I'm digging my SOYO. I can't remember the model offhand, but it's been good to me so far.
--Ben Jim Davis wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 5:58 PM >>To: CF-Community >>Subject: If you where replacing the heart of your computer... >> >>Looks like I get hit with a pretty bad power surge. Quote, "Popped the >>capacitors" of my motherboard. So, I am at least getting a new >>motherboard and power supply, possible a new CPU and Memory depending on >>how much damage the surge did. >> >>Are there any particularly cool features of a power supply, motherboard, >>CPU and/or memory that I might want to consider looking for? > > > I don't have one (damn) but I'm really becoming a huge fan of the modular > power supplies out there: instead of a huge bundle wires, many of which > you'll never use, you get a single power supply with a bunch of ports. Each > port can be connected to a special power lead (so if you have SATA drives > you can have those plugs without the molex connectors for example). > > If you're at all worried about keeping the inside of your case neat they're > so just so very cool. > > As for MOBO mine's out of date, but I love it: the SOYO P41875P (the "Dragon > 2" line). > > Four onboard IDE ports (two RAID) AND four onboard SATA ports. The board > also has a shit-ton of USB ports, onboard Firewire and Ethernet. It also > supports Soyo's "mega drive" internal memory card reader which can provide > (depending on which one you get) two front-facing USB ports or a > front-facing Firewire port. > > The onboard sound is pretty damn good as well. > > My board is AGP but I'd bet they have PCI-Express models available. Mine is > also Intel but I believe they've a model of the board for AMD as well. > > The board just has nearly everything you could want. No PCI expansion > needed. > > Jim Davis > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:168353 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
