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Although it appears that the board has run stable the past week, it DOES NOT like dealing with my Maxtor One Touch 4 external drive. Even with PCI USB 2.0, it appears that the motherboard does not give enough juice to USB devices which require a lot of power. So, in the end, the PC Chips M848A REV 5.0 motherboard is still a sub-par motherboard.
As stated in my earlier review about the PC Chips M848 Rev 2.1, the motherboard was very temperamental, did not play well with new hardware, and crashed very easily.
That said, I purchased a PC Chips M848a v 5.0 motherboard in hopes I could save my old socket 462 workhorse.
Overall, it was a success.
The board took my AMD Duron process and old 184 Pin ram just fine. One oddity was that the older M848A had 3 ram slots, v5.0 only had 2.
Anyways, all my old hardware (ethernet card, capture card, video card) worked just fine. I even got a chance to test out a mod I did to my old Radeon 9600XT. The fan burned out on it so I bought a tiny fan at Fry`s (our local tech store), and cold welded it onto the heat sink, it works great and have had no problems since.
Hard drive and DVD-rom detected just fine and everything has been smooth sailing. So I must say that Rev 5.0 is a definite improvement in terms of stability, upgrade ability, and temperament over it`s predecessor.
However, negative things that I found with the motherboard are:
1. Computer powers up when you plug Cat-5 into ethernet.
2. Only 2 ram slots.
3. Only 1 power input for case fan. I was hoping for 2 since I am using a Full size ATX case with 3 case fans. Not too worry, I also purchased a 3 pin male to 4 pin female power adapter to allow all the fans to work.
Overall, a decent motherboard for 36 bucks (after shipping + tax), much cheaper then buying a new rig.
PC Chips M848A Rev 5.0 Review
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UPDATEAlthough it appears that the board has run stable the past week, it DOES NOT like dealing with my Maxtor One Touch 4 external drive. Even with PCI USB 2.0, it appears that the motherboard does not give enough juice to USB devices which require a lot of power. So, in the end, the PC Chips M848A REV 5.0 motherboard is still a sub-par motherboard.
As stated in my earlier review about the PC Chips M848 Rev 2.1, the motherboard was very temperamental, did not play well with new hardware, and crashed very easily.
That said, I purchased a PC Chips M848a v 5.0 motherboard in hopes I could save my old socket 462 workhorse.
Overall, it was a success.
The board took my AMD Duron process and old 184 Pin ram just fine. One oddity was that the older M848A had 3 ram slots, v5.0 only had 2.
Anyways, all my old hardware (ethernet card, capture card, video card) worked just fine. I even got a chance to test out a mod I did to my old Radeon 9600XT. The fan burned out on it so I bought a tiny fan at Fry`s (our local tech store), and cold welded it onto the heat sink, it works great and have had no problems since.
Hard drive and DVD-rom detected just fine and everything has been smooth sailing. So I must say that Rev 5.0 is a definite improvement in terms of stability, upgrade ability, and temperament over it`s predecessor.
However, negative things that I found with the motherboard are:
1. Computer powers up when you plug Cat-5 into ethernet.
2. Only 2 ram slots.
3. Only 1 power input for case fan. I was hoping for 2 since I am using a Full size ATX case with 3 case fans. Not too worry, I also purchased a 3 pin male to 4 pin female power adapter to allow all the fans to work.
Overall, a decent motherboard for 36 bucks (after shipping + tax), much cheaper then buying a new rig.
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Cody
try runnin this for fun ^_^
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=G7ESZ-WB-R
Phil
only thing on NewEgg.com that was socket 462.
Cody
why didnt you listen at first phillio I told ya pc chips are nothing but unreliable pieces of shiznit boards
THe King
Shut the fuck up bitch
blblblb i fucked up ftf QQzzz
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-King
Jesse
What has FTF come to... Now im getting reviews of motherboards...
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