Quality Motherboard Brands
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ThatGuy16
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Foxconn and gigabyte are my suggestions, some asus. alot of people aren't familiar with foxconn, but they make most of the parts for other companies such as gigabyte.
If you want SLI, i would suggest a nforce 590 board. I personally own the Foxconn C51XEM2AA 590sli motherboard. But if your on a tighter budget, that would be out of the question.
If you want SLI, i would suggest a nforce 590 board. I personally own the Foxconn C51XEM2AA 590sli motherboard. But if your on a tighter budget, that would be out of the question.
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I am personally not impressed with the quality of Foxconn motherboards.
I own a Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS Socket 939 motherboard. My first Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS motherboard went bad within 45 days of use (I did not overclock anything in my system). I sent it back and got another Foxconn motherboard same model under warranty. This motherboard runs stable if I run my random access memory at PC-2700 speeds. If I bump up the speeds to PC-3200 memory speeds I get crashes.
This is definitely the last Foxconn motherboard I will own.
I own a Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS Socket 939 motherboard. My first Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS motherboard went bad within 45 days of use (I did not overclock anything in my system). I sent it back and got another Foxconn motherboard same model under warranty. This motherboard runs stable if I run my random access memory at PC-2700 speeds. If I bump up the speeds to PC-3200 memory speeds I get crashes.
This is definitely the last Foxconn motherboard I will own.
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My next motherboard will likely be an ASUS, Gigabyte or an MSI.
I am building a completely new rig soon and would like to hear some suggestions on quality mobo BRANDS for Athlon processors. I have heard sooooo many different things about many brands and would like to know the bottom line for some of these. Thanks
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Gigabyte-Asus and DFI. But this late in the game instead of a AM2 board I would get a AM2+ board. It has Hypertransport 3.0- PCIe 2.0- Support for DDR2 1066- You can control the voltage and MHZ separate for each core on the Phenom. Better upgrade path if you upgrade to the Phenom later on.
Where did you hear they make stuff for Gigabyte, I thought I knew all the companys they made stuff for but never heard of them making anything for Gigabyte. Link please.
Gigabyte boards are good, Asus are good boards too just a little picky with ram, like DFI boards great overclockers, dont care much for MSI boards kinda fall in the Abit category buggie all the way around. But I do like MSI video cards had good luck with them.