What is the best motherboard that is not ASUS and not baised on VIA??

[Techno]

Hello,

I have had over 4 motherboards in the past month that all sucked. Had the 3 asus and 1 abit and all were based on VIA.

I'll give you the specs of my machine i been "trying" to build and i need to know the best motherboard for it.

P3 700e (socket)
256MB PC133
Hercules (geforce 1) DDR-DVI
Promise RAID controller
2 IBM HDD's
SBLive!
Zoom Modem
blah blah lbha

I want my processor to clock at 933Mhz
I am not sure if video card can run at 89Mhz (if BX is the option)

 

[Durron]

The Soyo 6BA+IV is a very good quality BX board. You'll have to get a slocket adapter for that 700e most likely.

-Durron

 

[jose]

Get a BX Asus mobo. check my specs.

the hardest time I had w/ my system was buying the Prophet2
it was backordered.

But I'm having problems w/ Diablo2, but It's a driver issue.

I run Unix all day long, no lockups.

good luck.
Jose

 

[compuwiz1]

I have a hard time believing that all 4 "sucked". RTFM! Maybe, just maybe, it is the person putting the system together that is having the problems. Asus, MSI and Soyo are all great products, but it won't matter what you get if you don't get a clue what you're doing. yes, maybe that sounds harsh, but to say that Asus and VIA chipsets are bad, is an ill founded blanket statement at best.

 

[Ulysses]

Get the new ASUS CUSL2, based on the new Intel 815E chipset.

Or get the MSI/Microstar BX Master, based on the Intel 440Bx chipset.

 

[Painman]

I like the CUBX too overall. At 140 MHz it has a little trouble upon cold-booting, sometimes it hangs or doesn't count all of my RAM, but it usually warm boots fine. Strange, but I run it at 140 anyway and once you're in Windows it is stable. At 133 MHz it has no problems.

-Pain

 

[Techno]

Well, seeing is believing compuwiz1

ASUS CUV4X: was not compatible w/ my 256MB of HSDRAM, During installing Win98, and Win2000 it quit during the middle of it telling me "Can't Complete *Complete Memory Dump*"

Called up the company and they admited the board was bad because they got a bad batch

ASUS P3V4X: Hard Drive connectors were broken

3rd ASUS (P3V4X replacement): had large crack in the board

Abit VH6: The ATX Power connector is broken. Won't turn on. Yet my old Aopen AX6BC Pro turns on just fine.

 

[compuwiz1]

Techno those are not the norm and do not make any of them a bad product.

 

[TechieZero]

Techno,

You got some bad luck man...Go find a Priest/Shaman or something.