TYAN motherboards...anyone has something to say?

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Any experiences with those?

Any other (better) brand of mobos to recomend to me?

[Darius Wey]

I'm not sure what supply is in Panama, but Asus or Gigabyte are worth looking at. They tend to be more widely recognised.

[Dave Beauvais]

I've got a machine running here that's built with an old-school Socket 370 Tyan board. It's been running basically 24/7 for about three years and has been rock solid the whole time. No experience with any of their newer boards, though. Support was good when the board was supported, but BIOS and other updates are no longer being produced for this particular board. I'd probably buy a Tyan again based on my experience with this one.

I've also built systems with Asus boards and had very few problems with them. I tend to avoid "budget" boards like DFI, Elitegroup, etc.

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I'm not sure what supply is in Panama, but Asus or Gigabyte are worth looking at. They tend to be more widely recognised.
Jejeje :cry: :roll: :? :oops: no supply of ANYTHING here but mainstream ready to use computers by HP and ACER. Dell is barely starting to appear in the local market.

This means, however, than aside from selling policies, I am free of choosing almost anything (I couldn't buy from Crucial memory for their selling policies)

I've got a machine running here that's built with an old-school Socket 370 Tyan board. It's been running basically 24/7 for about three years and has been rock solid the whole time. No experience with any of their newer boards, though. Support was good when the board was supported, but BIOS and other updates are no longer being produced for this particular board. I'd probably buy a Tyan again based on my experience with this one.

I've also built systems with Asus boards and had very few problems with them. I tend to avoid "budget" boards like DFI, Elitegroup, etc.

Thanks. Very encouraging info.

However, I have a question: what actually makes a board to be "budget"? For I see prices are similar. Would you say Foxconn is a budget brand? I see some prices of them that are almost unbelievable for 865 chipsets...less than 40 bucks.

And, what abour Intel boards? Are those particularily compatible with Intel CPUs???

[Darius Wey]

However, I have a question: what actually makes a board to be "budget"? For I see prices are similar. Would you say Foxconn is a budget brand? I see some prices of them that are almost unbelievable for 865 chipsets...less than 40 bucks.

And, what abour Intel boards? Are those particularily compatible with Intel CPUs???

Foxconn, IMO, would be considered as a "generic" brand. The differences between the generic brands, and your more widely recognised brands, is that the latter tends to devote more time to improving the technologies delivered in the motherboards, and as such, help deliver better performance, etc.

When there are new chipsets devised, there will almost always be the standard generic motherboards created. The generic brands will tend to release just the "generic motherboard", while the widely recognised brands will tend to take it a few steps further and optimise the internal processes to help deliver better performance, and even future compatibility in some cases. While the latter is more expensive, you may find that the extra performance boost, greater compatibility and what not are well worth the extra dollars.

[ChunkyMonkey]

I haven't built a system for a couple of years. Now I just suggest that my family buys a Dell. ABIT was always my first choice and Tyan was my second. I have built about 15 systems and those were the ones I had the best luck with. BTW, I had horrible luck with Gigabite. I went through three boards before getting a good one. mWave.com took very good care of me. They are not the cheapest online store, but when you have problems, they always take care of you.