reason to get any other board. does anyone have any recommendations that may sway my interests? im quite partial to gigabyte due to the quality of their boards, and how few customers i have had return the UD3P based on my recommendation. the 3 companies i dont like to buy from are ECS, Asus, and DFI, for reasons i dont feel a need to get into. any boards from these 3 companies will be shot down simply by being from that company. lets just say i have had some bad experiences to keep it short
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