A8S-X Motherboard gets no mention?

A8S-X Motherboard seems to not be mentioned much in here.
Is it because the board is error free, not many were sold, or people
just hate the things?

A8S-X Motherboard was cheap, perhaps I should have added $75 and went
for a better board?

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:15:16 -0400, (Paul) wrote:

In article , Bob Brown
wrote:

A8S-X Motherboard seems to not be mentioned much in here.
Is it because the board is error free, not many were sold, or people
just hate the things?

A8S-X Motherboard was cheap, perhaps I should have added $75 and went
for a better board?

There are only 38 threads in the Asus-hosted forums:

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...age=1&count=38

Other boards have hundreds or thousands of threads.

I would say it isn't a popular board. Depending on your level of
skill, this may be an issue or not be an issue. If you are a
good debugger of problems on your own, there is no need to be
concerned with the popularity of a motherboard. If every
computer build you do, is one problem after another, and you
need a lot of help from newsgroups or forums, then owning
an unpopular board is a liability.

Remember that SIS chipsets are used in commodity computers from
HP, Dell, Gateway and the like. They would not use chipsets that
are broken, because the warranty returns would kill all their
profit. I don't see a particular reason to fear the SIS chipsets,
as long as you don't see any recurring problem reports.

You can also get some feedback here. Note that, some whiners
who file reports here, file multiple reports about their
experience. You should be able to detect which people repeated
their review, for whatever reason. The comments here, could be
about the shipping BIOS version, and what processors it supports.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRa...82E16813131525

That is why there is this page. The CPUsupport page allows you to
see which BIOS release is required to run a given version of
processor. This frame is for A8S-X:

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...=en-us&cache=1

In the returned results, BIOS 0601 is sufficient for all processors
except an FX-60.

Athlon 64 FX-60 (rev.E6) (Socket939) ALL 0706

The 0601 BIOS was released Nov10/2005, so at least that BIOS version
should be shipped with the motherboard, if you buy from a high
volume retailer.

Paul

Thanks paul!