PC Chips M810 LMRT Micro ATX

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.

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.

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.

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 had 256MB of memory on board. Note that Aida 32, a monitoring software, recommended the video board. All problems solved!!! I have dual boot Windows 98, and 3 users on Windows XP Pro, with no problems at all now.

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 my brother's more gaming geared computer. We both have the same CPU (AMD Athlon XP 1800+) and RAM (640MB) but his computer has an ASUS motherboard with an ATi Radeon 9200SE. These motherboards may not be an ASUS or some other high end motherboard manufacturer but these are a good board for people that are buying many computers at once or just need a computer to play light games on, and burn DVDs or CDs. I have never once had a overheating problem, a broken part or anything like that - not to mention we have four computers like this in my house, each costing a total of about 750 with moniter, keyboard and mouse. And keep in mind these computers are two and a half years old. It's a great motherboard that's for sure. You can say all you want but I'm happy and I'm probably never going to upgrade again. (I went from a Pentium 200MMX with 32mb or RAM, to an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ and what a difference!)

My regards, Brian.

I've had the PC Chips M810 for a few years and have never really had a problem per se. Points explained below:

GP

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).

BP

1. Slow -- Duron 800 cpu. Not a bad processor, just old.

2. Not much expansion I can do with this system, memory and cpu were almost clocked out when I received it (256M RAM).

3. Big Hands and little workspace. Need better notations on the MB

I would recommend this to someone who needs a system, but can't afford a good one yet.

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.

PC Chips' M810LR-H with AMD Duron 750mhz. Runs slow, crashes with WinXP, and PC chips' tech support is also rubbish!

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.

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. PC Chips is definitely not it.