refurbed k8v mobo, DFI or 6811?

Re: refurbed k8v mobo? 

6811. It's so easy (and preassembled) Lovin' it! David

Re: refurbed k8v mobo? 

Sorry for the flip answer to your orginal post, but I was (and am) being honest. Given your situation and the choices you raised, I would still have gone with the Emachine. I do own a refurb and it's great. Having said that, and never actually having bought a refurbed mobo, it doesn't seem like anyone else who has bought one is eager to jump in either. So here is my thought process; The logic of a refurbed complete unit (such as a monitor or my laptop) is that it has been gone through and either found to be working properly or had a basic part replaced with a new one and guaranteed to be working properly. It seems that a mobo is such a basic building block, that you would be fine as long as the company stands behind it, although I do wonder how you can take a part that is computer-manufactured (probably in Asia) and spend the time and money and manpower to refurb/repair it in the US? Perhaps it is just some sort of software refurb, but I think I would have to ask what was done and where. I still think that 'new' for a mobo is the best way to go. I have had more than one board that I replaced (not repaired) when it went bad. It's just the logic of the basic foundation of your computer being brand new, to say nothing about future trouble shooting if needed. If nothing else, this will keep the thread going one more time. Good Luck, David

dave, thanks for both posts. I'm staring at 4/5 of my new allenstein machine, still in the newegg boxes, chewing on it all. I hear you about the refurb motherboard. It sorta sketches me out but I thought maybe I was over-reacting and some one could tell me otherwise. There are other folks who sell the k8v knew but now I'm seriously flirting with the 6811. My nervousness with that is dealing with external drives again and the fact that I used to run PT on an HP lappy and it gave me nothing but trouble. so, um, yeah, still chewing. thanks again. will

I hear you re:the lap top, but this one is getting 'RAVES' from everyone who buys it. It's actually my first laptop ever, but I'm thrilled. Some of the users are recording straight to the internal 5400 rpm drive with no issues whatever. I do have an 80gig WD firewire that I use, but I have confidence that I could also go right to the internal drive. All I did was add 1 gig of internal memory and away I went. I haven't done the change to standard PC or disabled any programs. It did come preloaded with Norton AV and my wife thought we should use it. It cut performance considerably and I did remove it but that's typical for that program. If I had it to do over again, I'd do it over again. I'm also running a Allenstein desk top with an AMD 2500 Barton and a gig of internal, and the laptop blows it away. Time to sleep. Good Luck, David

Will, Either way you will do great. I'd get the DFI board new from newegg if you are going with the desktop. The laptop will get you similar results though. Allen

thanks dave and allen. ha, one of the funniest people I've ever been lucky enough to know was a fella named Dave Allen and I haven't thought about him in years. I orta find him. Thanks for that too. As it turns out, crucial is out of the prescribed allenstein RAM as well. I think god/hendrix is telling me to get the emachine. Will