motherboard recommendations???

[blowupboard]

I'm evaluating what mainboard to use for a micro atx mb for intel p4 northwood or amd xp cpu.
Reason why I'm looking for micro atx because I'm trying to make a case mod in a small (mini-mid) atx tower case so I can haul it around for future lan parties.

I'm wondering what opinions are on biostar and ecs elitegroup mainboards?

Junk or okay to get??

I may use asus p4b266-m for p4's, but I haven't decided yet.

But please post about any recommended intel 845-d (ddr supported) chipset micro-atx mb's. No via, ali or sis please!!!!


For amd xp, what would a recommended nvidia n-force chipset micro atx board be??? No via, ali or sis again please!!!

Thanks in advance!!!!!

P.S. Don't bother mentioning abit!!!! I'm never buying another abit board again!!!!!!!!

[BigBlue66]

Could ya be more specific?

IMHO, one of the premier places for objective and thorough testing and review of all things computer related is www.tomshardware.com. Why don't ya hop on over there and have a look at his motherboard reviews?

Once you have pinned down a couple of boards you're interested in, THEN, ask opinions of them.

That's just me though. Maybe others will be tickled crapless to offer whatever input they can on a wide variety of boards.

[BigBlue66]

Could ya be more specific?

IMHO, one of the premier places for objective and thorough testing and review of all things computer related is www.tomshardware.com. Why don't ya hop on over there and have a look at his motherboard reviews?

Once you have pinned down a couple of boards you're interested in, THEN, ask opinions of them.

That's just me though. Maybe others will be tickled crapless to offer whatever input they can on a wide variety of boards.

I will say that I have seen good things said about ECS (Elitegroup) but haven't seen many good things said about Biostar.

Cheers

[Jimstep]

It depends on what you want to do with your system. Also, the fact you don't want comments on VIA just begs the question...Why not VIA?

[blowupboard]

Sorry for the confusion.

The reason why I requested for no one to list motherboards with a via, sis, or ali chipsets because I already have experienced those chipsets.
I own an amd duron 850 with a matsonic mb using a via kt 133a chipset, I helped a friend setup his system with an msi 6380 ver 2.0 mb (via kt266a chipset) with a 1600+ xp and another friend with an asus a7a266 (ali magik 5 chipset) and 1.3 ghz athlon tb.
Those systems cruise!!

I refuse to touch any sis chipset mb due to sis's notorious reputation for problematic, unreliable and slow performing chipsets. I realize sis is making some better chipsets now, but they still have a long way to go.

I find the upcoming via 333ddr chipset to be very promising.

Amd 760 chipset is 1 year old now and amd is getting out of the chipset business.

I have yet to experiment with nvidia nforce chipset mb.
I read they are good, but I want to find out for myself.

So that's why I'm asking for opinions on any nvidia nforce mb for amd or a p4 intel 845-d (ddr) chipset mb in a micro atx version because I'm case modding a system to take to lan parties.


Hope this explains it all.
Thanks for the info on ecs mb there bigblue66!

[Jimstep]

I appreciate the explaination. It helps to understand where someone is coming from with their requests.

I don't have any website to point to, but the word on the nVidia chipsets have positive. I think nVidia should stick to GPU's so they don't spread themselves too thin.