What motherboard your currently using?

[alx737]

I thought it would be nice to see what motherboard people here are using and are they happy with it or not. If not then please tell us why you think your motherboard is bad. Also tell us do you recommend your motherboard to other people or not. I'll be first to tell about my computer's motherboard.

I have an old Matsonic MS9307C motherboard and its just very old :( .
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, because its too old.

[Bio-Hazard]

Both of mine are in my sig.......... :wink:

The DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra D is a 100% recommend if you're not planning on running SLi.

The Abit AV8 is a good stable board for running a socket 939 with AGP, but there are alot better solutions out there if you want to OC.

[Frank Marino]

Asus A8N-SLI, I like it, though I haven't gone SLI yet.

[Schwarz]

I have a Asrock 939 Dual SATA2

I recommand it but not to everyone.
First off the board supports AMD 939s and the new AM2s.
It supports AGP and PCIe.
So if you are upgrading and still have an AGP card and don't want to spent a few hundreds for a video card jsut yet but want a better CPU then this is a great upgrade motherboard.
It doesn't support SLI so for those who want SLI get another board :p
And the main reason I got this mobo is because of the price.
Very very cheap.
So once again if you don;t have much money but plan to slowly upgrade this is for you !

[bulwark]

like it says in the sig P4P800 DLX at the time it was a good board, has some overclocking features, and supported both S and P ATA....but it's obviously no match for anything more recent so I can't really recommend it.

[werty316]

I am using an Asus A8N-E motherboard; it is great board but too bad it has a 1T bug. After finding out about this I wish for a Ultra-D now argh :cry: I would recommend this board if you do overclock or you do not but if you like to keep a high 1:1 overclcok get something else like DFI Ultra-D. Most people can only get to 240FSB with 1T before you get BSOD action.

[alx737]

Good that some people have already told us about their motherboards, now its good for someone to look at this topic and decide which motherboard buy next (if someone needs to buy new motherboard).

[liqnit]

EPOX-8KDA3J - great board BUT no PCI-e support
so i am in the looking process

[zachig]

I currently own an EVGA NF4 133-K8-NF41-AX PCI-E SLI Motherboard (Socket 939, of course) running a X2 3800+ CPU. :D

[XJnine]

It's gonna be a long list here...

My computer: ABIT IC7-MAX3 (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=130)
Pretty decent motherboard. Had to RMA it once because the northbridge fan died and the chip fried. There are also some capacitors or something (not going to open the case right now and look) near one of the pci slots that will make it difficult to put some cards in there. Never overclocked as well as I had hoped, maybe it's my RAM or CPU. Discontinued now and with newer socket 478 mobos released since this one I would not reccommend.

Wife computer: Gigabyte GA-7VA (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1409)
Very basic motherboard, no extra features. Bought it at a local shop when her old motherboard died and we needed a new one ASAP. It's been very stable and it's actually pretty fast. Would reccommend as an ebay find for an old AthlonXP but don't go buy one new.

Linux box: ABIT KT7A-RAID (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=89)
Very reliable motherboard and decent features for the time it was released. Back then most mobo's weren't coming with onboard audio on networking so don't expect to see it on this motherboard. I would not reccommend this board just because any one of these you find would be so old it would be too risky.

Mame cabinet: ABIT NF7-S (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=6)
Picked this one up off the Bjorn3D For Sale forum along with a Radeon 9600 and Geforce 5600. All parts are working great. The motherboard has done everything I've needed it to do. Having another motherboard around the house with SATA connectors has helped me out when trying to recover data from a failed system. Even though I haven't had any problems with this motherboard I would reccommend the v2 version of this board instead since it gives you 400mhz FSB support.

Web/shoutcast server: Tyan Thunder LE S2510NG (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=6)
Very stable motherboard. My main complaints are about the IDE speed of the serverworks chipset and the lack of expansion slots. Not the boards fault since it was designed for a 1u chassis but still annoying. The IDE speed though... here's a quote from the product "Due to limitations of the ServerWorks chipset, IDE transfer rates are limited to DMA at 16.6MB/sec." That's just horrible and totally unexpected from a server quality product. I guess they really think you're going to use SCSI with this motherboard. Unfortunately the version I have doesn't have the onboard SCSI and I've had to fill one of the 2 PCI slots with an IDE controller to get some decent speed. The other one is filled with a Matrox Millenium since the onboard ATI video was so horribly slow it made the system a pain to use. Even with all my complaining this is a good motherboard and as long as you know the limitations it could serve you well if you're looking for a dual s370 mobo.

Bedroom HTPC: Biostar U8568 (http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/board.php3?name=U8568)
Good motherboard for someone who needs s478 and PC133 support. Also supports DDR. Good motherboard. Get one if you need a s478 board with DDR and SDR support.

Son's computer: Gigabyte GA-8IRXP (http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=1298)
Used to be the motherboard in my PC before I moved up to the Abit IC7-Max3. It works good and has some good features but like most of my motherboards it's a bit too old to reccommend to anyone.

Main HTPC: Gateway 901x Media Center PC (http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/901_Series/2900090/2521072/2521072nv.shtml)
Basic OEM proprietary motherboard, 'nuff said. Wish it had more than 2 DIMM slots.

Garage PC: ACORP 6A815EPD (http://www.digit-life.com/articles/i815epacorp6a815epd/index.html)
Picked this up as a great deal on a dual s370 motherboard. I know why they were selling these things so cheap, it was very unstable. Sometimes it would work well, other times I couldn't keep it running for more than a few minutes. Maybe it was me, maybe it was other hardware I had it paired with. Either way, the instability and the memory amount limitation were enough to make me buy the Tyan mobo to replace it in my webserver. Now it's relegated to the garage. Based on my experiences I'd stay away from one of these. I know they work great for other people and it has worked well for me at times but I'd hold on to your money.

Kitchen System: Matsonic MS9327E+USB (http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Max_MATSONIC_MS9327E_USB_SIS_650GL_chipset_for_Soc ket_478_P4_motherboard_Specifications_Supported_CP U_Intel_R_Pentium_R_4_1_5GHz_2_8GHz_or_faster_Proc essor_Chipset_SIS_650GL_North_Bridge_and_SIS_962L_ South_Bridge_FSB_400_533MHz_RAM_Both_2x)
I bought this because I needed a s478 motherboard that used PC133 ram instead of DDR. It's worked well but nothing to write home about. No BIOS features and limited motherboard features but it's worked reliably and it had the features I needed. I'd reccommend this (if you can find one) if you need a s478 board to pair up with some old ram. The Biostar board above is a better choice though.

These are the motherboards I have in use right now. I've got a few others sitting around but I won't go into those since they're not in use at the moment.

[alx737]

It's gonna be a long list here...

WOW! It's indeed a long list, you have so many computers! My Matsonic MS9307C motherboard supports 2 SDR and 2 DDR memory slots just like one of your motherboards, XJnine, but I had used only one DDR memory for years and keep using it for some more time.

[Gray]

1St time in my life I am using a no name board. :oops:

I got my retail computer. lol. from where I used to work, it retailed for $1299.00 and I bought it for $500.00 when they closed the computer department down. I also got paid 5% back for selling it to myself. he he. So it was a great deal, and I swapped out most of the parts anyways and put in a better video card and more memory better power supply etc...

But other than that I have only owned ASUS and that's what all my computers are still.

Back since Pentium 1.

P-1 = TXP4 (66 MHz FSB)
P-2 = P2B (100 MHz FSB Great Mobo!)
P-3 = CUSL2 (133MHz FSB)
P-4 = P4TE (400MHz FSB Rambus)
P-4 = My current no name (800MHz DDR) MB IA Skt 478 865GG uATX 10/100 8IG1000MK (What ever the hell that is)

P-5 ????? Another intel Asus combo I am quite sure of that.

[werty316]

I should also mention I had a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. Probably the best S939 AGP board. When I had it it OC'd really well.

[zachig]

Holy sh*t, XJnine!!! :shock:

If I counted right, it means that you have 10 PCs in your house. :shock:

WOW That's A LOT!!! :lol:

[Bio-Hazard]

That is one heck of a lot of systems............. :shock: I thought that the 4 in my house was a lot for only 2 people living here............ :wink:

[pc_man_iac]

Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI is my mobo and I wouldnt trade it for anything but the Fatality Sli board

[XJnine]

Yeah.. I've got a few around the house. :wink: That's a big reason why we had the house wired with Cat5 when we had it built.

I hate having to run around the house to look something up on the net. It's nice to have access in just about every room. It comes at a price though. The electric bill is around $350 - $400 a month. Granted we've got to heat and cool the house too but the the pc's use up a lot of power.

Nice to see what everyone else is running, hopefully I'll be in the upgrade market soon.

[coldgin]

Gigabyte 865PE LGA775

[tomato]

I am currently using an ABIT KR7A-RAID. I have used ABIT boards since I started building my computers (this is my 3rd ABIT board). People have said that ABIT has gone down in quality in the last while, but I would have no qualms about recommending an ABIT mobo to anyone... my next one will no doubt be ABIT as well ;)

[Gordo]

I've got an Asus A7N8X Deluxe in my current rig, just about 3 years old. My older box, currently running Linux, is an Asus A7V (Socket A). I'll soon be building a new gaming machine. If I were to build today it would be the Asus A8N-SLI Premium. However I'm holding out for Socket AM2, so I hope Asus has a decent AM2 mobo ready this summer.

[azu]

Asus motherboards are a little troublesome for me, but it was just one dud PCI which broke down. [I RMAED it so its all good :)]

I have an asus a8n sli premium.

Its a really high quality motherboard and solidly built. I especially like the black PCB.
The 8SATA connectors is just overkill and the amount of expansion slots feels like theres way too many. The heatpipe feature is nice and keeps my nforce 4 with max voltage at 36 idle and 40 load.
Ram works like magic.

My only complaint about this motherboard is that it doesn't like booting at DDR400 settings with 2-2-2-6 @ 2.8v with my crucial ballistix. However, if i use A64tweaker it to change it, it works and its prime stable. so i have no idea whats wrong.

[Kougar]

It's gonna be a long list here...

My computer: ABIT IC7-MAX3 (http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=130)
Pretty decent motherboard. Had to RMA it once because the northbridge fan died and the chip fried. There are also some capacitors or something (not going to open the case right now and look) near one of the pci slots that will make it difficult to put some cards in there. Never overclocked as well as I had hoped, maybe it's my RAM or CPU. Discontinued now and with newer socket 478 mobos released since this one I would not reccommend.

I sooo wanted one of those when I was building my first system! (Stuck the info in my sig.) I always did think my CPU had more left in it to OC, I mean from 2.8ghz to 3.45ghz I only went from stock 1.525 to just 1.55 volts, and that was it. I can attain 3.6ghz but the system would be lucky to reach windows.

I suspected the chipset/BIOS is to fault because despite the IS7 being a 865PE chipset, Abit wrote a backdoor method into the BIOS to use Intel's 875 only chipset's PAT feature. Even so it has never worked even when I picked up some very high end performance memory to test it out with, and the BIOS does not allow their backdoor "PAT" method to be fully disabled. Other "Auto" BIOS settings are also pretty poor, as the IS7 never detects the RAM voltages correctly. Trying to reach the BIOS when it's feeding the RAM 2.6volts instead of a required 2.85 or 2.9 was just annoying (Max setting is 2.8 though regardless, oversight on my part). It also gets the default timings wrong as well, for both Crucial and G.Skill RAM in 1gb dual channel kits.

I also had the northbridge fan eventually fail. This was the earlier revision of the IS7 before they stuck on a bigger chipset fan/heatsink. However the heatsink never got warm to the touch even without the fan working, so I disconnected the fan and left it as is. I only just recently removed it, slapped some AS5 on the northbridge, before replacing the heatsink sans fan. Now it gets very warm to the touch! That pink stuff Intel slaps on as thermal compound must only be useful for giving computer enthusiasts a headache as it did nothing else that I could find. ;) I left it with passive cooling though, as my Zalman cooler is able to cool down the entire inside of my chassis, top of the video card to mosfets to northbridge and even one of the RAM modules.

XJnine... In regards to your later post, why would you ever need to heat your house during the winter anyway? :mrgreen:

Abit IS7: http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=79

[Scott]

Mine: A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Wife: A8N-SLI Deluxe
Oldest Girl: Nforce 2 NVIDIA Reference Board
Youngest Girl: A7N8X I think, ASUS nForce2
Son: Asus nForce 3 motherboard

Exchange Server: Leadtek nForce2
Domain Server: Old Epox thing

[Kougar]

I think I detect a common trend in which motherboard manufacturers you prefer Mr. Scott! A8N & A8N32 series does look to be very, very nice...

If I may ask however... Do motherboard manufacturers not care so much about reference boards being returned back to them after reviews? I sorta got that impression after a photo or two of THG's motherboard shelf and a few comments they had made in an article.

And to suppliment my oversized rambling post from above... If yer are already in the market for a IS7 series board, I'd suggest finding the higher-end model of it which is the IC7/IC7-G series. Better chipset with a much larger (& Needed) range of BIOS options.

[Chakka]

1. My music & gaming PC - MSI Diamond SLI with manchester X2 3800+ ocing to 2.5ghz
2. My daughters music, movies & games PC - Abit AN8 Ultra with winchester 3000+ ocing to 2.0ghz
3. My wife's PC - Old Dell, have no idea whats in it or do I care
4. My wife's notebook PC - Newer Toshiba

I did consider but did not go with the ASUS mobo cause there really doesnt seem to be a good support forum for ASUS mobos that I can find. MSI and ABIT have great support forums. DFI also seems to have a good support forum too but I hate the color of the mobos they produce.