I am Looking for Suggestions for a new motherboard

[Nixon]

I have a Tyan S2266 motherboard with Via chipset. I put a P 4 1.7 cpu, 256 DDR RAM. My radeon 9000 or a Geforce 4 MX 440 video cards and my aopen 840 sound card does not work on it. I am Very unhappy with the board. I am looking for suggestions what would be a good board to go with. Keeping a balance with price and quality. thanks

[EvLwMn]

Asus and MSI make excellent boards. The P4B533 from Asus would be one of my first choices as the price on them is down ($115 at newegg). If you want 8X capability - the P4S8X is running $135 at newegg.

For MSI boards, the 645E Max2-LRU is a pretty nice board for $112 at newegg and the 845GE Max-L $95 is also a pretty good deal. I all depends on what you want and what your budget is.

I hope that helped.

Oh - and welcome to the board Nixon!!

[Nixon]

Yes thank you that does help. When i started looking around for a board i found that there is just too many choices. trying to keep it under $100 but then again whatever it takes to get something that works good. thanks again for your help.

[Foolhardy]

Soyo SY-P4VX2L VIA P4X400 DRAGON Lite ATX Motherboard $87

ABIT Model SR7-8X $89

ASUS P4S533 $98

ABIT BE7 $99

budget: ABIT SA7 $64, ASUS P4S333 $70

[Toby B.]

Well to better give a recommendation for a new motherboard we would need specific feature requirements:

Such as:

8x capable
LAN
RAID
USB 2.0

Toby

[Nixon]

4x, 5 PCI slots, socket 478,. On board lan is fine but i do have two pci network cards in right now. I have PC 2100 DDR Ram.

[Toby B.]

Have you viewed Our motherboard reviews list yet?

you should be happy with boards from Asus, MSI, and other manufacturers already listed in this thread.

Toby