What motherboard would you guys recommend I buy that is solid and reliable, made for a P4 2.4 w/533FSB, takes DDR 333 PC2700 RAM, and has AGP 8x? I own a soyo dragon lite p4x400 and when I have over 512MB of RAM the machine is a lot more unstable. The unstability manifests itself in the machine rebooting randomly, and programs locking up randomly. I figured I'd ask what you guys thought was good for a gaming motherboard because the requirements would be higher. The main manufacturers I was looking at were: ABIT, ASUS, and Gigabyte.
I'd get the Abit IS7. Of course you could get the cheaper IS7-E or E2, but the IS7 is probably worth the extra $10 for it's added features. It cost around $90.
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1.) The P4P800 is a nice board, but has the same CPU vCore issue as teh P4C800 series as far as I know.
2.) Not familiar enough with the gigabyte boards
3.) The IC7 doesn't even include onboard LAN and is the most stripped down board of the bunch
4.) The IS7-M is Micro ATX
5.) the IS7-E is a stripped-down version of the IS7
6.) Not too familiar with the MSI boards, but I have the feeling they won their reviews by cheating (automatic overclocking program). I prefer to manually control my overclocking.
I'd go with the Abit IS7.
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I would not buy any Asus boards. I bought one and it is so hard to get a tech on the phone. I spent housr on hold waiting to get help with problems with my board. The tech department is not very helpful. They try one thing and then told me to send it back and get a new one.
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