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motherboard for gaming question
first off i know this a widely asked question about motherboards,and you
can only spend so much time googling a subject before getting frustrated and bored.so iam sorry in advance for asking a question that has been asked over and over. like i said iam building a computer strictly for games.i plan on using a p4 3.2 or 3.4,1 gig or more of ram.there will be some networking involved because this comp will not touch the internet.it will be connected to another comp that will do all the upgrading.then files transfered over. the motherboards iam trying to decide between are the abit IC7-max3 and the asus p4c800-edeluxe.i have been doing online research for about a month and i cannot decide.am i overlooking a board that may be better.like i said this is strictly for games.i do not know how to overclock, so that will not affect my decision.thanks in advance. |
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bam wrote:
first off i know this a widely asked question about motherboards,and you can only spend so much time googling a subject before getting frustrated and bored.so iam sorry in advance for asking a question that has been asked over and over. like i said iam building a computer strictly for games.i plan on using a p4 3.2 or 3.4,1 gig or more of ram.there will be some networking involved because this comp will not touch the internet.it will be connected to another comp that will do all the upgrading.then files transfered over. the motherboards iam trying to decide between are the abit IC7-max3 and the asus p4c800-edeluxe.i have been doing online research for about a month and i cannot decide.am i overlooking a board that may be better.like i said this is strictly for games.i do not know how to overclock, so that will not affect my decision.thanks in advance. Forget Abit. ASUS make the most rock-solid boards in the known Universe. Go with the ASUS. |
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"bam" wrote in message ... first off i know this a widely asked question about motherboards,and you can only spend so much time googling a subject before getting frustrated and bored.so iam sorry in advance for asking a question that has been asked over and over. like i said iam building a computer strictly for games.i plan on using a p4 3.2 or 3.4,1 gig or more of ram.there will be some networking involved because this comp will not touch the internet.it will be connected to another comp that will do all the upgrading.then files transfered over. the motherboards iam trying to decide between are the abit IC7-max3 and the asus p4c800-edeluxe.i have been doing online research for about a month and i cannot decide.am i overlooking a board that may be better.like i said this is strictly for games.i do not know how to overclock, so that will not affect my decision.thanks in advance. I have had good luck with tha Abit board, I am running it in one of my systems and 2 of my friends run it. No problems whatsoever, I love it. |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:28:35 -0600, "Chris Stolworthy"
wrote: I have had good luck with tha Abit board, I am running it in one of my systems and 2 of my friends run it. No problems whatsoever, I love it. I like both and Ive been ****ed off at both. Ive had problems with both brands the last few years. In the OLD days when I had Intel stuff - never ever had a MB problem. But the last few years there were VIA chipset problems I had to work around . And then hardware problems. Ive probably had more problems with ABITs but switched to abit after having a hardware problem on my ASUS that drove me nuts. Im pretty sure it was the fan on the northbridge now. I RMAd one board after mysterious lockups and they were testy. It was the first one Id ever done. Then they sent me another one that LOCKED UP ! Not as bad but it still did it. I traced it finally to an intermittently working fan on the northbridge. I replaced that fan several times and had to use thermal tape. It kept coming back and I finally out of desperation tried superglue and thermal paste to apply the fan - a big graphics card fan. No problems since then. The initial problem was the fan and then it was the thermal tape. Im glad they have passive cooling now with just a big heatsink instead of the little bitty cheapo fans which they stick on in some weird way that you cant replace. Abit - Ive owned several that seemed to have big problems after about a year or so just like the ASUS. But there was no easy fix with the Abits. There was the story about bad caps which seemed to affect Abits the most. Some guy was offering to replace them for a fee in the Abit group. I assume they fixed that since then so they probably are OK now. Eventhough Ive had problems with 3 boards - the last one was a KT333 board which I RMAd and got a replacement which like the ASUS also still had problems, mysterious lockups only on the highpoint controller which I think I traced to drivers and the problem still seems to be there---- the thing about abit is - if you do have problems they are very very responsive unlike ASUS. So I probably wouldnt mind getting either one at this point. I dont use the highpoint "extra" IDE connections now, just use the first two channels and use it as a second PC. |
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thank you for the help.it sounds kind of like a coin flip.
" wrote in message ... On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:28:35 -0600, "Chris Stolworthy" wrote: I have had good luck with tha Abit board, I am running it in one of my systems and 2 of my friends run it. No problems whatsoever, I love it. I like both and Ive been ****ed off at both. Ive had problems with both brands the last few years. In the OLD days when I had Intel stuff - never ever had a MB problem. But the last few years there were VIA chipset problems I had to work around . And then hardware problems. Ive probably had more problems with ABITs but switched to abit after having a hardware problem on my ASUS that drove me nuts. Im pretty sure it was the fan on the northbridge now. I RMAd one board after mysterious lockups and they were testy. It was the first one Id ever done. Then they sent me another one that LOCKED UP ! Not as bad but it still did it. I traced it finally to an intermittently working fan on the northbridge. I replaced that fan several times and had to use thermal tape. It kept coming back and I finally out of desperation tried superglue and thermal paste to apply the fan - a big graphics card fan. No problems since then. The initial problem was the fan and then it was the thermal tape. Im glad they have passive cooling now with just a big heatsink instead of the little bitty cheapo fans which they stick on in some weird way that you cant replace. Abit - Ive owned several that seemed to have big problems after about a year or so just like the ASUS. But there was no easy fix with the Abits. There was the story about bad caps which seemed to affect Abits the most. Some guy was offering to replace them for a fee in the Abit group. I assume they fixed that since then so they probably are OK now. Eventhough Ive had problems with 3 boards - the last one was a KT333 board which I RMAd and got a replacement which like the ASUS also still had problems, mysterious lockups only on the highpoint controller which I think I traced to drivers and the problem still seems to be there---- the thing about abit is - if you do have problems they are very very responsive unlike ASUS. So I probably wouldnt mind getting either one at this point. I dont use the highpoint "extra" IDE connections now, just use the first two channels and use it as a second PC. |
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"Chris Stolworthy" wrote in message ... "bam" wrote in message ... first off i know this a widely asked question about motherboards,and you can only spend so much time googling a subject before getting frustrated and bored.so iam sorry in advance for asking a question that has been asked over and over. like i said iam building a computer strictly for games.i plan on using a p4 3.2 or 3.4,1 gig or more of ram.there will be some networking involved because this comp will not touch the internet.it will be connected to another comp that will do all the upgrading.then files transfered over. the motherboards iam trying to decide between are the abit IC7-max3 and the asus p4c800-edeluxe.i have been doing online research for about a month and i cannot decide.am i overlooking a board that may be better.like i said this is strictly for games.i do not know how to overclock, so that will not affect my decision.thanks in advance. I have had good luck with tha Abit board, I am running it in one of my systems and 2 of my friends run it. No problems whatsoever, I love it. Can I ask if boards from Gigabyte are considered to be of the same quality as Asus & Abit ? |
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