[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Shawn Wallbridge]

If the machine is for me, it's Tyan period. If I am spec'ing a machine for
someone that is really concerned about price, I generally go with Abit or
Asus.

The limited experience I have had with Gigabyte, FIC, ECS, and Shuttle has
made me very uneasy about using them again.

I was a little worried about using the MSI board when we bought them, but
they have been very good. I think I would choose Tyan over MSI, but I
wouldn't be too concerned if I had to use them again.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Rick Hamell
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:23 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up


> Tyan - rock solid, but no overclocking (generally)
> Asus - solid, some overclocking, but still stable
> Abit - Fast, can be stable, but not what I would call solid
> MSI  - Undecided, we have tons of them and we haven't had any problems,
but
> I still don't trust them (bad PII board experience)

	I personally have had problems with Tyan boards, but many, many
others have said they're great. Unluckily, when I was building PCs for
server use, we stuck to Asus and Soltek for the reliability so I didn't
experiment there much.
	The places I did experiment was building cheap-ass, home use
PC's. If I did not use Asus or Soltek MB, I had about a 5% failure rate on
every other brand I ever used. FIC and Shuttle were by far the
worse. Gigabytes tended to have a large number of "weird" problems under
Microsoft products (Excel would give the wrong answers when doing sums,
Word would only use one font, etc.)
	MSI and Abit are ok boards, they were a good compromise between
quality and price. They just don't live up to my personal standards. :)

	Rick