On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:30, Amol Hatwar wrote:

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Hi I want to purchase motherboard based on AMD Athlon processor. Which chipset I should go for? Which I should go for? ASUS?

[ah] I've had good experiences with ASUS and Gigabyte. If you have the money and are ready to buy additional ancillary hardware, I suggest you upgrade to their new 64 bit platform.

And I've had a bad one with Asus. I bought an Asus A7V8X motherboard last January and built myself a box with an Athlon XP 2000 CPU. The onboard sound died within a week of installation, and the ethernet within a few months. I was lucky - the dealer was a friend, and he replaced it with a MSI K7N2, which has performed flawlessly so far (around 8 months). YMMV.

Krishnan

Hi,

I have an AMD 2600XP with the Asus A7V8X board, and I've not had any problems this far (though I use an M-audio Revolution soundcard instead of the on-board sound). The PC is around 1 year old.

Cheers, Mohan

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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Srinivasan Krishnan wrote:

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:30, Amol Hatwar wrote:

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Hi I want to purchase motherboard based on AMD Athlon processor. Which chipset I should go for? Which I should go for? ASUS?

[ah] I've had good experiences with ASUS and Gigabyte. If you have the money and are ready to buy additional ancillary hardware, I suggest you upgrade to their new 64 bit platform.

And I've had a bad one with Asus. I bought an Asus A7V8X motherboard last January and built myself a box with an Athlon XP 2000 CPU. The onboard sound died within a week of installation, and the ethernet within a few months. I was lucky - the dealer was a friend, and he replaced it with a MSI K7N2, which has performed flawlessly so far (around 8 months). YMMV.

Krishnan

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