what was your favorite motherboard ever?

[qubit]

... Join the club

I remember when I got my AN7, I had the option of getting an NF7 of some description.

I could either go for the extreme overclockability of the NF7, or the sophisticated Guru features and reasonable overclockability. In the end, I went for the AN7, because I couldn't resist playing with the extra toys built into it.

The external Guru Clock available for some of my later Abits was a nerdgasmic delight, I tell you.

 

[Polaris573]

Actually, i didnt think of this, i think one board that was better than my P6T-SE would be, BY FAR, the ABIT-IC7-G i bought 7 years ago for my Pentium 4 computer. i bought it 7 years ago and it still holds and overclock of 3.4GHz stable on air to this day, i may have built a new computer, but i still use this one and so does my dad everyday since we keep it downstairs in the living room.

And here it is.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/abit_ic7-max3_review/images/01.jpg

Thank god there was some love for the IC-7 in this thread. I was going to have to bonk heads if someone hadn't mentioned it.

 

[Johnny87au]

definately my old school evga 680i, beast of a board

 

[xBruce88x]

I'd definately have to say the Abit NF7-S 2.0 also. That thing was awesome. I was finally able to unlock my Athlon XP 2500+ Barton to run at 3200+ speeds. had 2gb XMS DDR400, and a Radeon 9600XT. That thing was also ROCK SOLID. It survived THREE hits from lightning before finally being taken out by a bad bios update from ABIT. also had a 160gb hdd and was running 2 monitors and a tv on it at the same time (yea i know video card) but that was the best rig I've ever had. The best part? I got the Mobo and ram for $30 back in '05 XD.


2nd Fav would be my (err now my room mate's) AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA. It allowed me to keep my hardware from the abit nf7-s build and slowly upgrade.


others...An Amptron 598-LMR. it has a sis530 and supported 768mb ram. many hrs spent on CS1.5/6 doing scrims for CAL. and quite a bit of Starcraft. was running with a AMD K6-2 @550mhz.

I wish i could remember the model of the motherboard that had my AMD "Am486 P-75" at 133mhz. 48mb ram, win98se. my first starcraft rig lol.

and just for laughs... at the time i had my Abit build... i was playing a mod in Half Life 2 and came accross this ingame... ironically it looks almost exactly like the hardware in my comp at the time. esp that radeon.

had a 5.1 sound system hooked up to the tv and comp at the same time. I wired 2 extra 20watt speakers to the sub unit for added bass (cheap system). the tv was connected via s-video. i had a gamestop selector switch that let me switch between pc, gamecube, and dvd player. the 6 disc changer was connected via line-in to the pc. Oh and that's not 2 floppy drives, one was a ZIP250

3 90mm 50CFM fans. and an arctic cooling freezer 7 (i think)

 

[Melvis]

You will find those same pics/parts in CS:S (Your top pic)

 

[JC316]

P5Q-Pro i loved that board

Same here, that and the Biostar T-Force 550.

 

[jlewis02]

Abit NF7-s then my Asus Maximus II Formula.

 

[kiriakost]

ASUS P4C800E Deluxe ... the most rock solid motherboard after 10 motherboard upgrades.

Currently having a Gigabyte , solid performer , but the Bios has unsolved issues.
You have to tweak manually few settings , so make it rock solid at boot.
If it starts and boot , then it is unstoppable.