PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX Review

Overall Rating

Simple layout of board

Limited upgrades i.e. components
AGP Cards can be unstable
No BIOS Archives

This board is quite good if you are looking for a simple machine e.g. Internet and low spec games.

It is really stable when you use the stuff on-board i.e.. sound card and graphics.

When I used this machine on Windows 95 - XP Professional SP 2 there were no problems at all.

But... I had major problems upgrading my Graphics card from the on-board graphics to a NVIDIA Geforce 4 440MX SE AGP.

The machine became unstable and continually crashed. The only way around this problem was to physically remove the card from the slot and go back to on-board graphics, and then download an AGP Rate programme and change AGP Rate to 1x, instead of the usual 4x. There is no difference in performance when you do this, but it adds a a lot more time and fiddling around with cases and screws on to the installation.

The massive downside of this board for me, is that you are stuck with the processor that is on the board at the time, and there is no way of upgrading this, and overclocking makes my machine become really unstable.

The only reason for upgrading for me was I wanted to play games and do multiple tasks.

There isn't much good support for this board from the manufacturer in my opinion, i.e. there are no archives of BIOS releases, but there is for the board components.

But if you are looking for a cheap easy to use board that won't let you down and will run and run this board is great.