[mdlug] [Fwd: Re: bios battery]

[Morris, Tim]

Tyan do make good quality desktop boards (or at least used to). They
were a little on the expensive side. Abit is also suppose to be a good
name, although I have not personally had one.

Now that you mentioned it, I did have an Epox board, it's still running
strong in my grnadma's 'puter. I guess we'll throw that on the
rock-solid list for me.

ASRock and PC-Chips are both cheap(er) mboards, but I haven't had any
problems (yet).

MSI, BIOSTAR, ECS - All junk.
DFI - I have a friend who had one die on him, but I have had no
experience (good or otherwise) with them.


--  Tim Morris - UGS

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:17 PM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] [Fwd: Re: bios battery]

Morris, Tim wrote:
> I have had M-Tech (dead & gone), Asus, PCChips, Tyan, Intel, ASRock, 
> Biostar, MSI & ECS.
>
> Asus, PCChips, Tyan, Intel: All rock solid.
>
> ASRock: No problems yet, only a few months old
>
> Biostar: Crapped out after 3 months
> MSI: after a year
> ECS: It's still running my Celery 1.3 with modified fan, but I have 
> had the USB ports stop working for weeks, then mysteriously start 
> again (go figure), and there was no AGP slot (my fault). I'm not 
> really sure if I would recommend them or not. I don't think I will buy
another.
>
>
> --  Tim Morris - UGS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Corral
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:43 AM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] [Fwd: Re: bios battery]
>
> 2007-01-17, Monsieur Garry Stahl a ecrit:
>> I'm calling Mum a total loss and getting a new one.  Buy a cheap 
>> mobo,
>
>> get what you pay for.
>>
>> Mum -- RIP
>
> Sounds like your nonAmiga experiences have not been optimal. :) I've 
> had good luck with Tyan mobos, FWIW.
>
> Michael


Once again, I maybe dating myself here, but PC-Chips used to be one of
the cheapest motherboards you could buy, has their quality increased
any?

If there is one component of a computer, when I'm building a computer
for myself, that I do not skimp on is the motherboard.  I think with
mobos, the addage stands true, "you get what you pay for."

There actually have been an increase in the number of mobos on my
"quality" list.

Quality: Abit, Asus, MSI [new on the list], Tyan [I usually only see
Tyan's as server mobo's, I don't think they would make a good "home
computer" mobo].

Middle-of-line: DFI [used to be on the no-buy list for me], Epox [used
to be a quality board].

Never buy: Biostar, PC-Chips, ECS, any other company I've never heard
of.

This is my list that I came up with off the top of my head, I may have
omitted some.

Mike

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