What's your ALL TIME FAVORITE motherboard?

3991vhtes · Dec 26, 2007

Mine is the Abit AN7. It can do a monster stable overclock. Also has a TON of options for the CPU, memory timings, and others.

What's your favorite mobo, and why? :toast:

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

All time favourite mobo: MSI KT-4 Ultra FISR : This is where my enthusiast life began, with a modest Athlon XP 2600+ processor and a GeForce FX 5600 card.

I made my first RAID array on this using two ATA100 drives. I was shocked at the performance gain. Ever since, I've always been using RAID arrays. This babe was one of the first ones to come with AGP 8X, even before the nForce 2. Intel was still in the development stage with the 82865 and its AGP 8X board. This was also one of the first ones with 6-ch audio....CMI8738. And Broadcomm LAN.

3991vhtes · Dec 26, 2007

there's 2 Socket A boards....

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

two Socket A boards :confused:

sorry didn't get you.

panchoman · Dec 26, 2007

i've seen this thread before... hmmm now....

biostar tforce 550 btw..

Darknova · Dec 26, 2007

btarunr said:
two Socket A boards sorry didn't get you.

Both the ones you two pointed out are socket A, that's what he means

Anyway. Mine has to be my current one. I started serious overclocking with my old ABit AN8 32X but it was so picky with RAM that it kept holding me back. My MSI Neo2-FR surprised me so much. It's an excellent board. I love it.

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

yeah. I was just a church-mouse back then, couldn't buy those pricey MSI 845P Neo + P4 2.53 GHz (the best ones around when I bought these). But my Athlon XP 2600+ outperformed many of my richer friends' P4 2.53 GHz. :eek:

DRDNA · Dec 26, 2007

DFI anything !! :toast:

francis511 · Dec 26, 2007

Darknova said:
Both the ones you two pointed out are socket A, that's what he means

Anyway. Mine has to be my current one. I started serious overclocking with my old ABit AN8 32X but it was so picky with RAM that it kept holding me back. My MSI Neo2-FR surprised me so much. It's an excellent board. I love it.

What features make that board stand out ? I was thinking about getting one of those after xmas

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

francis511 said:
What features make that board stand out ? I was thinking about getting one of those after xmas

They were the best in those days. All the boards we're talking about are extinct.

intel igent · Dec 26, 2007

Asus boards ftw!

francis511 · Dec 26, 2007

btarunr said:
They were the best in those days. All the boards we're talking about are extinct.

Duh , the MSI board.

TechnicalFreak · Dec 26, 2007

I can't really remember the name of the mobo , it was like "silver color" and I think it was named "SOYO" or something.. Was the best one I ever had back then (years ago!). And then lightning struck our building, and since we only have grounded connections in kitchen and bathroom... Well let's just say it was fun to have it for like 1 month only

newtekie1 · Dec 26, 2007

I am going to have to pick my A8N32-SLI. It was my first serious overclocking board, and a dream to work with, and it was my first multi-GPU motherboard.

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

^ That's my second most fave.

Random Murderer · Dec 26, 2007

abit kv8-pro.
this was the board i put in the first system i ever built. it had an athlon 64 3400+ Newcastle 2.4GHz(thebeephaha now has it), a 256MB radeon 9600xt, 1GB of rosewill ram, and a 300GB hdd. i obtained my first overclock, first raid array, and ran my first water cooling setup on this board, it brings back great memories.

just love that color :love:

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

First mobo is like first-love I guess

I'm sad that VIA is no more making high-performance chipset for AMD.

pt · Dec 26, 2007

Foxconn C51XEM2AA

great oc'er, rock stable, best board i ever hard, and it had the 590sli chipset also

quickie · Dec 26, 2007

I probably haven’t gone through as many motherboards as most users here.

But no one laugh, my favourite is probably the ECS K7S5A. As some people here are old enough to remember, it was a budget socket A motherboard. It was the first motherboard (for that matter, any other computer component) that I bought with my own money. But I learnt a lot about computers when trying to “tweak” this thing. After which, I had enough knowledge to buy an Abit NF2 board and really started to overclock.

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

Wow! A lot (or maybe all) of us seem to have an AMD board as our favourite :eek:

zOaib · Dec 26, 2007

ASUS A8V Deluxe WiFi - AP Solo , was my first serious board , where i took my love of gaming to a new level , with a amd 4000+ Clawhammer , 2gb of kingston ddr 333 , 160 gb hd and a x800 pro asus vid card , later unlocked the pipes on it to make it an xtpe edition.

then with an AMD X2 4400+ Toledo i got this one and had 2gb corsair xms led and x1800 xt
ASUS A8N SLi

then with the upgrade to an e6600 and 4gb g-skill ddr2 800 and a x1900xt >> x1950 xtx >>> 7900 gt .... 7950 gt >>> HD 2900 XT 1GB as on this board
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi - AP

and now with my current setup i have the Asus P5E X38 Mobo (my favourite of them all yet).

zCexVe · Dec 26, 2007

My all time fav is the current using MSI K8N Diamond plus.Every enthusiast thing started with this mobo,OCing,High end graphics,RAID and mobo got hell of accessories and features with it.I love it so much.Also Its kinda beautiful to look at.Way better than a gigabyte mobo.They sux at colour matching.

Deleted member 3 · Dec 26, 2007

Abit BP6, though the Asus PC-DL comes close.

btarunr · Dec 26, 2007

You've put-up your entire collection, ey Zoaib?

PaulieG · Dec 26, 2007

DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D. Not even a question. Had more fun tweaking this thing than most of my boards put together. Super stable for me too!!

Processor	AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz
Motherboard	ASUS A8V-VM SE
Cooling	Stock
Memory	1GB DDR400
Video Card(s)	DiamondViper Radeon X1650PRO 512MB PCI-e
Storage	Seagate 250GB SATA
Display(s)	Acer AL2002W 20" LCD Widescreen
Case	cheap
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster
Power Supply	500 watt
Software	Vista Ultimate
Benchmark Scores	4.1 Vista index

System Name	RBMK-1000
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming
Cooling	DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory	2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage	Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s)	BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case	Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s)	ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse	ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard	Gamdias Hermes E2
Software	Windows 11 Pro

Processor	AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz
Motherboard	ASUS A8V-VM SE
Cooling	Stock
Memory	1GB DDR400
Video Card(s)	DiamondViper Radeon X1650PRO 512MB PCI-e
Storage	Seagate 250GB SATA
Display(s)	Acer AL2002W 20" LCD Widescreen
Case	cheap
Audio Device(s)	Creative SoundBlaster
Power Supply	500 watt
Software	Vista Ultimate
Benchmark Scores	4.1 Vista index

System Name	RBMK-1000
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming
Cooling	DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory	2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage	Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s)	BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case	Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s)	ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply	Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse	ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard	Gamdias Hermes E2
Software	Windows 11 Pro

Processor	Amd Athlon X2 4600+ Windsor(90nm) EE(65W) @2.9-3.0 @1.45
Motherboard	Biostar Tforce [Nvidia] 550
Cooling	Thermaltake Blue Orb-- bunch of other fans here and there....
Memory	2 gigs (2x1gb) of patriot ddr2 800 @ 4-4-4-12-2t
Video Card(s)	Sapphire X1950pro Pci-E x16 @stock@stock on stock
Storage	Seagate 7200.11 250gb Drive, WD raptors (30/40) in Raid 0
Display(s)	ANCIENT 15" sony lcd, bought it when it was like 500 bucks
Case	Apevia X-plorer blue/black
Audio Device(s)	Onboard- Why get an sound card when you can hum??
Power Supply	Antec NeoHe 550-manufactured by seasonic -replacement to the discontinued smart power series
Software	Windows XP pro SP2 -- vista is still crap

Processor	AMD FX 8320 @ 4GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 rev1
Cooling	Corsair H70
Memory	4 x 4GB DDR3 Ripjawz 1600Mhz
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Vapor-X AMD R9 280X
Storage	1 x 500GB Samsung Evo 850, 1 x 500GB Vrap Data Drive, 3 x 2TB Seagate, 1 x 1TB Samsung F1
Display(s)	3 x DGM IPS-2402WDH
Case	Coolermaster HAF X
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Coolermaster 1000W Silent Pro M
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Logitech G510
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

Processor	INTEL CORE I9-9900K @ 5Ghz all core 4.7Ghz Cache @1.305 volts
Motherboard	ASUS PRIME Z390-P ATX
Cooling	CORSAIR HYDRO H150I PRO RGB 360MM 6x120mm fans push pull
Memory	CRUCIAL BALLISTIX 3000Mhz 4x8 32gb @ 4000Mhz
Video Card(s)	EVGA GEFORECE RTX 2080 SUPER XC HYBRID GAMING
Storage	ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB 3D NAND NVMe,Intel 660p 1TB m.2 ,1TB WD Blue 3D NAND,500GB WD Blue 3D NAND,
Display(s)	50" Sharp Roku TV 8ms responce time and Philips 75Hz 328E9QJAB 32" curved
Case	BLACK LIAN LI O11 DYNAMIC XL FULL-TOWER GAMING CASE,
Power Supply	1600 Watt
Software	Windows 10

Processor	Core I5 4440 / 4430
Motherboard	Asus z87-k / Gigabyte ga h97- d3h
Cooling	Arctic freezer / Generic
Memory	8 gb Mushkin / Various
Video Card(s)	Radeon 7850 cf / Gtx 690
Storage	Samsung 850 EVO 250 gb / 2x1 terabyte hdds Wd 256 gb nvme
Display(s)	Technika 32" / Asus 24` ips
Case	Corsair
Audio Device(s)	X-fi Titanium
Power Supply	Corsair 850 w
Software	Windows 10

System Name	old school / new school
Processor	3.0e C0 @ 3.6 / e5200
Motherboard	p4p800e-dlx / p5q-DLX
Cooling	custom water see sig / air
Memory	2x1g oczPC4000EbPl / 2x2g ocz2rpr1066
Video Card(s)	3850AGP / 4890vaporX
Storage	36g raptor+120g wd / wd 1001fals 1tb
Display(s)	BenQ / sharpAQUOS LC-37D64U
Case	modded antec plusview / generic
Audio Device(s)	audigy 2zs / ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3
Power Supply	fan/cable modded powerstream 520 / OCZ 700mxsp
Software	Xp pro SP2 / VISTA ultimate OEM

Processor	Intel Core i7 10850K@5.2GHz
Motherboard	AsRock Z470 Taichi
Cooling	Corsair H115i Pro w/ Noctua NF-A14 Fans
Memory	32GB DDR4-3600
Video Card(s)	RTX 2070 Super
Storage	500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache
Display(s)	Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28"
Case	Fractal Design Define S
Audio Device(s)	Onboard is good enough for me
Power Supply	eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	TOO MUCH RADIATOR! \| The TV Box a.k.a. The Shoebox
Processor	Core i7 4930K @ 4.5GHz \| Core i5 6600K @ 4.5GHz
Motherboard	Asus X79 Rampage IV Extreme \| Asus Z170i Pro Gaming
Cooling	Custom water on CPU and GPU, dual 360mm radiators \| Corsair H80i
Memory	4x 8GB G.Skill TridentX DDR3-1600 \| 2x 4GB G.Skill RipJaws 4 DDR4-3000
Video Card(s)	Sapphire AMD R9 295x2 \| PowerColor AMD HD7970
Storage	Samsung SSD 830 256GB, various others \| 2x 1TB Seagate Barracudas in RAID1
Display(s)	Dell U2713HM 2560x1440 IPS \| Panasonic TC-L32E5 1080p IPS TV
Case	Thermaltake Suppressor F51 (stripped down to hold two radiators) \| Cooler Master Elite 130
Audio Device(s)	RM-DAC -> Xiang Sheng 708b -> Sennheiser HD650 \| HDMI sound device on 7970
Power Supply	LEPA G1600-MA 1600W \| Corsair CX750M 750W
Software	Win 10 64
Benchmark Scores	over 9000 BungholioMarks, "Bitchin' Fast"

Processor	AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 (Trinidad)
Motherboard	ASUS F3Ka (ATI RS690M)
Cooling	stock
Memory	Nanya 2x1GB ddr2 667@5-5-5-15-2T
Video Card(s)	ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 512MB DDR2@ 580mhz/486mhz
Storage	160GB on laptop+250GB external
Display(s)	ASUS 15.4
Case	Asus Laptop F3Ka chassis
Audio Device(s)	on-board
Power Supply	1:30minutes battery
Software	"genui xp", 'cause i hated vista

Processor	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @3.0Ghz
Motherboard	Gigabyte P35-DS3L rev2.0
Cooling	Xigamtek S1283, 2x Antec TriCool 120mm Case fans
Memory	2x2GB OCZ, DDR2-800
Video Card(s)	ASUS Radeon 3450 256mb
Storage	WD 640GB AAKS; WD 500GB AAKS
Display(s)	Dell 23" SP2309W
Case	Sonata II
Audio Device(s)	Audigy 2ZS
Power Supply	OCZ GameXStream 700W modded with Scythe SFF21e

System Name	BabaJinn's U.F.O
Processor	Intel Core i7 975 Extreme @ 3.8 ghz (for now)
Motherboard	Asus Rampage Xtreme II X58
Cooling	ZALMAN 9900 CPU COOLER Led
Memory	12GB Crucial Ballistix Tracers (Blue Led) 1600 DDR3
Video Card(s)	MSI NVIDIA GTX 480 1.5 GB DDR5 384-BIT
Storage	2 x WD Velociraptor 10k rpm 300GB sata + 2x 500GB WD Caviar Sata + 320 GB Seagate Barracuda Sata
Display(s)	DELL U2711 27inch Goodness @ 2560 x 1440
Case	Mountain-Mods U2-UFO Custom Case (Made in USA)
Audio Device(s)	Supreme FX X-Fi MB (Creative)
Power Supply	ZALMAN 1000W PSU MODULAR
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (Retail Version)

Processor	5800x(2)/5700g/5600x/5600g/2700x/1700x/1700
Motherboard	MSI B550 Carbon (2)/ MSI z490 Unify/Asus Strix B550-F/MSI B450 Tomahawk (3)
Cooling	EK AIO 360 (2)/EK AIO 240, Arctic Cooling Freezer II 280/EVGA CLC 280/Noctua D15/Cryorig M9(2)
Memory	32 GB Ballistix Elite/32 GB TridentZ/16GB Mushkin Redline Black/16 GB Dominator
Video Card(s)	Asus Strix RTX3060/EVGA 970(2)/Asus 750 ti/Old Quadros
Storage	Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB/WD Black M.2 NVMe 500GB/Adata 500gb NVMe
Display(s)	Acer 1080p 22"/ (3) Samsung 22" 1080p
Case	(2) Lian Li Lancool II Mesh/Corsair 4000D /Phanteks Eclipse 500a/Be Quiet Pure Base 500/Bones of HAF
Power Supply	EVGA Supernova 850G(2)/EVGA Supernova GT 650w/Phantek Amps 750w/Seasonic Focus 750w
Mouse	Generic Black wireless (5)
Keyboard	Generic Black wireless (5)
Software	Win 10/Ubuntu

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