The A7n8X family got a lot of complaints for while last summer.
Haven't heard any new complaints in a while. A buddy just got the basic A7n8X with the 333 mhz FSB chipset and he's loving it, but his gainward ge4-4200 would not work at all with it or another 333 MB he has. I suspect the factory overclocking in the Gainward was the problem.
EPOX makes an unexciting (not much in the way of overclocking or fancy stuff) but reliable motherboard. Some friends and I have been passing one around the country as a loaner for 2 years. No problems. On the up side unexciting also means low risk.
That board has 400 Mhz FSB but does not support dual ddr, its the old nforce2 chipset. The 8RDA3I uses the nforce2 ultra that should support dual ddr but they don't mention it on their web site. That kinda lowers my opinion of them. Either they don't support the feature or they're too stupid to put it on their web site. Not a good sign.
Gigabyte also makes a reliable MB, but follow on support with bios updates has been pretty bad.
Haven't heard any new complaints in a while. A buddy just got the basic A7n8X with the 333 mhz FSB chipset and he's loving it, but his gainward ge4-4200 would not work at all with it or another 333 MB he has. I suspect the factory overclocking in the Gainward was the problem.
EPOX makes an unexciting (not much in the way of overclocking or fancy stuff) but reliable motherboard. Some friends and I have been passing one around the country as a loaner for 2 years. No problems. On the up side unexciting also means low risk.
That board has 400 Mhz FSB but does not support dual ddr, its the old nforce2 chipset. The 8RDA3I uses the nforce2 ultra that should support dual ddr but they don't mention it on their web site. That kinda lowers my opinion of them. Either they don't support the feature or they're too stupid to put it on their web site. Not a good sign.
Gigabyte also makes a reliable MB, but follow on support with bios updates has been pretty bad.