stuff to avoid

[rjz]

What motherboards, chipsets and controllers should I avoid buying? I am going to be biulding some systems in semi mass production. Are there any specific brands not to get. These will be custom systems.

[LiquidSage]

IMO, stay away from..

-Anything refurbished or used that is hardware related (mobo, vid card, CPU, etc)

-Mobo - ECS and/or VIA chipsets (nothing but bad mojo experiences...esp.with ECS)

ASUS PNP800 (Board design is lacking compared to ABIT

I have become partiall to SIS chipsets as they seem to be the only ones that have 133 ATA IDE controller support and have been flawless so far.

-Powercolor video cards., ATI X600 series

-WD hard drives (their quality has taken a nose dive in recent years)

-Prescott 478 based CPU's

Edited November 5, 2005 by LiquidSage

[bledd]

personally, i ONLY use WD hard drives in systems that I build, and have had no problems with over 30 drives in the past few years

[ripken204]

why dont you tell us what you want?

[rjz]

My company is going to biuld some entry level systems for around 400-500

We would like to get 10 of everything? Any good recomendations.

[quinriva]

Consider some 3000 (socket 939) Semprons, real cheap about US$95 They're good enough for gaming. Though they have only just been released so they may be hard to find at the moment.

And motherboard:

ASUS A8V-VM ~US$75, comes with decent integrated graphics.

Other than that, just add 2 sticks of 256Mb RAM (yes you'll need at least 512Mb total, 256Mb won't cut it).

Add a case and a 120Gb SATA hard drive + DVD burnen and you're looking at ~US$450.