PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX Reviews
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“I would recommend PC Chips M810 for anyone not looking...”
Written on: 28/05/2008
I would recommend PC Chips M810 for anyone not looking to do anything really big. Works fine. built in card is good though I have a Geforce4 440 MX series on mine. Looking forward to several more years of use not yet even thinking of upgrading. (read more)
“I am planning on buying a new computer and definitely...”
Written on: 07/01/2008
I am planning on buying a new computer and definitely feel nostalgic about letting this one go, helped me through my engineering career. Hours of effort and strong work are under this chipset. I am actually selling it and hoping to extract a few more ounces of rejoice from it. (read more)
“This board is quite good if you are looking for a...”
Written on: 03/10/2005 by billyg (4 reviews written)
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...
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“I ran the PC Chips M810 motherboard for 2 years on...”
Written on: 01/09/2005 by mozart98 (1 review written)
I ran the PC Chips M810 motherboard for 2 years on Windows 98 with almost no problems. Then I loaded XP Pro in a dual boot configuration, which is kind of neat to do. In Win XP, the computer would freeze, the keyboard and mouse had no action, and looking at the reports of XP had no reason for the freeze.
I investigated everything, and logic said it must be the software (as Windows 98 is still perfect). I looked for over 6 months for the problem, then I bought a used video card, 64MB, and...
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“I got a new computer for Christmas of 2002 and I have...”
Written on: 13/08/2005 by brian10161 (6 reviews written)
I got a new computer for Christmas of 2002 and I have been using a lot in the past two and a half years. I only made one upgrade to this computer about a week after getting it. I'm only 15, so I don't have a budget yet. Well anyway, the upgrade I made was going from the onboard AGP GPU, to a faster more dedicated video card, and ATi Radeon 7000, that I got for $50 brand new. I installed the card, it worked perfectly the first time I installed it. Now I can play some games on this that rival... (read more)
Rabrams's Response to brian10161's Review
Written on: 23/01/2007
Hi Brian. I also have a PC chips motherboard, bought in 2002, and I also added RAM to it one time. It has 512RAM and still runs slowly. Any idea if the motherboard can take higher RAM? And if so, how much? I don't know the model or serial number on it.
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<br/>Thanks,
<br/>Rich
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“I've had the PC Chips M810 for a few years and have...”
Written on: 07/06/2005 by Morgwen (1 review written)
I've had the PC Chips M810 for a few years and have never really had a problem per se. Points explained below:
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1. Up continueously for over 30 days with no errors.
2. See 1. Only crashes I've experienced were win98 problems.
3. Running Win XP and Redhat Linux Fedora with no problems on either.
4. It was given to me (g). But seriously, it is not expensive and for the low price you pay, you get a decent machine that will last until you can afford to upgrade (2+years owning).
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1. ...
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“The PC Chips M810L board with Athlon XP2000+, CD-RW,...”
Written on: 02/02/2005 by fireboy (1 review written)
The PC Chips M810L board with Athlon XP2000+, CD-RW, DVD, 40gb HD, WinXP home SP2, 4 USB plus 4 USB2 PCI Card. Recently added Crucial Raedon 9200SE AGP board (available from crucial.com/uk)without having to change any settings.
Board has remained stable throughout for over 2 years.
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“PC Chips' M810LR-H with AMD Duron 750mhz. Runs slow,...”
Written on: 17/12/2004 by Christov (1 review written)
PC Chips' M810LR-H with AMD Duron 750mhz. Runs slow, crashes with WinXP, and PC chips' tech support is also rubbish! (read more)
“Bottom line, the PC Chips M810 is for the birds if you...”
Written on: 15/04/2004 by leebarrett (2 reviews written)
Bottom line, the PC Chips M810 is for the birds if you are looking for anything newer than the Pinta, Nina or Santa Marie. I was beginning to think it was "just me" until I ran across this review site. Thanks for the sanity check!! With this board, keep it slow and run old Windows and you might survive. I just ordered a new ASUS and will hand this "dumbed down" boat anchor to my teenage daughter to do her homework on - it can probably handle that. (read more)
“Let's see...with the PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX...”
Written on: 11/03/2004 by cortezpjr (1 review written)
Let's see...with the PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX motherboard you get intermittent reboots, memory dumps (not the power supply I checked) Unrecongized drives, Exception errors (not the drivers or software install I checked) To be honest this is the cheapest (money and quality wise) board that you can find anywhere. Don't do it. This board is the biggest piece of.... waste of time in figuring out... Believe me when I say that it's worth paying the extra money to get a good quality board. ... (read more)
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“The Quality of the PC Chips M810 Motherboard is very...”
Written on: 16/02/2004 by strapane (2 reviews written)
The Quality of the PC Chips M810 Motherboard is very good for the price and all 4 systems I have built have performed perfectly over the past two years. Its classsic design is copied by many. Try M851 for more current features and newer video at rock bottom price. The 128-bit included video outperforms most other built-in cards and is excellent for basic computing if you aren't a gamer. It runs 98, XP, 2000, Mandrake 9, and RedHat 8 with no problems. (read more)
“I have my PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX fitted with an...”
Written on: 30/12/2003 by mbtwenty3ib (1 review written)
I have my PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX fitted with an AMD 1700+ and 512mbRAM with an ATI Xpert2000 Pro (32mb SDRAM AGP4*) and I have experienced many game play problems and multipul WINXP issues. (read more)
“All in all you get what you pay for. But for a cheepie...”
Written on: 19/12/2003 by J D Anderson (1 review written)
All in all you get what you pay for. But for a cheepie the PC Chips M810 Motherboard is generaly a goodie. Out of the bunch most are still in use started with a duron 1200 (900mhz actual) through 2000 (1300mhz actual) out of 94 units 50 are still in use that i know of, to satisfide coustomers, 10 came back and were upgraded with a more expencive bord and a killer chip (real athalon 2100 or faster latest one a 3200) 4 were brought back in the first month for a refund and re sold as used at a... (read more)
“Okay, here's the low down on this board. PC Chips...”
Written on: 26/09/2003 by Magus (3 reviews written)
Okay, here's the low down on this board. PC Chips (A.k.a Amptron, a.k.a. PC 266 and many more) is a generic company. You're getting what you pay for. Basically this board was designed with the purpose for mom & pop computer shops to produce a decently spec'd machine for under $250 to sell for about $350. Unfortunately, PC Chips being cheap as hell in order to supply us with a board this cheap uses subpar parts. Basically, the board doesn't have what it takes to be a good board. Your common... (read more)
Jill's Response to Magus's Review
Written on: 02/01/2004
You are right on in your review! I saddly own this board and was surfing looking for a fix for the freeze ups when I came across your review.HELP!
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Geoff04's Response to Magus's Review
Written on: 04/09/2004
It's a cheap one so the expectation should not be high. I bought it 3 years ago for $400. System stability is fine unless you try some overlocking. I changed the heat sink and CPU fan just recently because it's too noisy. Bios battery may need a change also because it can't remember the IDE setup sometimes. Overall, it's a good trade-off between money and performance and quality.
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“The cheapest motherboard I was able to find for an AMD...”
Written on: 28/08/2003 by deepz0ne (1 review written)
The cheapest motherboard I was able to find for an AMD Duron 1300MHz. The sad thing is that it makes the processor perform as a Pentium II 350MHz when you play games. It gets much much much worse if you configure the Chipset to use more than 16MB for video. Clearly the chipset can't cope with video, sound, system bus and hard disk at the same time. I think the problem resides in the fact that unlike other integrated motherboards that come with a Northbridge and a Southbridge, this one has... (read more)
“Running a AMD XP2100+ @1.66MHz and has never glitched...”
Written on: 15/08/2003 by SpankMePlz (1 review written)
Running a AMD XP2100+ @1.66MHz and has never glitched once running 512MB ram and a gforce MX420 with 64MB on it... although i have now upgraded to a way better machine esp for gaming, the M810 Motherboard did me well while i had it. Never had to flash the bios or anything to get it running fine with the 2100+ (read more)
“The PC Chips M810 Motherboard is OK but: but on the...”
Written on: 07/08/2003 by Jerry
The PC Chips M810 Motherboard is OK but: but on the last 2 boards I've purchased, at switch on, I get error messages
1: Cmos battery Low
2: incorrect Cmos fitted
I went into setup and it installed OK, and seemed OK after that while working.
I unlplugged mains and after a day, went to plug it all up again, and same faults came up again.
I changed CMOS battery; still same faults.
Am I missing something?
1800Pro+ type
Version on enclosed CD 8.15B
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“I have a rather nice, inexpensive PC based on this...”
Written on: 01/07/2003 by jervinator.
I have a rather nice, inexpensive PC based on this board. Considering the price, I expected far less than I actually got. When paired with a 300W power supply and fit with an 1100 MHz T-bird, you can easilly get a quality PC for less than the cost of most other allegedly better mainboards (bare).
That's not to say that this board is the best; it isn't. It can't support the latest CPU or RAM technologies, and it only has two PCI slots.
However, at this price, you have to like this...
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“This is an allright board, everything is built in so...”
Written on: 08/06/2003 by Al.
This is an allright board, everything is built in so it's understandable that theres only two pci slots. The onboard graphics is quite bad (as is the sound) so i'd recommend upgrading to one of the video cards they have tested, the best one is the Elsa gladiac 920 (geforce 3). Don't be fooled by the geforce 4mx series this card blows them right out of the water, it's nearly as good as the geforce 4ti series. Anyway I tested a geforce 4 mxse 128mb and it didn't work, it continued to lock up... (read more)
Dcanales's Response to 105325_Al.'s Review
Written on: 31/12/2003
I have a XFX Geforce 2 MX400 installed and it works fine.
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<br>I think the Geforce 3 is the best choice if you want top speed though.
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“I personally have 11 computers at my house including 3...”
Written on: 16/05/2003 by _Pure_XTC_.
I personally have 11 computers at my house including 3 computers that are being used as file servers and 5 computers that have been automated for online games. The 3 file servers are full of video as i do my share of video editing. I see all these people complaining it would not boot up. I can guarantee not 1 of these people who complained about the boot up problem ever read the owners manual. If they did, They would know upon shipping of this board the jumper setting is set for BIOS FLASH.... (read more)
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“Ive enjoyed my athlon system with m810 system board up...”
Written on: 11/05/2003 by Neal Hohl.
Ive enjoyed my athlon system with m810 system board up to this point but I thought with games becoming ever more taxing it was time to get a real video board. Im having the same problem with my install as the above. Black screen.
The bios does not have a specific disable for the on board video, but I noticed after I installed the hardware that the option for shared memory in bios was disabled. There are no instructions in the manual for disabling the video. If anyone has solved this problem...
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97283_Neal Hohl.'s Response to Neal Hohl.'s Review
Written on: 13/05/2003
Ok, now ive read all the reviews and Im ready to further comment. I have bought a gforce fx 5200 agp card and I'm determined to use it. If I understand what people are saying, if i install a 350W power supply, and a wind sucking fan there can still be a chance. Right?
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Lt Reed.'s Response to Neal Hohl.'s Review
Written on: 21/05/2003
I'm still fighting with it, trying to install a Tachyon G9000 Pro video card. It seems the only way to get into the BIOS is to clear the CMOS. After the BIOS has been reconfigured I cannot get back in until the CMOS has been cleared again, and all previous BIOS settings go back to the default.
<br>To disable the on-board Video, there is a line setting about the VGA Display, and the default is PCI. The other setting is AGP Onboard. Since the video card is using the only AGP slot, and AGP runs on the same bus as the onboard, I am going to try it using that setting (as recommended by a friend.) Good luck.
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J . Chad.'s Response to Neal Hohl.'s Review
Written on: 08/08/2003
if your still having problems with your gforce and m810 board(pc chips) try this....
<br> i had a problem that when i installed the gforce as agp, it would crash(pc still running black monitor) what i did was go to c.panel, performance and maintinence,system,hardware,devicemanager, then go to system devices, double click sis advanced graphics port (or it might say sis processor to agp) update driver,install from a list (advanced),dont search choose driver and choose "pci standard pci to pci bridge" restart
<br>your pc and i promise your card will work, without crashing. trust me i spent months working this out!! i now run a gforcefx5200 on my pcchips board. email me back if it helps. digitaldisease@hotmail.com
<br>P.S.. i am using win xp.
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Guitarreg's Response to Neal Hohl.'s Review
Written on: 12/08/2003
Thanks for you comments. I just purchased a gforce fx 5200 and did not have the time to invest in trial and error. I was about to take it back to the store. Tech support did not have a clue.
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<br>Again Thanks
<br>Reggie
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Neal Hohl's Response to Neal Hohl.'s Review
Written on: 17/08/2003
I have since found other problems and answers about this board. The key for me ultimately was that I was using a 250 watt power supply. I purchases a 300 watt power supply and guess what. It worked. The only bad thing is that i had a geforce2 5200 and took it back. I bought a geforce2 gts pro thinking that the 5200 was just to advanced for the board. The gts works fine and Im not sure what bang i would get for my buck upgrading.
<br>On another front. I bought starwars galaxys and becase of the lag and their suggestion that i add lots more ram, I discovered that the m810's biggest flaw is that it has problems using 2 ram chips. I had 256mb ram and bought a 512. It did not recognize the 2nd slot. My tech support says that is why they discontinued the board at their store. Doesnt make sense, but they said when tha agp slot is used it messed up the 2nd ram slot. Well ive tried every combination of ram and slots and Im stuck at 512 and have an extra 256 drawing dust in my drawer. Not going to buy a 1 gig chip. Too expensive.
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“you can buy a full duron 1.1ghz system for around...”
Written on: 06/05/2003 by Leo.
you can buy a full duron 1.1ghz system for around $600aud which is cheap, but the overall power is weak, can play quake2 with 30fps on 64mb mode, it only has 2 pci slots and 1 agp 4x, and the agp is kinda useless anyway. Not bad if you only want to use it for the net and starcraft or other 2D games (read more)
“Well, this was my first try with this board. Now It's...”
Written on: 02/05/2003 by Al.
Well, this was my first try with this board. Now It's the Last. Board failed to boot. After all the Negatives in reviews, I will go back to the ECS K7s5a. (read more)
101797_Rich.'s Response to 94116_Al.'s Review
Written on: 27/05/2003
Curious, but did you check the BIOS flash jumper as stated in other reviews, this caught me out
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<br>Rich Hargreaves
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“Personally I'm really disappointed in the quality of...”
Written on: 20/04/2003 by Danasaur.
Personally I'm really disappointed in the quality of this PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX!
Motherboards arn't supposed to just break down after just 2 years, Capacitors(Blue small cylinders) had brown acid/liquid and caused computer to smoke, also had standard graphics card incompadibilities(128mb)... If you're looking for a cheap motherboard with an AGP slot that you're willing to throw away in a couple of years, this is your choice, hopefully you'll be more fortunate than me!
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Dgw.'s Response to Danasaur.'s Review
Written on: 20/07/2003
I purchased the M810LMRT as part of a package deal, at a reasonable price, and to some respect this reflects on the quality.But having said that,this is my first go at building my own pc. One problem i encountered was the leaflet they supply which is in fact the instruction manual.I also found the onboard sound almost intolorable and added a Creative Live 5.1 card which greatly improved the sound quality. I,ve also tried improving the on board graphics with a Mercury n vidia geforce4 MX440SE 64MBDDR, but had to remove this as it continually crashed the system
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“Ive had this board about 18 months now, it came as...”
Written on: 09/04/2003 by Ben.
Ive had this board about 18 months now, it came as part of my computer and generally it hasnt been too bad.It was very easy to install (physically and software.
I bought a new geforce 4 card for it and it runs ok except for the fact that it appears to run in PCI compatabilty mode?? which is apparently a bit slower.
The other day i bought a new AMD 2000+xp processor i installed it and everything looked like it was going fine,until upon reboot i noticed that the bios said it was running at...
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Kgrbabu's Response to 87564_Ben.'s Review
Written on: 26/10/2003
Hi
<br>I just bought this board for my kid .
<br>It was good when i booted it for the first time.
<br>now it has become dead i see only hard disk light active .no boot up . can you please let me know what should i do.
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<br>reg
<br>babu
<br>kgrbabu@hotmail.com
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“After building a (Athlon 1333Mhz) system on a budget...”
Written on: 06/04/2003 by grahama89.
After building a (Athlon 1333Mhz) system on a budget for a friend the board worked fine for about 3 months. Then they decided it was time for better graphics and sound (for gaming). It ran for 10 minutes then crashed. After checking drivers and bios updates without any joy, I thought I would try another angle. This was the power supply, the normal 250W supply was replaced with a 350W dual fan unit and I also replaced the passive heatsink on the northbridge with an active item (sink and fan).... (read more)
Paul.'s Response to grahama89.'s Review
Written on: 03/08/2003
the m810 motherboard is rubbish from new in a ready built machine it has never worked properly and if u try to up grade eg sound and video forget it what a waste of money.wish i would of bought a quality calculator
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“I run this board with a 1.3 Duron, 512mb RAM,Win XP,...”
Written on: 27/03/2003 by Chris.
I run this board with a 1.3 Duron, 512mb RAM,Win XP, DVD, CD-RW and everything seems to be running smoothly, I have had no conflicts, it is worth noting that I did do a full format and re-installation of XP I set the VGA to 64 mb and have no trouble playing games. (read more)
“This motherboard runs ok with the video cards tested...”
Written on: 23/03/2003 by rodeocowboy23.
This motherboard runs ok with the video cards tested inside but when ya put anything in newer with a bit more power it crashes big time, I have tried several geforce 4 cards and get the same problem everytime. Yeah the sound and modem are basic but they do there job without much hassle. (read more)
Raphael Garibe.'s Response to rodeocowboy23.'s Review
Written on: 24/03/2003
My PC´s XP1700 all on board:( My mainboard´s M810L v7.1a!
<br><br>I don´t understand the problem! I can´t to keep my PC without break! I can´t play or anything for a long time 'coz my PC freeze!
<br><br>I did bios Update and i put Win XP Pro W/ SP1!
<br><br>I continues have problem!
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X10Dope.'s Response to rodeocowboy23.'s Review
Written on: 25/03/2003
The problem is actually to do with the pulse-width modulation circuitry (PWMC) on this board. The implementation of this board's PMWC which deals adjustable voltage supply to the AGP card on the 3.3 V line is incompatible with the Geforce cards power unit, meaning less power is supplied than needed, hence it just freezes, doesn't start etc. It is just plain frustrating. I know coz I have two of these boards! Just don't try using nVidia and most geforce cards on this board. Or alternatively, switch to a PCI card.
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Your Tech, Inc..'s Response to rodeocowboy23.'s Review
Written on: 15/07/2003
I just bought the M810L V9.0M and don't have the problems you all have expressed. I run a GeForce4 MX 440 dual-head (dual-VGA) video card on it and it runs QUICK. I have yet to have a lockup or anything.
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<br>I will note though that I originally tried to install Win98SE. The whole system wasn't very fast... especially my video (slow and jerky). Diags from Nvidia said it was AGP operating in PCI mode (1/2 AGP 1x speed?). Anyhow, wiped it away and installed WinXP Pro w/ SP1 and now it reads AGP 4x and screams!
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<br>For $110US it was a great deal (Duron 1800+, 256MB RAM, 10/100LAN, sound, AMR modem, and onboard video).
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<br>Nice huge step up from my dual 400MHz P2 system.
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<br>PS: I also installed a Promise IDE controller (I have tons of drives - Zip250/LS-120/CD-RW/DVD/HD/HD) and a FireWire card (for digital camcorder and external portable drive).
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Damsel's Response to rodeocowboy23.'s Review
Written on: 06/08/2003
Damsel in distress would really appreciate some feedback. Yesterday, i purchased a tower, M810 mainboard replete with an AMD Athlon chip. The seller claims it's a 2 gig cpu chip but after sourcing the net, i'm getting mixed messages as to whether this is actually a 1.6 gig or a 2. The sites were vague and contrary at best. Here's what it says on the chip: AMD Athlon AX2000DMT3C.
<br>One site claimed this particular is aka an XP 2000. What do i have here? After assembling everything, turned out the power supply was a 180 watt max. Apparently running an Athlon chip requires a base minimum of 200 watt PS. Here i sit dead in the water until i drive a considerable distance to secure the correct ps.
<br>Is there anyone out there running that particular board and cpu? I would be interested to learn of the pros and cons and any other pertinent info. Please e-mail me at: gentleseas@hotmail.com Thanks!
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“I reviewed this a few months ago, review 15449. Well...”
Written on: 22/03/2003 by Julian.
I reviewed this a few months ago, review 15449. Well now I've used it a little more. Previously used with 98se, athlon 1800, 512 ram. now have XP home, 1 Gb ram. Most of my previous comments stay but I have to mention the sound. It is too quiet and bad quality, noise is heard from your PC's drives and devices THROUGH THE ON BOARD SOUND. It rumbles pops squeaks etc. Replaced this with a basic creative SB soundcard and all excellent. This is easy but when you only have 2 PCI slots you are a... (read more)
“I use this board in my "economy line of computers. I...”
Written on: 22/03/2003 by rockman.
I use this board in my "economy line of computers. I have used at least 40 of these boards & have yet to replace one! (read more)
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“In my country only poor technology arrives. I bought...”
Written on: 19/03/2003 by ynoz.
In my country only poor technology arrives. I bought one of this boards and suprise! it came already jammed the vender changed and suprise again few months later when the warranty pass out the board screw up again. i've an athlon 1900+ and a geforce2 and i can't even play asteriods 'cause the system blew up and i have to reboot the pc an lower the processor clock to 1200. so don't buy any board of this or similar or with the same mark on it.
if anyone knows how to fix my problem send me a...
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“If you value your money and time, don't buy it, it is...”
Written on: 18/03/2003 by DontBuytheRubbish.
If you value your money and time, don't buy it, it is totally junk.
I bought one in January, it crash every couple of hours, then deteriorate to every few minutes, the crook blame my monitor, my RAM, anything that did not bought from them, then I found out all the freeze, cannot be rebooted, lose of BIOS data, MS Blue Death Screen are symptom of defectve capacitors that will cause system to be unstable and premature death. The crook sold them and kept up scam people by charging extra for...
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90665_Jake.'s Response to 80798_DontBuytheRubbish.'s Review
Written on: 20/04/2003
100% Correct. There is a know compatibility issue with XP Thoroughbred 'B' Processors and various PC Chips boards. PC Chips are currently ignoring the situation and have been for months. We no longer build with PC Chips. AVOID.
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“I recently (January 2003) bought this mobo from a...”
Written on: 14/03/2003 by W. Sorg.
I recently (January 2003) bought this mobo from a local store. My budget at this time was very limited and finally that was the reason for buying this motherboard. Apparently the board is a never version: the label on the CPU fan says "Duron 1300 Pro". Yes, I know this is a fake, but at least, the real speed reported by various test programs rounds 950 Mhz, not 850. I have several video cards with different chipsets. With Nvidia I don't have any problems: I put on the agp socket a... (read more)
“Well I have one of these boards and I am nothing short...”
Written on: 13/03/2003 by fu*.
Well I have one of these boards and I am nothing short of very disgusted in it.
Had a TNT2 in it, worked rather well for about a year with HL/HL mods ...on about 40fps, onboard graphics is rubbish ( 4fps ). Tried two Geforce MX's, none of them worked, and now I'm trying a Radeon 9100 ...no luck.
I have nothing else to say but I pity the fool who comes across one of these boards.
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“ML 810 v5 This is the second one I have had, the first...”
Written on: 11/03/2003 by GORDON.
ML 810 v5 This is the second one I have had, the first got damaged due to the case. I run 5.1 sound card Radeon all in wonder vid card athlon 1.4 at the moment I am thinking off running an XP2400 does any one know if this will be OK Other wise I am well happy with the board it has been running evrey day all day for the last two years. (read more)
“Im not one for reviewing things, but after reading...”
Written on: 09/03/2003 by moofoo.
Im not one for reviewing things, but after reading some of the other reviews, I had to.
Im running AMD Duron 1.3 gig, SoundBlaster live (gamer), SIS 315 256 bit APG 4X ( not listed on the box) 320 133mhz ram.
This thing runs fine for me. It went together quick and easy (win98se). I've been running this thing hard for three days now WITHOUT a single blue screen. I did have it lock up when I started testing the onboard USB ports, but I changed the BIOS (IRQ), and it hasn't locked up...
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“I bought this motherboard already built in the system...”
Written on: 03/03/2003 by alcoolicm.
I bought this motherboard already built in the system with a DURON 800. I was happy at first.I thought... what a good internet and multimedia workstation I've got.Later, when I wanted a CD-RW, saw that my M810 IDE controller was not working good at all... The processor was highly used, the transfer was slow, my cd-rom drive failed sometimes to boot.
I've got to the Devices in Manage.(Win2k with SP2). Surprise: PIO mode 4 for all! Not a sign of UDMA!
My harddrive was a UDMA100, 20Gb MAXTOR....
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96534_Desi.'s Response to alcoolicm.'s Review
Written on: 10/05/2003
This review was quite acurate
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“Does this board support a GeForce 4 because it's...”
Written on: 23/02/2003 by Whathisface.
Does this board support a GeForce 4 because it's nearly impossible find any of the cards they have tested and anyway TNT2 wouldn't really give me top performance. Please Email me with any info at tomstent@iolfree.ie (read more)
“Above all a very good board that has few compatibility...”
Written on: 10/02/2003 by matey.
Above all a very good board that has few compatibility issues and because of the size will fit into most cases. (read more)
Mikkowus.'s Response to matey.'s Review
Written on: 01/06/2003
I am thinking about buying A amd 2600+ prosessor for my computer I was wondering if it would work with my M810 motherboard.
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“does anyone know how to disable the onboard graphics...”
Written on: 30/01/2003 by Ray.
does anyone know how to disable the onboard graphics so I can fit an agp card please answers direct to r_ascough@yahoo.co.uk (read more)
72344_Adam.'s Response to 69214_Ray.'s Review
Written on: 12/02/2003
I purchased an M810 systemboard and ECSAG315 64MB 4X AGP video Card. every time I connect the ECS video card the PC goes black. I tried disabling the onboard video card in the setup I setup the P & P setup Primary Graphic Adaptor to PCI. It still causes my system to go black. But when I take the ECS card out and run with the onboard video, it works OK. How do I disable the onboard Graphic Card? what is it that I missed ? Any one had this problem? I am also seeing alot of comments about video cards with this system board. Is this ECS card compatable with the M810 systemboard? Your help will be greatly appreciated.......
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Markuss.'s Response to 69214_Ray.'s Review
Written on: 17/02/2003
go to your bios settings and disable trough there
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Nickm.'s Response to 69214_Ray.'s Review
Written on: 23/02/2003
The onboard graphics use system ram-did you have enough ram to run the 64mb ( or whatever ) o/b graphics to start?
as mentioned in the last post-change your settings in the bios for the AGP mode & card. Remember to set your primary graphics adapter to AGP not PCI, if the sis card is in the AGP format & in the AGP slot. PCI graphics cards ar invariably inferior to AGP-only use if your m/b o/b graphics are crud or you don't have an AGP slot.
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“The system keeps on locking up, cannot be rebooted,...”
Written on: 29/01/2003 by Openview.
The system keeps on locking up, cannot be rebooted, can only be turn off from power switch in the back. Deadly blue screen appear frequently, with fatal message like "CANNOT WRITE TO HARD DISK", "PROGRAM YOU ARE RUNNIN HAS CAUSE AN ERROR IN KRNL386.EXE, the program will now close", "WINDOWS PROTECTION ERROR" and all kind of otheer weird messages. But despite all these alarming errors message, MICROSOFT is not the culpit, the motherboard is. The stores/manufacturers said it is the heat or... (read more)
“I was under no illusions about this board. Pcchips...”
Written on: 29/01/2003 by RaggaMuffin.
I was under no illusions about this board. Pcchips are generally known as the worst of the worst, and their support site looks as if it was designed by an astute monkey. I got it because I wanted to install a multibooting server system. So sound not important and I shoved my spare geforce card in it. Modem just a ras accessory. General performance has been surprisingly good. Decent ide performance. I flashed the bios and updated drivers as soon as I got it, so i don't know what its 'in... (read more)
“Cheap, fits into mini case, upgradeble to a point,eazy...”
Written on: 21/01/2003 by TK.
Cheap, fits into mini case, upgradeble to a point,eazy to work with (read more)
“This m810 will not run a xp1600+ you have to drop it...”
Written on: 14/01/2003 by sniper.
This m810 will not run a xp1600+ you have to drop it to 1050 (read more)
Texas_Guy.'s Response to 65257_sniper.'s Review
Written on: 21/01/2003
Well are you sure you have your bus speed in the cmos set up correctly? I did the same thing and was only getting 1050 mhz, because i had the bus speed set to 100mhz, try changing your bus speed to 133 mhz and that should bring your processor back up to 1390mhz about 1400mhz or what AMD calls their 1600+ for performance reasons. I did this on the PCchips board and it works great, no problems, good board for the price if you just want a good internet/office PC
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“I like it!!! I have built 3 now with 1.3 duron's and...”
Written on: 14/01/2003 by MrData.
I like it!!! I have built 3 now with 1.3 duron's and 256 meg of ram. Good for internet use and some games work fine. Counter Strike played fine. Not the best graphics in the world but good enough for the price. If you want to play alot of high end graphics games then don't use this board!!! (read more)
“A good mother board for it's cheap price, it does the...”
Written on: 12/01/2003 by Static-X.
A good mother board for it's cheap price, it does the job very well, no good gaming performer, stable with all amd processors, supports all nvidia gpu based cards, but it has less points no ddr support, poor sound. (read more)
“I am pretty happy with the board in general, for a...”
Written on: 07/01/2003 by Lord Crumple.
I am pretty happy with the board in general, for a good solid board it has my recommendation, For a power user or Tech Geek it is minimal at best the lack of DDR ram support and 133mhz bus speed are disappointing to the true geek but I have had no problems with it for running High end Video cards namely ATI Radeon 9700 Pro very stable with Win XP and AMD 2000+ XP chip at 1.6 mhz (read more)
“This board is Garbage.......I can't believe that they...”
Written on: 30/12/2002 by Steven Holmes.
This board is Garbage.......I can't believe that they expect me to use one of the video cards they tested. What about the damn ATI all in wonder card that I purchased way before I bought this piece of garbage. Can anyone recommend a better Board? (read more)
“My machine is an athlon 1000, 512 ram,g force 2,40 g...”
Written on: 27/12/2002 by phil-007-uk.
My machine is an athlon 1000, 512 ram,g force 2,40 g hard drive. It can run ok for about 15 mins then it will lock up or crash, it even restarts it self, someone said it could be over heating proscessor, or graphics card. any ideas ???? (read more)
Rorro.'s Response to phil-007-uk.'s Review
Written on: 05/02/2003
The prblem seems to be the power source.
You need at least 300W, with +3,3 and +5,5 volt at least 160 watts.
Also set the bios to ACPI in power managment.
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“Ok all here it goes. GET YOU BANG FOR YOUR BUCK! This...”
Written on: 27/12/2002 by NightHawk.
Ok all here it goes. GET YOU BANG FOR YOUR BUCK! This board rocks! I am a refurbisher and a new system builder and I picked up a 810CNLR AMD 1200XP and do play alot of pc games. I tested this with COUNTERSTRIKE AND IT ROCKS! This system doesn't want to stop! Sometimes it's on for 24 hours straight with no trouble. If you wonder if Windows XP runs on it, IT DOES! (read more)
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Robevanz's Comment
Written on: 17/09/2008
I found this review helpful because...of the mention of processor speed.