What's your ALL TIME FAVORITE motherboard?

[Tatty_Two]

just one of the best there is ABIT IX38 QUADGT and very easy to overclock

LGA 775
45 nm CPU ready
Intel® X38 Express
FSB 1600
Dual DDR2 1066/800
PCI-E X16
SATA 3G RAID
PCI-E GbE
IEEE1394
7.1 CH HD Audio
SilentOTES™
µGuru™ Tech
RoHS Compliancy

reasonable!

 

[tzitzibp]

In the past i´ve used both AMD and INTEL boards....and the conclusion is that the best motherboard is the next one I´ll buy....everytime!

Up to now I vote for asus maximum formula se...

It´s stable, with a ton of OC features, with a preinstalled watercooling setup for the bridges and comes with a supreme FX II soundcard which ROCKS...

 

[btarunr]

ahem...that's MAXIMUS formula.


Tis a very epic name for a board. The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear "maximus" is the Roman crowds roaring "Maximus!! Maximus!!" in the movie Gladiator

 

[erocker]

My first enthusiast board was the Asus P5s-B Super Socket 7. Ahhhh, the days of switchboxes and jumper-tables...

Otherwise, I'd guess any top of the line Asus board is tops on my list.

 

[Pandaz3]

My favorite Socket A has to be My NF7-S (Rev 2.0), I am still fond of a MSI K7Na Delta L with a XP1700 that I had to 2.15 on air and it is still ticking at 2.0 today. The technically superior EPoX 8RDA6+ Pro (Still have two) is the Ultimate and would edge the AN7 just because it was a newer design with the last version of NFII. Actually I never met a NFII board I didn't like.

ASRock 939 Dual Sata 2 has served me well and the Warden's EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra has no equal.

I just bought a MSI K9A2 Platinum last night and I think I will be happy with it.

 

[Mussels]

abit NF7-S rev 2.0. my first venture into serious overclocking, and all-round excellent board. Great onboard audio, good OC options, very stable.

P.S: just realised the post above me said the same board! :cheers:

 

[btarunr]

Here, let me put it up:

Always good to remember these oldies, love 'em all.

 

[Mussels]

Here, let me put it up:

Always good to remember these oldies, love 'em all.

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[Grings]

ASRock 939 Dual Sata 2 here too. made moving to pci-e (from agp) so much easier (well, cheaper)

I thought buying an asrock was going to suck, based on their previous boards, but this thing rocked, proper support of both graphics standards (8x AGP and 16x PCI-E) and the thing could do 300fsb too...

My second favourite is my Foxconn NF4 SLI, i only paid £30 for it on clearance from ebuyer, after giving up on my gay dfi nf4 (not the expert, and it didnt like my ram, psu etc) it does 400+fsb

And finally another board worthy of note was my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe

I was a lot less skint back in them days, and went through MSI, Abit, Aopen, DFI, Gigabyte, Biostar and Leadtek Nforce2's, this was my favourite, and one of the only survivors (though not the fastest, that was the Abit, but it caught fire)

And i also just got an MSI p35neo2, which may well end up my favourite, i just havent had it long enough yet, but if it clocks a 9450 well, then it may become my new fave

 

[Mussels]

actually the asrock only has a 4x PCI-E slot. thats why they call it a PEG slot, and not PCI-E, since it doesnt meet the full standards. (PEG = PCI express graphics... just marketing crap)

 

[btarunr]

What's the yellow slot in the ASRock board for?

 

[Grings]

er, no, its 16x, youre thinking of a different board, this one was the real deal (google it/check asrock site)

 

[Grings]

What's the yellow slot in the ASRock board for?

an am2 slot & ddr2 slots

bit of a gimmick, but apparently they could even overclock!

 

[Mussels]

er, no, its 16x, youre thinking of a different board, this one was the real deal (google it/check asrock site)

I'm pretty sure it was 16x in size, but 4x electrical. pretty much all the asrock combo boards had that. Could be wrong, but i dont think i am.

The yellow slot was the AM2 upgrade.

Edit: beaten to it, with pics as well.

 

[btarunr]

@Grings
Somewhat like the ECS SIMA daughter-card. Pretty neat. Do you have this AM2 card too?

 

[Grings]

no, i stayed 939 (on the foxconn i posted) until i got a core2

i just sold the asrock to a friend a few weeks ago, i was using it with an old san diego 3700 till then

 

[btarunr]

This concept shouldn't have died. It's so sensible for upgrades. Alas! the board-makers need money from us every now and then.

 

[Pandaz3]

ASRock still makes a few newer models with AGP and PCI-E options

 

[zCexVe]

ASrock is good when come to saving your old parts which are still working But what I hate most is their advertising crap.Have written some crappy things all over the board like conroe,1333FSB, etc..just crap..

 

[zCexVe]

Gee was reading this thread.You guys have had gr8 first boards.When I was doing my first rig(2002,I was 13 )I didnt have an Internet connection,jus posters, some crappy local mags,local papers and some was there to learn.Anyway I had an Athlon 1.3 (after made it 256 L@ with that soldering )MSI K7T turbo2 ,256 133 SDRAM and a Riva TNT2 M64. I remeber when I saw a pic of MSI Geforce4(I think NV43) I was like WTF? why are they giving so much CDs with it?Whats that thing.Tell ypu it was a 6' x 3' full colour poster.I'm still 5'6" so think of a 13 year old boy who is staring at a VGA pic poster.:S :S .I even told my friends about it.I can die laughing when I remeber it.

 

[Pandaz3]

ASrock is good when come to saving your old parts which are still working But what I hate most is their advertising crap.Have written some crappy things all over the board like conroe,1333FSB, etc..just crap..

Cheap and Gaudy, but I only have one case of 12 with a window so I don't care all that much

 

[wtf8269]

DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D. Not even a question. Had more fun tweaking this thing than most of my boards put together. Super stable for me too!!

Absolutely! I miss this board so much. Such a good bang for your buck too.

 

[peach1971]

MSI K7N2 Delta2 Platinum
Very fast and stable, worked for my one & only Trophy Medal

@hwbot

Modded the NB cooler to silent though.

 

[Mad-Matt]

I'm pretty sure it was 16x in size, but 4x electrical. pretty much all the asrock combo boards had that. Could be wrong, but i dont think i am.

The yellow slot was the AM2 upgrade.

Edit: beaten to it, with pics as well.

Im pretty sure your only talking about the asrock intel boards. The amd boards are all full 16x pci-e slots.

Damn good boards the 939dual sata2/vsta for there exeptionaly low price. Previous board favarates are the Abit NF7r2 as noted in posts above due to its great overclocking of the AthlonXP. Going back abit I had an Abit KT133a which wasnt too bad, but had its issues and before that an Abit BX6 (if i recall right) which overclocked (what was thaught of as cheap back then) a celeron 300a to 460+ .

 

[btarunr]

Gee was reading this thread.You guys have had gr8 first boards.

The boards on this tread need not be our first ones, they're our favourite ones. My first board was some crappy Socket 7 which ran Cyrix MII.