At 08:39 PM 4/7/2006, Robert Martin Jr. typed:
Many of the new ASUS boards (mine is SLI-deluxe) have the talking bios, which is great if theres a problem. I had a stick of ram go bad the the bios told me verbally when I restarted the machine. Just for this feature on top of good stability, I would recommend them. Saves a lot of time messing with post cards.
I happy for your success with ASUS but I wouldn't take one if it were given to me after the problems I've had with their A7V333. I use to be an Abit man until I started reading complaints about Abit & that's when I made the jump to ASUS. I sure wish I hadn't listened to the complaints but then I started using Gigabyte boards for the last 5yrs & have never been sorry that I made the switch & neither has any of my clients. Some of their low end boards only have a yr warranty but all their top end boards are have 3yr warranties. It's nice that I can stay with the same make of mombo for all my builds whether it's for AMD based board or an Intel based board & top end or low end mombo they've all worked flawlessly. I've recommended them to many people on other lists & have heard very few complaints. I'm running a Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 w/ a 3800+ & hope to be running a 4400+ X2 processor in it very soon.
FWIW it's JMHO & YMMV but probably not. ;-)
