Motherboards

[Brett I. Holcomb]

My bias against VIA has come from years in the newsgroups where VIA has 
again and again been the culprit because it wasn't compatible with (sound, 
video, put product name here) cards.  You may have to lower the sound card 
acceleration for example.  Yes, many of these have been windows systems but 
at this point it was a hardware level problem.  Yes, many of these are game 
machines but they do test the hardware <G> and when other chipsets had no 
problems with the same setup - it's very suspiciouis.  And yes, VIA has 
issued driver updates to fix these but why should I have to hassle with 
this again and again - they need to do it right.  Any chipset manufacturer 
can have a problem but VIA has had far too many over the years to suit me 
so I don't allow them on the vendor list when I look at motherboards.


> 
> 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.
> 

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Brett I. Holcomb
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