OK, saw these at Fry's and had to give it a shot.
ECS7050m-m Athlon mobo's with Geforce video and built-in Vidia nRAID.
I understand these are decent boards, though a number of them were bad initially.
Overclocking options are nil.

I'm used to running C2D's so been away from Athlons for the past 4-5 years.
Am looking for throw together an OpenBSD system, and at this price, and a cheap X2, hoping it will come in under $100 for bare bones.

YMMV

Are you trying to say you found some ECS GeForce7050M-M motherboards with socket AM2+/AM2 at Fry's B&M for $19.99 and you're not sure if they suck?
ECS Link
N'wegg Link

Did you get version 2.0?

Although, rest of the world may be raving about AMD, but I have bought twice AMD in my life and I am not happy. My first AMD used to freeze with Motorola Modem and was having hiccups, was a known issue. Now I am on Acer AST180 with X2 4800+ and I find it waiting couple of seconds when accessing web or any action. All stats say that my system is good but reality says other wise. I have side wise all intel machines next to my AMD and they all behave nicely, for 100$ difference, one should buy AMD for lesser rather go with Intel.

maybe red for the frustration because we cant understand him?

But it does sound like a good board for the price.

which frys u saw it at?

How can the brand of CPU cause problems like that?

I have an ECS GeForce6100M-M motherboard, also with AMD X2 4800+ CPU, and have rarely experienced pauses like you've described. For Internet access I've used two types of USB wireless adapters, a NetGear WG111 and Airlink AWLL-3026, neither which is very new (no WPA2 support, and the NetGear's WPA support is through a beta driver).

outpost has to be the least updated online store ever. socket A? wtf?

They had these online (SKU = 5449189) a month ago for $19.99 + shipping at Frys.com. Sold out in a couple of days. Nice deal for a cheap AM2 board. Got 2 of them, both Rev1.0. Haven't had a chance to build off of one yet, though....

davneil said:Although, rest of the world may be raving about AMD, but I have bought twice AMD in my life and I am not happy. My first AMD used to freeze with Motorola Modem and was having hiccups, was a known issue. Now I am on Acer AST180 with X2 4800+ and I find it waiting couple of seconds when accessing web or any action. All stats say that my system is good but reality says other wise. I have side wise all intel machines next to my AMD and they all behave nicely, for 100$ difference, one should buy AMD for lesser rather go with Intel.

You clearly know nothing about computers. There is no way the processor has anything to do with your delay. Most likely your hard drive is flaking out, or just slow or fragmented. Or your OS (which I'm assuming is Windows based on your level of understanding) is getting in the way.

ebaker said:The delay is probably due to the antivirus software.
Yeah. It could be the nVidia infamous built-in firewall network whatever crap. If he installed that app when he installed the driver set, gotcha ...

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