BIOSTAR NF44XA7COMBVGA1 754 NVIDIA nForce4 4X ATX Motherboard / VGA Combo

Pros: Worked without any problems. Installed an AMD 64 3000+ with 1.5gb of memory. Runs fine.

Cons: Doesn't perform as well as I thought on benchmarks. I wasn't expecting a gaming rig but I did expect the nVidia 7100gs to perform better then the aging 6600 that was in the system, it didn't.

Overall Review: System runs stable and works for what I needed it for.

Pros: Great Board, Nice features in the BIOS. Plug and Play, little to no configuration required

Cons: They advertise this combo as having a GeForce 7100 256MB Card. It's actually a 128MB card. It is the only low scoring item according to Windows Vista Scoring Index.

Pros: I purchsed this mobo to replace my favorite AOpen mobo that the AGP slot failed after almost 3 years of heavy use. The AOpen board still works wih a PCI video card, but just not the same and after seeing what PCI Express can do to boost the old 754 CP's performance over AGP I felt that the Biostar mobo would do me a favor and keep my older system running and it did just that. It is a bit finicky about IDE and SATA settings, but once I got those sorted out the system runs great. The cheap PCI-E card works fine for what it is though I would replace it with an MSI NX8400GS card and get better perfomance on the cheap! One should not waste a lot of money to keep an old dated system going, but it works great for what it is and I run Lnux in a Virtual Box setup alongwith WinXP Pro and no complaints. Hopefully it will run for anther 3 years or more. I would recommend it to anyone who has an old 754 CPU and wants to upgrade their system rather than buy all new stuff.

Cons: NVidea firewall more pain than it is worth don't bother using it Comodo is free and better! Wish it came with better video card, but that's being a chronic complainer!

Overall Review: 4th Biostar mobo so far so good-one board had a faulty CPU temp reading making the CPU seem to run 10 degrees hotter than norm-switched CPU to other boards and 3 out of 4 read normal-so if you think your CPU is running hot it may be a faulty mobo instead!

Pros: Just as it should be, the parts are compatible and are contained nicely in one box. It all worked flawlessly with my Sempron 3400+. I noticed a nice performance boost for some reason when I ran Memtest86+ v 2.01 in the memory through put from my old Samsung RAM when I ran it to test the memory slots. When I ran Knoppix v.5.10, it found and configured all on board devices which worked quite well. The NIC, which is a Realtek chip,gave me the expected through put on my home 100 MbLAN. The video card is a silent GeForce 7100 based one so I am not expecting too much there but then again it won't be used for gaming anyway. This board and video combo is quite usable as a second desktop with reasonable performance. I would recommend it be used as a workstation rather than a gaming machine.

Cons: The price went up since I bought mine. It is a Socket 754 board which is old tech but quite usable depending on your intentions. As a gaming machine you would need a top level processor which would be quite hard to find and video upgrade, so it would be rather pointless.

Overall Review: I bought this as a back up board for my home server which uses a low power Sempron chip.

Pros: For an old 754 amd 3000+ this board is very nice and well put together the bios has all the sets you can think of and the video card is alsome to on top of is nice way to stay up to date with out spending alot of money very nice board

Cons: it be better if it were pci express 16 2.0 but it still pretty fast

Pros: The Biostar mobo is what it is... I needed a quick, low cost board for a GeForce 7600 GS PCI Express graphics card and a 754 AMD Sempron to run Vista. I received exactly what I ordered.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I just wanted to say I am very pleased to do business with Newegg. Very professional, timely, and accurate.

Pros: Runs extremely cool (30c) with AMD 3400 Sempron. Supplied PCI video card performs better than any 256 I have (4). Blew my mind. If you need a book to con figure the bios buy ASUS. This is my second one because of the very cool operating temp. Get one before 754 socket boards become obsolete!

Cons: None

Overall Review: I build desktops for a hobby and before I give them to someone I load them and push the system (XP PRO) to the to the software max. No failers yet and I push them to the max!

Pros: Board worked perfect right out of the box.

Cons: None