i want to build a pc, so im wondering how do i choose a good motherboard? i go to this site newegg.com and i see they have a lot of variety so the question is which one to buy. can anyone recomend me a build thats less than 1000us dollars. the most important thing is that i want to be able to watch tv on my computer and record live tv.thanks.
well, know one thing, you might be considering the Radeon X1900 All-In-Wonder Video card. A great motherboard would be the A8N-SLI deluxe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517 PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817182031 CPU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003 HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144309
Get info from Newegg but I strongly discourage buying from them, as well as Asus. Had lots of problems here - that is the only vendor and manufacturer, respectively, I DON'T recommend. Besides, that board doesn't even have SATA-II and is a couple bucks cheaper at Mwave. The first mobo in the links below is a good mobo if you really want SLi. Otherwise, other Abit, MSI, Biostar etc. boards will work well. I like the Abit KN8 or AN8. http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=BA22262 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA22002&RSKU=BA22002 Good PSU choice. Nissan101 linked to an Intel chip but an AMD Socket 939 board. Which one do you want? Personally, I'd go with AMD and get the X2 4200: http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewproduct.asp?PID=CPU-A64X2&updepts=CPU&DNAME=Processors+-+CPU You also don't want an ATA-100 when you can get SATA-IIs for about the same price, sometimes less. Is it the Newegg site that's making these wierd recommendations? Anyway, here's a Seagate Sata-II (3gb) http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=AA48650
i guess your in the states, in the uk this year several top pc mags aimed at modding and overclockers gave asus their retailer of the year awards. i also know of another ader in the usa who has had some problems with an asus mobo and after tring all that they advised (they phoned him!) they sent him another mobo and he got it in 3 days. it was a newwer model than the one he paid for with better features. imho thats good customer care
Asus was good way back before Pentium 4. And the overclockers like them because they don't mind replacing a mobo every 3-6 months. But if you want something stable, look elsewhere. Ditto for Newegg. I can only get started with the problems I and others have had with both Asus and Newegg. I've run into other troubles with both Asus and Newegg, but this is the most relevant to the discussion as I had one order I did that concerned both, I had to threaten to sue Asus to get a bad batch of P4R800-V Deluxe motherboards returned for a bunch of builds I was doing. After Newegg misrepresented the boards as being Win98-compatible (which a customer needed), it turned out they were also not even in Win2k-compatible, despite what Asus claimed. Even a BIOS update didn't help. Never had major problems with any other motherboard. And Asus has traditionally been finicky on memory, so whatever savings you get on the board you lose in buying premium-branded memory. Asus' replacing a bad board with a newer one is merely a matter of economics as it would have been much more expensive to bank some boards 'just in case they got some returns' than to simply provide a newer one. Also, good customer service is the one you don't have to use in the first place. I'd rather buy a product that I don't have to return than find out how helpful/unhelpful the manfacturer or seller is. Returning stuff is expensive. The thing is, if Asus was one of the only motherboard makers and Newegg was the only product vendor out there, then sure, I could see dealing with them. But there is enough competition and enough good products out there that you don't have to take those chances.
Well in most cases what ever manufacturer of the mobo, you should contact them. They'll usually give you a replacement. But I do agree with the ASUS P4.. series. I two P4P-800 Deluxe and hated both of them. I now run a ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe and have had zero problems. I've bought a ton from newegg and have always been satisfied.
