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3-Way Motherboard Shootout

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hard-look-at-hardware dept.

Steve writes "Hexus.net has put three high-end i955X-based motherboards through their paces, to see which is the best LGA775 platform motherboard. Intel's own offering falls a little short, but Gigabyte and ABIT both make compelling boards, with ABIT taking the top-spot by a small margin."

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  1. Avoid Abit High Ends by superpulpsicle · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used to think brands really didn't matter. Until I bought the Abit Ka7-100. It was a highend board back around 2000 with 4 Dimm slots and 6 PCIs, 1 AGP. And an ISA slot which could be used when sacrificing the last PCI slot. It was fantastic at the time.

    Then the transistors fried. I paid for shipping etc and got a replacement. Then it fried again, replaced, then fried again. 4 years later Abit sends me a letter saying they lost a lawsuit for selling select board models with broken transistors including the Ka7-100. Basically they knew it, and told consumers nothing about it.

  2. Why can't they link directly to this? by Mechcozmo · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review_print. php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xNjAw

    Printer friendly version for everyone so that this (click, load ads) doesn't (click, load ads) happen (click, load ads) to (click, load ads) you (click, load ads).

  3. The most important thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Only one thing matters. Warranty.
    As a Genuine Intel Dealer, I can expect a replacement board to be overnighted even before I send the faulty one back. That way there is minimum disruption to the customer.
    Try telling a customer their server is down for a few weeks while you wait for the board to be shipped back to Taiwan/China for testing before they'll issue a replacement.

    Had a few customers who got non-Intel boards and had no computer for up to three months while waiting for a replacement. Think about that. That's three months paying for broadband you can't use for some people. The inconvenience cost adds up pretty quickly. Kinda makes a 5% increase in motherboard performance seem pretty irrelevant.

    And Intel has a good history of actually fixing mistakes. FDIV bug -> replaced processors. VC820 SDRAM bug -> new board and free RDRAM RIMM.

    Oh well. I'll stop ranting but hopefully you get my point.

  4. Re:Faster, higher, stronger? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you've somehow missed the chatter about the miniITX boards?