----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:15
PM
Subject: RE: [Cialug] motherboard
I've been ASUS only for awhile now. There is an
anandtech review of 11 motherboards from about three years ago wherein ASUS,
MSI, and IWill were the only ones that didn't crash when put under a 24 hour
stress test:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1489
I've had an MSI go bad on me, and I've seen Biostar do the
same for a friend. Generally, the less capacitors on a mobo the better
engineered it is. Intel and ASUS seem to follow this rule.
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From:
tim_linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tim_linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:43 AM
To: cialug@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Cialug]
motherboard
All this talk of upgrading has me looking too. I looked
at newegg.com (a place
I've done business with before,
and recommend them), and they have what looks
like the
Asus board Dave C. mentioned for $70. They also have an XP-2100+
(Thoroughbred core) for $93 w/o heatsink & fan, or $102
with. Both come with
free shipping. So
shipped, I could get a new mobo and processor/heatsink/fan
combo for $172, shipped. Has anyone seen any better
prices?
I've never used Asus motherboards, I've always gone with DIT
specials (Soyo, and
Biostar). I've heard good
things about them, anyone have personal experience?
--
Tim W.
>
> That looks nice. What type of fan do I need for this?
> >
>
> A
good one. You don't want an Athlon to overheat... they'll cook in a
> few seconds. The Athlon XP's run a little cooler
because they have a
> reduced die size.
>
> The Shuttle boxes have a
heat-pipe cooling system that's really
> impressive
- but that's specific to the mini shuttle xpc box.
>
> Some people I've talked to have been
using the new "Zalman" (or is it
> "Zahlman") type
coolers, and are happy with those.
>
> -dc
>
>
>
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