On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:29:23AM +0000, Syd Hancock wrote:
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 10:25 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
Avoid PC-Chips.
That's interesting - can you give more details? They do some very cheap boards that do get good reviews (but maybe the fact that they are so cheap is the problem?)
I have heard things about PC-Chips using stolen Bios revisions and fake cloned chips, also using dodgy capacitors that will die after 18 months. etc. etc.
I can't confirm these stories first hand, but I have heard enough to not make me want to bother with them, good boards from experience have been those made by Asus (3yr warranty as standard) Abit, A-Open and MSI.
Oh, and I have had no problems with Via chipsets in Linux, have been using them for years they are probably one of the better makers out there. I would avoid things based on ALi chipsets though :) I think the problems with Via chipsets came from some bad integrations by motherboard manufacturers.
Adam