--- Graham Smith
I need to buy four new machines for the office to be used as workstations, and was after some guidance on the motherboard and CPU. Will probably equip them with 256M of ram and the Matrox G450 Video card and 20G IDE Hard disk.
Sounds solid. Just slap a Tyan motherboard underneath it, and you'll be ready to go.
Can anyone recommend a decent motherboard that works without problems.
It doesn't exist. With a Tyan-brand board, though, you'll have *fewer* problems. I also like (from experience) EPoX, MSI, Gigabyte, and I like the looks of the QDI KD7-A, but have no experience with it. I have never had a decent EPoX motherboard with an Intel chipset on it, but that's my only caveat. I also have extremely bad luck with any orange PCB devices of any type (don't ask) and prefer to stick with green. Also, you should buy it on a Tuesday. Just kidding about the Tuesday bit...
I think the main problems is getting a stable board that is specifically designed for the AMD processors.
This statement doesn't make sense. You can't put an AMD processor on a board designed for another CPU...they're such different animals. The chipset on the board is what's important; if you want speed, you can't have stability. If you want stability, you can't have speed; they're mutually exclusive. Or, if you prefer, "Good, Fast, Cheap; pick any two." :) Here's an article on some new ones: http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q4/011126/index.html
Any help would be appreciated.
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