Which is best ...

[AndreL]

Which is more important the chipset or the maker of the motherboard when shopping for a mobo. I know thay are the same thing but bear with me. Which is more important in the equation of what to look for when buying a motherboard. As in - the chipset is more well know put the people who put the mobo together not well not known (or) A well known mobo maker and a chipset not all that well known. O yea which mobo is better one that supports a larger veriety of cpu or one that supports a samller veriety.

Oh yea

Thanks in Adv ....

[sam]

i find that the best thing to do is find several mobos with features that you are lookin for, in a price range you are wanting to spend and do a little reading on costomer reviews. then befor you buy reserch the company/vendor your are buying from to see if other costomers have had good or bad results with that vendor

[ArcticFox]

That's an interesting question. In regards to "bad" mobo makers, I don't fully agree with you. You can buy "cheap" boards (like PCChips) with high-end nForce2's and such that work fine, but for me it would depend on how I would be using the machine. For my main box, I'd go with a top-end board with lots of features, but for a quaint Linux box or a basic server one with a reliable chipset would be better than a board with features.

[Darthgary]

Well there is good and there is bad, 80% of it is good so you will know when you come across something that sucks.

I mean like!

MSI K7N2 with Nforce 2 chipset compared to something like, Super Boards with Altimate Bridge master 2 chipset. LOL!

Usually where there is a crappy motherboard, there is a crappy chipset. Cant go wrong really.

But to answer your question. I would rather go with a good board maker and a crappy chipset.