Motherboards

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 28 December 2002 13:29 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> My $0.02 worth...
>
> VIA chipsets aren't that bad. In fact, it's the most common chipset
> that I'me exposed to, both at home and at work.
>
> As far as brands go. I'm totally amazed at how well SOYO motherboards
> work. Also MSI. My most recent purchase has been an MSI KT3 ULTRA2.
> Excellent, fast and decently priced.
>
> As for Intel cpu's... I go out of my way to avoid them.

I would agree with you on the Intel's with the exception that they *do* 
seem to have good thermal protection.  (slowing down the processor).  If 
anything untoward happens to an AMD CPU, they immediately go up in 
smoke.  I don't like that 'feechur'.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         12/28/02 
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