whats the catch?

[tayla13]

hey,

I have been looking for a mobo for a while now, and for my money i found a decent one for around 45 quid ($90):

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...iew.aspx?ProductID=2331&ModelName=GA-945GM-S2

I was just browsing and suddenly found this:

http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=3313&cat=0&page=1

why is this so cheap for an apparantly well spec'ed board that supports QUAD core?

tayla13

 

[The_Other_One]

Cheaper brand, cheaper chipset, combo board(eh, I just don't like those)

Are you sure the other doesn't support quad core? I don't know too much about the chipsets and all, but sometimes a simple bios update will allow it. Back when the Athlon X2's came out, not many boards specified they were supported at first, but basically all S939 boards support Athlon X2s

 

[tayla13]

have no idea, due to hardware specifications on the gigabyte board it shud be capable, but apparantly the bios is very sparse and there are no overclocking features, so i have no idea also what do you mean by combo board?

 

[The_Other_One]

Well I can't tell you too much about the boards, you just need to look for specs and benchmarks. I just know the Asrock uses a VIA chipset which isn't very popular today.

As for combo board, the Asrock uses AGP and PCI Express as well as DDR and DDR2 RAM.