23 Sep
2004
23 Sep
'04
11:52 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:30, Amol Hatwar wrote:
Hi I want to purchase motherboard based on AMD Athlon processor. Which chipset I should go for? Which I should go for? ASUS?
[ah] I've had good experiences with ASUS and Gigabyte. If you have the money and are ready to buy additional ancillary hardware, I suggest you upgrade to their new 64 bit platform.
And I've had a bad one with Asus. I bought an Asus A7V8X motherboard last January and built myself a box with an Athlon XP 2000 CPU. The onboard sound died within a week of installation, and the ethernet within a few months. I was lucky - the dealer was a friend, and he replaced it with a MSI K7N2, which has performed flawlessly so far (around 8 months). YMMV.
Krishnan