Kamikaze_Badger Posted September 20, 2005 Posted September 20, 2005 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813180064 Has anyone used it? Is it stable? Efficient? It seems to be a good board for the price from the reviews, only one DOA (if you can call it that... "I plugged it in and saw a small spark."), and some reports of it being a great overclocker. So, am I falling victim to another clever marketing scheme with purdy colors, or is this a good board? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 poor layout. especially the IDE ports. I'd suggest getting a cheap AGP board for now and moving to a more expensive one with PCI express in the near future. no sense in just tossing away a higher end board so soon. these are all better options that actually cost LESS. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813152052 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813187010 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813152043 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813130514 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamikaze_Badger Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 At my upgrade rate, I'll probably have a PCI-E card when the GeForce 9 series is out... And what makes the layout so bad? *isn't the best at this stuff* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 the IDE ports are too low on the board. you want them no lower than 2/3 of the way up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 i consider the layout soso, but really, the board sucks when you factor in the boards you can get for less money. For that kind of money you could go with one of these http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...ductCode=246447 and get LanParty style performance. I know i LOVE my new Infinity board, ugly as ., but i love it and considerign the cost of AGP vs PCI-e i would just go PCI-e now if your buying a video card aswell, I dont remember what you have now, but unless it's a pretty good card i say why not move on up in the world Sticking with AGP i would prob go for the MSI board bigred linked to. anyway good luck, and yes im partial to DFI/MSI/Gigabyte...mainly bc i liek their boards especialyl when they perform better for less $$$ Oh and i have yet to have a board with a VIA chipset that OCed worth a dang over its top rated speed, heck the 3.0c cant even hit 3.05 with this POS thing VIA calls a 800fsb chipset, it's not even real stable at stock.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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