i've had a couple of motherboards die on me.
Me, too. I had a PC Chips P3 board
PC Chips, Enuff Said?
Man they were crap!!! Every time someone I knew, family usually, told me they knew some computer guy and he got them a good deal (They never asked my opinion, that's family for you), it always ended up having this cheap ass PC Chips MotherBoard, oh and a Cyrix CPU
. And to top it off, you'd find a 4.3GB Maxtor, which would only last a couple of years and then die.
Before buying any PC gear, always read lots of reviews and support forums of said hardware.
btw, the
Zalman CNPS9700 NT CPU Cooler kicks fucking ass!!! Got my wife's Athlon 64 X2 4400+ idling at 10°C.