A few questions on the PCCHIPS Tidal Wave 865PE

[Sephiroth_Yuppie]

Hi I'm new here.
So I'm building a PC for the first time,and my setup should be something like this:

Pentium 4 3ghz (Northwood)
MSI Radeon 9800 PRO
120 GB HD
8x/40x sony DVD-/+ RW/CDRW 40x
Windows XP

Now this motherboard I have,I bought for $99 (I know I overpaid a little) and when I talked to 2 of my friends who have built computers,they say it's a budget motherboard,but it's still fine for gameing.

When i posted about this motherboard on another messageboard alot of people said PCCHIPS was a bad company.
But when I asked what was spacificly wrong with the motherboard I got,noone would reply.

So I decided to come here,to hopefully get some better informed opinions on it.
I read the article on this website about the motherboard,and while that did calm my worries a little,I just wanna know if I'm gonna be allright for gameing,and general Pc use.

Thanks,and sorry for this post being so long winded.

 

[Unolocogringo]

PC Chips boards are slower than most.
Contain the cheapest components available.
Support is non existant.
A high failure rate.

The list goes on and on and on.



I aint signing nothing!!!

 

[Mr5oh]

I agree with Rick, in general PCChips uses low quality components, and aren't necessarily a great board for performance. (They have boards as cheap as $24, I don't know anyone who makes a board for that price, you get what you pay for.)

Remember that you will tend to only hear the horror stories on the internet. PCChips are known to have a little higher failure rate, but there are people out there that have had good luck with them.

I say quit worrying about it, just use it (Might want to stay away from OverClocking). Odds are, the board will be fine, and give you good use for as long as you own it.

Later down the road if it really worries you, get another board. Odds are you can't return this board, so you really aren't losing anything to use it, and like I said, odds are it will last your quite a while.

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[Crashman]

You could have actually gotten a good quality, full featured board (Abit IS&) for $10 less.

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[Cybercraig]

Return that board immediately and get an ABIT IS7, or, we will track you down and it won't be pretty! {laugh]


Abit IS7 - 2.8C @ 3.4 - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!