MOBO advice...

[Oneiron]

I'm tossing away my A7M266 mobo... it just plainly sux! What I wanted to know was do any of you know any online store I could order a Epox 8K7A? I live in Norway, and I have not been able to get my hands on one.

And what do you ppl think about Epox 8K7A? I was allso thinking about buying a Abit KG7... which one should I buy? Any feedback would be great! :)

[train22]

Abit-KG7 is the best on your list and is only 130 bucks! (Not the Lite or RAID<the normal ver)

[Oneiron]

Well... this is kinda confusing, one for each mobo so far. :) If you could supply some reasons (specs.) why I should pick either of the two it would be nice. Does anyone else have any input on this? Feel free to suggest another mobo as well. I want THE BEST! :D

[Genis B]

yes i own a epox 8K7A, and i runs sweet as, but.........
somehow i can't o/c my cpu for more than what it is, my best is to make it run @ 1.4 but it doesn't run any game though.
so i would choose the some other board if u r consistering o/c.
the asus one i've got was good, y u wantta toss it away?

[Oneiron]

Originally posted by Genis B
yes i own a epox 8K7A, and i runs sweet as, but.........
somehow i can't o/c my cpu for more than what it is, my best is to make it run @ 1.4 but it doesn't run any game though.
so i would choose the some other board if u r consistering o/c.
the asus one i've got was good, y u wantta toss it away?

I want to toss it away because I can NOT adjust the clock multiplier of this mobo. The only way to oc it is to increase the FSB, and that quite clearly sux. :) I have allso found it to be VERY unstable. Have been playing around with this mobo for about three weeks now, and I managed at one time to get it to about 1,55 GHz by upping the core v. a great deal. It was terribly unstable thou, and I soon discovered I could not get it to run stable on any more then 1,46! :( (I have a 1,33 GHz birdy btw.) My temps have never been a problem since I have allways been conserned with cooling. I even took my CPU over to a friends house, and tried it on his crappy mobo. I got it to run nicely at 1,51 GHz... I think I could have gotten more out of it to, but I didn't want my CPU to spend to much time over there. ;)
So... I'm tossing the mobo. I can't see any other option since I think I have tried everything else.

[Paul -The Mad Hatter]

my vote's for the 8k7a, its just awseome.