RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Dodge
: [H] DFI vs Asus Neither. I'd go with the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum. Greg - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [H] DFI vs Asus If you were going to buy a 939 motherboard, would you

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 07:40 PM 13/04/2005, rls wrote: I have only heard good things about DFI. When I was looking for my dual Xeon board surfed a bunch of locations and the consensus 6 months ago from the locations I visited was that they were more stable than Asus and ran faster at standard clock speeds. Thanks.

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 08:52 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Greeeaaat. How long ago did you use DFI boards? It's been over 2 yrs now so as you know they could be decent now. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:51 AM 14/04/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 08:52 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Greeeaaat. How long ago did you use DFI boards? It's been over 2 yrs now so as you know they could be decent now. True, but history is often a good indicator. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 09:03 AM 4/14/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: True, but history is often a good indicator. Agreed. I first tried DFI boards when a local BM store started carrying them. They use to build custom systems to my specs for my clients whenever I needed them to then one day I needed a system the

Re: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread warpmedia
Never trust anyone other than people dealing with the boards in volume stable faster than Asus would make me question the methods of testing and does not speak to the repeat quality of a brand. My vote is for Asus as a brand, than maybe of the other common brands you guys post here like MSI

Re: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [H] DFI vs Asus My vote is for Asus as a brand, than maybe of the other common brands Disclaimer: at some point 8-10 years ago got

Re: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread Greg Sevart
Mine rides on Asus, also. I stay in lots of controversy with my recommendations etc. but I rely on over 7 years of experience. Instead of saying others are bad, let me just say that Enlight, Asus, Intel, Crucial, ATI, U.S. Robotics, Western Digital and Seagate and Mitsumi have worked very

Re: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread FORC5
FWIW my asus mb's are fussy with corsair memory ( bought on recommendation it was the best ) bah. YMMV of course. fp At 10:50 AM 4/14/2005, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: The only lasting allegiance I have in this industry, where things change too rapidly to have mass brand loyalty, is to

Re: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-14 Thread FORC5
WOW :-* fp At 12:39 PM 4/14/2005, Tim \The Beave\ Lider Poked the stick with: I am currently using: Asus A8N-SLI AMD FX55 4x512MB of Corsair XMS Low Latency DDR Asus N6800GT etc... It seems to be running fairly well at this time. In fact in gaming it appears to be running faster than my 3.2GHz E

[H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-13 Thread Thane Sherrington
If you were going to buy a 939 motherboard, would you go with an Asus A8V Deluxe or the DFI LP UT-nF4 Ultra-D? T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus]

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-13 Thread Hayes Elkins
: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] DFI vs Asus Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:15:29 -0300 If you were going to buy a 939 motherboard, would you go with an Asus A8V Deluxe or the DFI LP UT-nF4 Ultra-D? T

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-13 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:22 PM 13/04/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: I'd go with the cheapest NForce4 Ultra based board that will support the newest revision E Athlon64's. There is no longer any performance difference between the brands as the memory controller is integrated in the CPU. It comes down to bells and

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-13 Thread Hayes Elkins
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] DFI vs Asus Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:52:51 -0300 At 01:22 PM 13/04/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: I'd go with the cheapest NForce4 Ultra based board that will support the newest revision E Athlon64's. There is no longer any performance difference

RE: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-13 Thread rls
. Well hope my comments on the DFI help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 2:28 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] DFI vs Asus At 03:08 PM 13/04/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: I still regard

Re: [H] DFI vs Asus

2005-04-13 Thread Greg Sevart
Neither. I'd go with the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum. Greg - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:15 AM Subject: [H] DFI vs Asus If you were going to buy a 939 motherboard, would you go with an Asus A8V