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You're pretty much bound to find Foxconn components on just about anything including ASUS motherboards. They also make intel and apple mobos. They are not really so much an underdog. Everyone I know who has had a branded foxconn board has hated it however.
I've always been partial to ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI desktop motherboards. MSI only for its usually really good overclocking abilities. I don't really know too much about server boards except Tyan and Supermicro seem to do fairly well in that area. Also yes, Supermicro designs desktop and server boards but mostly they just focus on the server market AFAIK. Edit: Even though you said you weren't looking for an ASUS. If you're looking for an mATX, you should check out ASRock boards, ASUS' little cousin but less in price and supposed to be more stable. Good luck with whatever you decide, hope it works out for you! Last edited by chill; 1st November 2008 at 12:16 PM. |
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Chill, I haven't had a Foxconn before, can you tell me why your friends didn't like it? For a desktop board they look good to me.
I'd have to agree with that Asus and Msi are good, particularly when matched with a fast cpus, although I haven't had a gigabyte board so no idea on that one. Similar to MSI is intel and its range of desktop and dual cpu workstations, loads of ocing ability and up to date fsbs and ram. But I really think that the Foxconn could be better than the intel boards for a desktop setup. With you on the server boards, although I haven't read too many positives about Tyan of late. As soon as you move away from a single cpu setup the only choice seems to be Supermicro/Intel combo. That said SuperMicro has made some good single cpu boards in the past, and I am sure that it could also do the same in the future, although you need a keen eye to choose a winner. I am not really into Asus that much, but some people just can't live without it, do you know if it is a chick thing, or more of an OCing board? Quote:
As far as enthusiast boards go, i guess at one extreme i have seen pics of like super cooled setups with seethrough cases with fluro lights and speakers just like oced cars, but i am not sure if that is me at this stage, i am more of a traditionalist at heart.
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edit: I found the board, an "oc" board with major problems with ocing http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...dx48bt2_9.html
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given the price at which it retails, they do a decent job. on a workstation board that costs twice as much its easier to get things right. BTW, putting half a kilo of copper on a board, using all solid capacitors ... nine 120mm fans in a cabinet... maybe a good gimmick but not good design. Last edited by ephemera; 3rd November 2008 at 01:03 PM. |
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MDH, looking at Biostar now...
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Maybe it's different in the U.S.?
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It's interesting that your sig mentions VIA C7. What purpose are you looking for this for? VIA's chips/boards are great for some tasks - but not for a general-purpose server or workstation.
The advantages are low power consumption, tiny footprint, and PadLock instruction set. The disadvantage is that it's slow, slow, slow. Unless low power, a small footprint, and quick AES crypto (my 800mhz C3 computes AES128 and AES256 faster than my Athlon X2 5200+ thanks to the PadLock instruction set) and random number generation (in my experience, and I've run a few tests, the randomness is of a very good quality, and is cryptographically secure) are very important to you, you won't want C3 or C7. If those three things are very important to you, you'll be very happy with a C7 based system. |
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How long have you had the biostar (bios + star?) systems running and are they reliable? oh noes, my intel cpus have come down with a flu, looks in bad shape, its barely hanging in there, I might have to stick with C7 for now. Last edited by FHW; 5th November 2008 at 01:46 PM. |
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The problem with foxconn was actually that they were using AMI BIOS and AMI was the one that did the sabotaging (foxconn realized about it after all the complaints sent by linux users). There was a "temporary" fix which involved routing the linux option to the Vista acpi table (both OS's support ACPI in the same way).
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