I finally sold my KT7A-R, now what?

[efini]

In a bittersweet move, I finally sold my beloved KT7A-R as a favor to a friend who desperately needed a quick and dirty upgrade. Its been a long journey of two years through scorching hot thunderbirds, buggy Via drivers, and voltage mods.

Finally through another thread on this forum I reflashed my bios and got an xp 2100+ to overclock to 2.3ghz

My question now is what Abit motherboard should I buy now? I don't particularly need a motherboard right now. I have my eyes on the Abit NF7 v2.0. Does anyone know if Abit will release the NF7 with the new nforce2 ultra that 'officially' supports 200FSB?
Should I get the NF7 v2.0 or should I wait for another motherboard?

thanks,

-efini

 

[Rocko[DPC]]

Why wait? Unless you care only about official support and wanna pay a high premium for it. The v2 is using the same C1 northbridge that the 'ultra' will use when it is released. It already supports 200 mhz fsb!

 

[MrAngry]

as a KT7a-R owner I know what you mean, great board. But the NF7 is a huge step from there and my rev. 1.2 is running at 200mhz FSB right now! I'd say get one or wait and pay more for the next best thing to come out, then wait for a bios or driver to come out so it will work the way it's supposed to!! Can you tell I own two NF7-s systems?

 

[efini]

thanks for the input guys. I'm going to purchase an nf7-s v2.0 in June. It'll go great with my xp 2100+ tbred b.

I'm hoping to reach 2.4ghz now on 1.9-2.0v (I could only reach 2.3ghz on my kt7)

-efini

 

[MrAngry]

Good choice, although the 1700+ is right there with the 2100+ for almost half the price. I have gotten to 2466mhz with my 2100+ AIUHB T-bred using Geil value ram that will only go to about 204 with my multiplier settings above 10.5, My other system has a 1700+ JIUCB with samsung pc3200 and it has hit close to 2.2ghz. You do realize that by june there could be a newer revision the way these boards have gone lately!