Lil' iffy on that motherboard. I have never really seen to many "good" PCchips motherboards, especially AMD platform.

I agree on the mobo thing, some others that maybe suspect would be Matsonic, Amptron, ECS.
 
Since they are only looking at a year, it may just be fine for that period of time

OH H3LL yes on the Amptron, that and PC$hjts mobos are virtually identical. And if you are going to have all that onboard stuff you want a strong mobo to push it! i.e. strong mb manu. and chipset.

PCCHIPS is the lowest of the low
 
I wou;dnt wish one on my worst enemy.
 
Stick with NFORCE2
 
Or don't bother getting an AMD

ditto on the PCchips mobo. I remember owning (and having paid for it ) one, it had a 440VX chipset, sporting a lightningly fast 166Mhz Pentium. The VX chipset was out in two varieties, with 256 or 512 kb of L2 cache memory. Mine was the faster 512kb (yeah!) version, only to my disappointment to discover later (using some diagnostics utility - can't remember the name) that it was a 256 kb version with a BIOS that reported 512kb of cache!!!.....no comments after that....
 
But, on topic, it's a low price and his parents only want it for a year (strange?), so probably it will boot 365 times (not counting restarts). That should be a record on its own for a PCchips mobo, right?
 
Off topic, a friend's 48x Plextor CDRW failed to recognise all kinds of discs yesterday (blank cdr and cdrw, pressed data discs, audio cds). He's covered by the Plextor 2 year warranty, but he's only gotten it only 3 months ago, and the brand name was the decisive factor for that buy....oh well

Ok, so from what I've read, PCChip mobo are bad. May I ask why they are bad exactly?
 
But besides the mobo, the deal is pretty ok I would assume right? Also, the 387 dollars is Canadian money because I didn't mention that in my last post.
 
Thanks again

they are simply poorly made, low quality pieces of pooooooooooh!

Let's illustrate: time=money. What would you rather spend on a motherboard? I prefer to spend money and get something that's good rather than haggle with the hardware. Matsonic/PCChips/Amptron...also, throw ECS and FIC in their two...bad companies dude ...and Epox. You get what you pay for, and these aren't companies that don't have the highest quality control or something. They're a headache to work with.
 
You want something that's not gonna break the bank, look at something from MSI or Gigabyte.