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

[Shawn Wallbridge]

See, I have been using Tyan for years. I consider them THE best manufacturer
of x86 motherboards.

My ranking of motherboards....

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 haven't tried much more, I don't really trust anything else.

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 12:47 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up


> 	I had a similar experience with an AMD 450 was using for a while.
> Had to underclock it to 400 to get it to work. Finally figured out it was
> the motherboard and not the processor. To this day I still despise
gigabyte
> motherboards as being garbage.

	Exactly... everyone who is knocking AMD chips, never seems to
realize that 90% of the time it's the motherboard. I've never had problems
with Asus or Soltek. But Gigabyte, tyan, Shuttle, etc... nothing but
problems.

	Rick