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after my experience with Abit boards with failing capacitors. Intel may not make the board, but when one fails I have a new one the next day. Abit takes months.
Sheesh, I thought I was one of the few that had Abit capacitor faliures. I had an BM-6 Celeron board that one day just wouldn't boot. The said most likely the bios failed. So, I bought a BE-6 II, rev 2.0. I had it for about 18 months and the same exact thing happened. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. But decided to give Gigabyte a try. as well as AMD XP cpu. When I bought the system (the one I have now) the guy said he used to love ABit. I thought they were really nice boards myself, friends of mine recommended them. He then enlightened me about ABit switching suppliers of some of their parts and that's when his customers started to have a lot of problems with failing boards - so he doesn't recommend them or use them personally anymore. Sure enough, when I got home I looked at both my boards and you could see where the tops of the capacitors actually "popped" at the top of two or three of them. Pity, I really like my ABit boards right to about the 1-1/2 year point - when both failed, and the difference between both the fails was about a week or two apart (e.g ~ +/- week within 18 months). Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dP+87WVLiDrqeksRAiZ9AJ9cJGXqgWokWc1qOl/U7MJtPdEM9ACeNtIR 25v2joGNz763SsVPml6ldRo= =5emt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----