Albatron Mobo

[DuNgA]

Anyone heard of Albatron mobo's before?

I was surfing for a mobo and came across this website.

Its a socket 478 mobo. Fsb reaching as high as 1200mhz?

http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=98

[morriswindgate]

Albatron was formed by a couple of engineers that worked for Gigabyte. As such they perform similar to Gigabyte boards. A lot of people buy Gigabyte boards, but I will not use them so I also will not use the Albatron clone.
The reason for this is that over the years on this forum I have noticed a lot of people have some really strange problemswith Gigabyte boards.
I will only use Asus, Epox, Abit, or Soltek boards and have been getting away from the Solteks.
At this time the Epox boards are some of the best buys out there. Equal in quality to ASUS, but less money.

[skeeter]

I have had troubles with ASUS. I have had two ASUS boards, both bad. The first an 815 board was flaky but worked somewaht. The second was just bad. It was a P4B533 which many had good luck with. I have also used a number of Albatron boards with good success. I am running one in my main computer, overclocked. I like them but there are limitations for overclocking. My CPU would go higher but there are not many memory adjustments. They do have a PCI bus lock so this is good. Years ago I had an EPOX board and had to send it back as nothing I could do would make it work right. I guess it comes down to the luck of the draw. Soltek and ABIT boards have also worked well for me.

[pc master]

i just bought an albacomp 2440 from pc world for £329 it has a intel celron 2.4 and 40 gb hard drive 128mb ram