Advantages: This motherboard works in a great speed and stability. Disadvantages: I have not found it, yet.
When I was reading my diary, I found some notes about my struggle to build a new personal computer (PC). It took place in September 2001; by the time I was thinking that my previous PC (a classic Pentium with an Intel 233 MMX inside!) had been too hard to handle my increasing requirements on programming activities. I needed a faster performance to compile my source codes and a better display resolution to design interfaces of my applications.
Well, ... ...and rather complicated. There are a lot of aspects to consider. Everyone requires inexpensive components with nice qualities, so do I. First of all, to fulfill my main requirement – a speed with a rather low price – based on my observation, finally my feeling told me to purchase an AMD Athlon 1.33 MHz. Then I wrote down my plan to have an AMD 1.33 MHz. Just a note, my main reason to choose AMD, not INTEL because the price of an AMD must be under ...
djohan 07.03.2003
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Advantages: Great Value Disadvantages: Some Revisons of this Board have memory problems....
I have used many of these Mainboards to build systems for friends and customers and in general the boards are very easy to set up and in general give no problems at all. However there are a couple of things i would like to point out to any person wanting to buy this Mainboard.
I Have built maybe 60 - 80 systems with this board and i can say that the only two problems i have had are (Memory) & (Overheating).
Memory Problem, Easy Solution dont have ... ...causes crashes for some unknown reason. The way i solved this for a customer was by taking his 2 256mb strips of memory out and replacing them with 1 512mb strip this solved the problem of crashing.
Cpu Overheating Problem, When using an xp1800+ you have to go into bios and knock it down to 100mhz front side bus for the chip to run and if you dont do this then you get crash after crash. Sometimes the board is fine and runs perfect however as i said ...
wakey_uk_22 04.05.2003 (05.05.2003)
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Advantages: Very fast, can take up to xp2600 with 333mhz fsb. can use DDR or SDR Disadvantages: if using usb ports at back, 1st pci slot cant be used
One person ask's, 'what is it?' A motherboard for a computer which is why its in the motherboard section under Hardware, under computers. Yet they rate it anyway. 'What does it do' they also ask.... Well, if your looking at a motherboard for a computer, then, well, computers hardware is generaly complicated so really, only people who know what a motherboard is would really be looking at it. For those who dont then, here goes....
A motherboard has ... ...the mouse, keyboard, internal cards (sound cards, Graphics cards), Drives (Floppy disk, hard disk, cd rom/rw, dvd/rw) memory, (RAM) and the processor. A processor contains a set on instructions, and it processes all of the information which goes to it and then send it to the appropriate part for the desired effect. The faster the cpu is, the faster it will process information. However, if the processor is fast, and something like the graphics card ...
booski 30.10.2003 (31.10.2003)
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