10 Best Motherboards for Windows
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Why We Recommend These Products
Out of thousands of reviews for 114 products, over 700 people recommended Motherboards specifically for Windows. These 10 are the most highly recommended products we found.
Abit iP35 Pro 843323000223
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$280
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51 People Recommend
"but the memory when inserted in another computer was giving me blue screens in windows, so it may just be the memory, not the board.…" - Newegg.com User "the abit motherboard came with its current bios installed and worked flawlessly with an intel 6600, ocz reaper 4gig ddr2 800 and vista ultimate.…" - noyes1@patmedia.net at Newegg.com "could recreate it once (recreating the volume from source hdd) in intel matrix storage windows tool.…" - Kaboom-boom-boom at Newegg.com |
eVGA nForce 650i ULTRA 122-CK-NF66-T1
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$119
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45 People Recommend
"(i really don't need it anyway.) unkown device in xp pro that i have no clue how to get rid of or install.…" - Newegg.com User "nvidia's ntune for windows xp very buggy, you're better off not using it and setting everything manually in bios.…" - Newegg.com User "loaded win xp on hdd and cranked it up.…" - old mainframer at Newegg.com |
Intel DP35DP
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$96 - $130
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45 People Recommend
"if you are running linux, you have to download the driver for the ethernet card, because it doesn't take generic drivers.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "tested it with xp pro (both 64 and 32 bit) and vista 64 bit.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "i had to slipstream the x64 drivers into a windows install cd using "nlite." as there is no floppy drive support for this motherboard at all.…" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H
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$103
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23 People Recommend
"displays vista 64 bit media center in all it's 1080p glory.…" - Newegg.com User "this motherboard came with a special disk for vista drivers and xp drivers.…" - Newegg.com User "my computer went to reboot for an update being complete and it started booting over and over again, 10 times without touching base with windows fully loading again.…" - Newegg.com User |
ASUS M2R32-MVP
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$94 - $115
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18 People Recommend
"my 64-bit ubuntu linux is blazing and i'm rendering global illumination scenes in seconds.…" - Amazon.com User "(my bad) the pwr led quit working, i started getting error warnings in vista.…" - Newegg.com User "i am using windows vista home premium.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel DG33BU UATX DDR2 800 GBE LAN VIIV 1333MHZ
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$95 - $122
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9 People Recommend
"run vista very stable.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: if the board is in ahci mode windows installs fine if you slipstream the drivers via nlite.…" - Newegg.com User "if you install a non-vista os, you must change bios to configure hd from sata to ide.…" - Newegg.com User |
Intel DG31PR
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$60 - $70
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9 People Recommend
"i downlaoded the latest bios and installed it and the board worked fine with vista.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "i'm running 32 bit vista home, with 2gb memory, no issues at all.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "i have purchased over 25 of these boards using core2 duo cpus and never had any problems installing xp using any sp version or vista for that matter.…" - Tigerdirect.com User |
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
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7 People Recommend
"will try 2x1gb + 2x512mb, but it may be this mobo's 4 slot thingy or maybe i need vista 64 bit.…" - Newegg.com User "installed windows xp professional with no problems at all, had some devices unknown, which was fixed by installing drivers off of the cd that came with the motherboard.…" - Newegg.com User "vista ultimate installed first time no problems.…" - Newegg.com User |
Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2
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7 People Recommend
"windows xp reconized them without any thrid class driver installs.…" - Newegg.com User "requires f6 and floppy drive to install windows xp pro w/ sp2.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: this was for my home system running linux (fedora 8).…" - Newegg.com User |
MSI P35D3 Platinum 816909040234
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$107
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4 People Recommend
"other thoughts: havnt had a single problem with it, vista installed any and all drivers, so the disks where pointless, thought my g-card wasnt gona fit it first with the heat sink, but it fit in…" - Newegg.com User "i have it running on xp.…" - Newegg.com User "system is made up with e6750, g.skill 2gb (2 x 1gb) ddr3, vista ultimate, i have six hard drives, (4sat 2 ide) and two cdrw drives (both sata).…" - Newegg.com User |
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