not neccessary true, as a lot of small company are trying to cut down costs, so they might not use the best components and also their support sometimes sucks.
Truedat... So a small company must be really exceptional to break through into the mindset of the enthusiast community.
Another thing is that larger companies will have a more refined automation for building hardware. Not to mention better equipped...
although im a ABIT USer... but for good OC result n lot of choices... i go for DFI. for games rigs.. although im fancy Abit AN8 Fatality, but still i goes for DFI Lanparty.. with same price with my AI7, my fren rigs is the best with Lan Party...
Not overclocking first 3. ASUS MSI DFI where Gigabyte goes? DFI MSI ASUS(weak ram voltage but enough for TCCD) where ABIT goes?
Since the days of the Pentium 166MMX, I've always chosen Asus and none of them have ever betrayed me. Me no gamer, run everything in standard form, latest now with a Asus A7N8X-Deluxe fitted with a AMD Athlon 2600+XP Barton mildly overclocked to 2800 Never misbehaved and I could say 100% stability!. I guess I'll still stick with Asus in future.
an asus a8n-sli just died here @my working place this afternoon after running an X2 4800+ for just 40mins it was running fine until I rebooted the machine to prepare for more benchie, and it just refused to wake up what a coincidence..when u mentioned stability and reliability...shit just happened
Working on Asus- and org. Intel-mobos straight from the beginning and there's no reason to take action. ^^
Mine's not--or, rather, it's not working very well with my ATI 9600 video card. If you do a search, you'll find people all over the web reporting problems with this mobo/card combination (and ATI 9800s too). The trouble seems to be with the VIA chipset on the A8V (everyone seems to agree that it's not AVI's fault), but VIA has refused to release new drivers to take care of the problem. On some of the sites I visited while trying to figure out why my system wouldn't work, several different posters on different forums badmouthed VIA for consistently releasing "buggy hardware." I don't know whether or not there's any truth to the accusation (my new system is the first one I've built myself, so I don't have much real tinkering experience), but this particular issue certainly has me irritated. --Mike
@A8V-issue: It's all about SP2 and it's integrated AGP-drivers. You just have to uninstall VIAs (Hyperion) AGP-driver and use the SP2-driver instead. And sure it's VIAs fault, but "only" software-based. ^^
Nope, I'm not running XP. What I wanted to do was dual-boot Win2000 and Win98, but even with several versions of ATI's win98 drivers, nothing would get the card to work with Win98 (I tried both old and new VIA 4-in-1's). WTH do I want to run Win98? Because I have a very expensive light-pen that will only run under win98 or NT4--the company went under, so there were never updated drivers for later OSs. (Go ahead, do a search for light-pens--you'll find that any of them worth having cost around $500 or more. See why I have to run Win98?) At this point I think I may well have to just take the card back...
Oh, I see. ^^ Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I do remember reading that the KT800pro is not fully compatible to Win9x anymore ... Easy, 'cause there is no AGP-driver in the most recent versions of Hyperion.
I think the best board out there is the DFI SLI (though it takes a lot of voltage for the processor overclocking). I also recommend ASUS. But to me the most stable is the MSI boards. I have always found them to be the most reliable. Though ASUS boards performs great, but they also tend to give numerous wierd problems initially. I am planning to get an MSI K8N Diamond very shortly. They have the best compatibility with the other computer peripherals than any other board. DFI can be counted here as well. For overclocking DFI will counted as the best and as far as reliability and compatibility goes I vote for MSI.
I think that if you're going for overclocking, one should choose DFI without any dought. If you want the most respectable company, you should go for Asus. Man, I think the latest DFI mobos are awesome. Damn , I wish I had the money to buy the DFI NF4 SLI-DR.
