GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard.

Advantages: Dual bios and great stability
Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings

...GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard. Introduction; This Dual Bios motherboard designed to accept AMD/Duron/Athlon/XP processors,incorperates onboard sound,+4 USB,with DDR memorey and in innovative dual bios system. Having myself tried and tested this motherboard for 6 months in two machines,I am totally convinced of is usefulness and it's place in the market.Providing a very stable board and up to date technology,it has the added benefit of a system that protects your bios against viruses,power fluctuations,incorrect bios upgrades and bios chip failure. Its incorperated resources and features are good,and ample for a very respectable system.However there are a few factors to be considered when choosing a motherboard,and most of the conflicts and incompatibilty problems I have encountered are not documented...

babajane32 28.02.2003 · Read review
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Review of Gigabyte GA-7DXR - motherboard - ATX - AMD-761

ASUS AMD Athlon Motherboard

Advantages: HDTV output, supports AMDs Cool 'n' Quiet
Disadvantages: Only one lan

...The ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard for AMD single-core Athlon 64/ Sempron and Dual-core Athlon 64 X2/ Athlon FX processors using socket AM2 is very user friendly, I went with AMDs 64 x2 3800+ processor in the beginning then moved up to 4200+ 2Gb Ram without any hassle, very easy to setup and fits easily in a standard ATX case. A possible downside to the board is that it has a limited number of slots due to being a micro ATX sized board. That's not a big deal for me as the only two cards I'll be buying in the future is Graphics and a extra Lan card. Board Layout `````````````````` >In the upper right hand corner of the motherboard are the ATX 24 pin power connector, Floppy disk connector, Game/Midi port connector and four DDR2 slots. These DDR2 slots support a maximum memory capacity of 8GB and the frequencies supported is DDR2-800MHz/667...

JGK555 31.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASUS M2NPV-VM - motherboard - micro ATX - GeForce 6150

Arn't motherboards all the same

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...

tigertom 06.02.2002 · Read review
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Review of Abit SoA AMD 761 ATX R Motherboard

mATX - Small, Sound, Old

Advantages: ATX-compatible, Power-efficient, Inexpensive, Supports ATA and SATA
Disadvantages: Obsolete DDR Technology, Unsuitable for Gamers

...ASRock P4i65G is a compact motherboard for that tiny PC case. Because it was manufactured for microtower standard computer boxes, it lacks the strengths that the following customers would desire: workstation administrators, hardcore gamers, media professionals. In other words, this motherboard is currently suitable only for those with medium requirements (if you wish to buy it for a new computer) and highly recommended for Socket 478 processor owners. Introducing mATX Power Capacity Most mATX computers support power supplies of no more than 350W, and the case is sometimes too small for you to stuff two hard disks. This motherboard can easily house a P4 3.4 GHz HT (one of the most powerful and watt-guzzling monocore CPUs) that can compete with modern dual core processors, multiple DVD-ROMs and hard disk...

Lord_Kelvin 15.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASRock P4I65G - motherboard - micro ATX - i865G

first motherboard. brillaint.

Advantages: absolutley stunning. easy to set up.
Disadvantages: havent found any.

...I used this motherboard on my first home made computer. I must say that it worked a treat. I fitted to it an AMD 6000+ X2 processor,4GB R.A.M, 1000GB Hard drive space, Blue Ray Reader. 512MB graphics card...and some other small components. I have never seen a motherboard before that came with absolutley everything you would need one one for this price, 7.1 surround sound, integrated graphics including a HDMI slot, 4USB ports on the back... it just had everything. And above all that It went together like a computer should, very easy with no problems. It took me about 2 hours to built it, this wasnt includint the operating system though. I had absolutley no problems with it what so ever. I have read some other reviews about this motherboard before I brought it and they have stated that the BIOS is a tad confusing, i havent found it...

jammyjammed 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital - motherboard - ATX - AMD 690G

ASUS M4A78 PRO motherboard

Advantages: cheapest i could find with UK online retailer
Disadvantages: open box item

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Review of ASUS M4A78 PRO - motherboard - ATX - AMD 780G

Dual Athlon MP motherboard from Gigabyte

Advantages: Supports all Athlon MP processors, CPU plug and play,
Disadvantages: Not many overclock options, tempremantal onboard raid, registered memory recommended

...Deciding to upgrade my computer as i could not do many things at once, i looked into the options available. My current pc at the time being an Amd Athlon XP 2600+ (which is still pretty fast), i was after something faster but not too expensive (and as i am an AMD fanatic it had to be an AMD). After much searching and forum checking, i had three options: 1/ Upgrade to Athlon 64 Pros: Newest processor offering from AMD, PCI express on most motherboards, Dual Channel memory support, My current memory will work fine. Cons: Might mean purchase of new video card, Might mean purchase of new Power supply, 2/ Upgrade to AMD Opteron Pros: Newest server/workstation based processor offering from AMD, PCI express on most motherboards, Dual Channel memory support, Cons: Might mean purchase of new video card, Might mean...

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Review of Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW+ - motherboard - ATX - AMD-760 MPX

A High Performance Motherboard

Advantages: Features rich, FSB 800MHz, USB2.0, Firewire, Dual Channel DDR, Supports upto 3.2Ghz, Prescott Ready, RAID, 8x AGP, On-board 1GB LAN, On-board Sound, Supports 4GB DDR RAM IT TALKS!
Disadvantages: Expensive, Asus website is SLOW.

...I wanted to build a new computer for myself but I also wanted a FAST one, and I can?t have a fast computer without a good motherboard. The ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe is a computer motherboard from the computer hardware company, Asustek (aka Asus). ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? JARGON BUSTER: A motherboard (aka: mainboard in the U.S) is a big circuit board found inside the computer. You have one inside the computer you?re using right now (assuming you?re using a computer to access the Internet). It?s no longer uncommon for people to buy motherboards on their own to build their own computers. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? WHY THE P4C800-E Deluxe? Reason I bought the P4C800-E Deluxe was because I heard that it is/was used by Alienware, a company that specializes in building high-end computer systems, in machines built for powerful computer games...

Deru 05.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe - motherboard - ATX - i875P

I have got the power

Advantages: takes both SDRAM and DDRAM, jumper-free set-up, easy installation
Disadvantages: none

...This week I bit the bullet, feeling flush from pay day and decided to get a new motherboard and processor, as well as new RAM to top and tail the progressive updates I had been making to my system since purchasing a Pentium III 800 MHz machine in August 2000. Having been loyal to Intel since 1995, I broke away and went for an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (1466MHz) with 133MHz FSB, which was considerably cheaper than going for a similar spec Pentium IV. To go with this I of course required a new motherboard, and having bought an Asus P2B which was a great board when I bought a P II in late 1998, I decided to revert to an Asus board (the system I bought in 2000 had a different make of board which died 2 months ago, and the Chaintech board with onboard sound and video was a desparate stop-gap) and plumped for the A7A266 DDR/SDR. I chose this...

Morgenhund 03.12.2001 · Read review
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Review of ASUS A7A266 - motherboard - ATX - AMD-761

Overclockable motherboard (Asrock K7S41)

Advantages: Safe overclocking ability, onboard graphics (64mb) Onboard LAN
Disadvantages: Only two Ram slots, and two PCI slots

...'s a very small motherboard (9.6inch X 7.8inch, 24.4cm X 19.8cm) which is ideal for smaller computer cases. The motherboard includes several of inputs and outputs on its back panel stated below. - Keyboard PS2 x1 - Mouse PS2 x1 - USB2 x 4 ports (able to have additional USB ports Via header) - Serial 1COM port bracket - Parallel 1 - Game/MIDI 1 - LAN 1 x RJ45 - Audio I/O Line In (light blue) / Line Out (lime) / Mic (pink) - VGA (64mb onboard graphics) By using the header for the USB2 on the motherboard I was able to connect the USB ports on my computer case to the motherboard giving me an extra two USB ports, totally six USB ports (which is more than enough for anybody) CPU - This motherboard supports socket 462 processors, AMD Sempron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Duron with FSB speeds of 400/333/266/200 Mhz Memory (Ram) - Max 2GB DDR...

cokemusic2009 05.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASRock K7S41 - motherboard - micro ATX - SiS741GX