AOpen AK77-400GN - motherboard - ATX - KT400A

Advantages: Northbridge KT400A, AGP 8X, DDR 400,perfect for overclocking
Disadvantages: none

...I think that the asrock K7VT4A+ has a greate performance/price ratio . Of course the Asrock is not such a prestigious brand but is very stable in overclocking and i've also heared a lot of good things about the board from a lot of buyers. The Northbridge KT400A is similar in performance with the nforce2 ,whel they differe by 3% but 3% isn't much.This chip is prety good as it suports Ata 133, the new AGP 8x which has a 2GB/s transfer rate, it has DDR 400 , and for overclocking entuziast it has the Built-in ASRock U-COP™ CPU Overheating Protection which makes it very stable . The transfer rate betwen the Northbridge KT400A and the SouthBridge VT8237 is also good about 533MB/s. In conclusion it is the best board for a lower budget it actualy compets with asus and gygabite.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap and lots of features
Disadvantages: average overclocking ability

...The AOpen AK77-600 Max has a unique feature of having double bios chips, specially these days when virus attacks are common these days. With having twin bios, the second bios can store a good bios version that can be used when the first bios other one fails. It is also bundled with a Norton virus 2003, s very helpful software which can protect you from e-mail worms and viruses. This board has via kt600 chipset instead of an nforce 2. The motherboard has a little heat sink at the middle which helps to avoid overheating. All the headers of this motherboard are place on the near bottom of the motherboard. The USB 2.0 header s located at the second third PCI slots. A total of 6 USB ports are located at the back panel of this board. There is also a printer port and 2 ps/2 ports. Four mounting holes are located in CPU sockets, which free... Read review

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Advantages: Has RAID, 266 FSB, upto 4 IDE’s, cheap
Disadvantages: 1.33 Ghz speed limit

...Erm… Well no actually! Motherboards can be drastically different in quality and speed. You just need to know how to look at them and what are the good and bad points of them all. Okay so here goes for the bad points about the Abit SoA AMD 761 ATX R motherboard Bad points: ~~~~~~~ 1. Windows will fight you over which device drivers are best and you’ll generally end up not even using the disk of drivers they give you. The navigation on the disk is painful at best and could be so much simpler. 2. There is no on-board sound (which I consider a plus personally, but others may not) (On board sound is normally crap!) 3. It may not come with the CMOS cleared (Mine didn’t and wouldn’t do a thing till I clear it! V. Annoying) (CMOS is your internal clock, and bios setup options) 4. It will only cope... Read review

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