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Biostar M7VIB Motherboard

Biostar M7VIB Motherboard
Overall Rating: Product Rating: 3.5

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A nice board

Written: Oct 28 '02

Product Rating: Product Rating: 5.0
Pros: Relatively inexpensive 4 DDR DIMM slots Reasonably fast Onboard sound (a plus for me)

Cons: IDE and ATX Power connection layout needs work No other onboard peripherals

The Bottom Line: A solid buy, now selling for less than half of what I paid.
dvpierce's Full Review: Biostar M7VIB Motherboard
Always stable, mine's been chugging along over a year now. Technology i supposed to work this way - I've got absolutely no complaints. I would recommend this board or its successor, the M7VIF (uses DDR333 instead of DDR266) to anybody.

I may be crazy, but I think it may be a bit big for a single-processor board. It fit in my case just fine, but it's a bit of a pain to get it in and out - not that the case doesn't have anything to do with that... :-)

One pointer: when I replaced the Northbridge Heatsink/Fan combo with a larger heatsink, it wouldn't boot into windows right away - I had to disable the Health Monitor display on startup. The system was confused because the fan wasn't there to draw power.

Recommended:
Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 130
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