Myriad_Rocker
New member
Suggestions? Ideas?
wheelema said:Listen to Mother...
Any motherboard you get will be obsolete within a calendar year, if not six months. Memory for it will be hard to come by, buss technology will have moved forward, and the hottest processor it can support will cost little more than the bottom of the line processor that it will support costs now.
Base your purchasing decision on...
- Vendor RMA policy... can you take it back if there are problems? (Forget about Fry's!)
- Reliability and Support... does the manufacturer have a rep for reliability, good tech support, and good driver support? (I lose driver disks all the time).
- Feature set... does it have the goodies you want, and that you are going to use, RIGHT NOW? Don't pay more for RAID if you are only planning on using RAID, don't buy support for 4GB of RAM if you are only going to install 512MB when you buy it.
- Cost... Good motherboards can be had VERY CHEAP. You do not NEED to drop $200 when a $60 board meets your criteria.
Luck.
wheelema said:Listen to Mother...
Any motherboard you get will be obsolete within a calendar year, if not six months. Memory for it will be hard to come by, buss technology will have moved forward, and the hottest processor it can support will cost little more than the bottom of the line processor that it will support costs now.
Base your purchasing decision on...
- Vendor RMA policy... can you take it back if there are problems? (Forget about Fry's!)
- Reliability and Support... does the manufacturer have a rep for reliability, good tech support, and good driver support? (I lose driver disks all the time).
- Feature set... does it have the goodies you want, and that you are going to use, RIGHT NOW? Don't pay more for RAID if you are only planning on using RAID, don't buy support for 4GB of RAM if you are only going to install 512MB when you buy it.
- Cost... Good motherboards can be had VERY CHEAP. You do not NEED to drop $200 when a $60 board meets your criteria.
Luck.