[ale] Good bang-for-buck mobo/cpu?

[Michael Smith]

I have to give a thumbs up to Asus motherboards also.  I have used them for
the last 10 years and I've yet to get a dud.  In fact I have one PC that has
been up for 2 years without any issues.  I did buy an Abit mother board a
couple of years because I thought I was getting a good deal and 4 months
later the northbridge fan seized up and it overheated.  Luckily it was under
warranty and I returned it for another Asus motherboard and its been running
fine for 2 years.

On 6/6/07, Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com> wrote:
>
> Brian Pitts typeth:
>
> >well but cheap would be Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2
> >3600+ processor, and a 1GB stick of any brand of DDR2-667 memory. This
> >should cost < $200.
>
> I just went ahead and followed your suggestion. Installation was a
> breeze, compared to the time and effort I spent on an ECS POS a couple
> weeks ago.
>
> And my system is FAST. :)
>
> Caveat: The mobo manual claims that 16-chip RAM is not supported. But
> I got a ($30) 16-chip stick of ram, and it seems to be working just
> fine.
>
> Cost was closer to $300 than $200: the mobo was $100, and a 4600+ was
> the cheapest x2 processor they had.
>
> Thanks again for the recommendation.
>
> Joe
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