Re: [PLUG] Motherboards

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:29, Flint Heart wrote:
> I'm a BIG fan of ASUS boards...
> I'm not a big fan of integrated audio on mb's but have used several ASUS
> boards with audio built in with no problem.  

I turned the builtin functions (sound card, etc) off, since I already
have a SoundBlaster Live!

> don't blame ASUS on that right away.  In my experience the little extra
> money spent on an ASUS board is a more than worth the piece of mind that
> its well designed and that years from now i'll be able to get bios upgrades
> if that are needed...

Oh, yes. My last board, I updated the BIOS like a dozen times, enabling
support from the originaly Pentium 2 to P3; HDs >32G; etc.

Very flexible.

> 
> N-Tropy
> 
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Paul wrote:
> 
> > I use DFI mo'bo's.  I also have a more expensive Asus mo'bo' with an annoying ticking sound
> > when WAVs are played.After trying the DFI boards I decided to stick with it because it's a
> > solid board at a lower price.
> > 
> > 
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