BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: None

Cons: None

Overall Review: First you guys that are having trouble with dual channel. The directions are wrong. You need to put your DRAMS in every other slot like all NVIDA boards. This board runs dual channel GREAT! Secondly, if you want to up the FSB you have to drop HTT to 4 due to Hypertransport limitations. i.e. 1000 is the MAX well you might squeeze a little more than that ..but why? Finally get yourself some good tools to work with. Download CPUZ or SiSoftSandra to check the freg your memory is running at. The memory op speed is a function on the CPU mulitplier or the Hammer as this BIOS calls it. Example if your CPU mulipler is 11 and your FSB is 250 then set your Mem. Freq to 200. You'll get DDR 500 1 to 1 if your memory can handle it. Otherwise the memory dividers will start auto kicking in.

Also you guys running 4 DRAMs no board will do 1T with 4 slots running.

My Sytem:
3700 SD core @ 2.75 vcore 1.52(mine under volts pretty badly get CPUZ or something to check with or the hardware software
shipped with the board isn't bad)
1 gig Ballistix DDR 500
Connect3D 800GTO (unlocked to 16 pipes 540/570)
2 80GIG Hitachi SATAII in RAID 0
350 Watt MATX power supply
el cheap case

I'm still freakin' out on how little this set up cost compared to how fast this baby is! I'm just a whisper under FX-57 performace and this entire system cost less than 2/3 of the price of that chip. AND IT ALL CAME FROM RIGHT HERE AT NEWEGG!

Pros: I've built a ton of machines with these, and I know they're a wonderful board for the price. Decent video, easy overclocker, great budget gaming board.

Cons: I went with an open box, and it had bad video (everything looked fine, but couldn't get any 3d aps to run, nor did the dxdiag 3d test work). Yes, tried every combination of drivers/BIOS version I could think of, starting with a completely fresh HD every time in Win2k/XP, and Linux. Also tested memory and cpu, and tried others of both just in case. No luck.

Overall Review: I have been quite impressed with this board, even with the video. Part of my 'testing' when building a machine is to play all the games I like to, and I've even been *very* impressed with the onboard video - impressed enough to finally get myself one. I just had bad luck, and have ordered a new MB instead. We shall see! Oh, and newegg gets 5 eggs for service.