Best Motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz 266 FSB

[Jak]

Hi, could anyone tell me which motherboard is best for the AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz with 266 FSB (Thunderbird). I dont want any onboard graphics or sound. I would like as many PCI slots as possible (hopefully 6) ISA slots are not important. Also with 3 or 4 slots for memory and a max memory of 1.5 gb or higher. Thanks.

Jack

 

[Mondo]

Maybe the Iwill KK266 with or without raid! Wooooo!

 

[Morphoius]

with that memory requirment your are either not going DDR or you are waiting.

 

[Jak]

ok. what do people think of thish mb: http://www.abit.nl/eng/product/mb/kg7.htm

Following spec:

CPU
Support AMD Athlon/Duron 700MHz ~ 1.33GHz or future Socket A Processors based on 200/266 MHz(100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate)
Chipset
AMD761/VIA 686B

Memory
Four 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 4 GB PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM module
BIOS
SoftMenu™III Technology to set CPU parameters

Functions
Four channels of Bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to 8 Ultra DMA 33/66/100( RAID 0 /1/0+1).
Miscellaneous
1 AGP slot, 6 PCI slots.

Ultra DMA 100/RAID
High Point HTP370 IDE Controller

 

[ReTiCuLeX]

Best mobo I think would be the MSI K7T266 Pro and Master They are the stablist boards ive tested they run smoooooooothhhhhh no lockups.Rite now I got a EPoX board which is ok,I got it so I can overclock to 180fsb x 2 DDR = ) with my AMD 1.4.I also have a A7M266 and that runs ok.I say the 3 best boards rite now until I see the Abit KG7 and sis 735 boards are,MSI k7T266pro ,MSI K7Master ,EPoX 8K7A with or without raid.

 

[Drax]

That Abit is serious business. I know the GA-7DXR from Giga-byte has 5 PCI, AGP, and max 3 GB DDR in three slots, two ATA-100 and two IDE RAID.

 

[Cheezwiz]

Morphoius (Jul 11, 2001 06:42 p.m.):
with that memory requirment your are either not going DDR or you are waiting.

Don't forget the new Tyan Thunder, that board has 4 DDR slots.

 

[Valid]

Don't most boards that carry over 2 DIMM slots require the use of registered DIMMs?