MOBO

[dj_unforgetable]

Im building a new comp and i have one question about the motherboard. Which One? I was going to go with teh Asus A7V, but i want one that will last for the future...This led me to select the A7A266, but then i heard that the Ali chipset sucks! So i want a motherboard with good overclocking ability and i want one with fairly fast memory and a motherboard for goo dgaming and one that will live up to new technologies for the future...any ideas?

 

[Staz]

You should have posted this in one of the motherboard section.

Likewise read the threads in the motherboard section to get a good idea of what chip set and features you want.

Then check with Asus, Abit, Iwill, Epox, MSI, and Giga-byte (I am sure I am missing some) and see what they have and what suits your needs.

 

[dj_unforgetable]

Did you build your system?

 

[Eil Atan]

I have th eA7M266 and I like it a lot, despite a couple of drawbacks. As long as you can affort the price, get the A7M instead of the A7A... It is a great board, but has a few feature drawbacks, such as no Raid. But otherwise it is a solid board that performs really well, and is exceptional if you make a few mods to it... I built my own system using this board and it is running really well, mostly thanks to the help of all the guys in this forum...

 

[Shadow ÒÓ]

moved posts to AMD Mobo's.

Shadow ÒÓ

 

[Da Whip]

Been hearing lots of good things about the Epox 8K7A+, it might be another option;

http://www.pchardware.ro/Reviews/review.php?id=114

 

[Carmine_Paterno]

|:|:|:|:|:|I AM NOT BASHING THE A7M266|:|:|:|:|:|

But, i have heard that is sux for overclocking. The only single reason is because there is no multiplier manipulation. But overall, i do agree that it does beat the A7A266 motherboard. Not by much tho.

I have the A7A266, and it is an amazing board. Coming from Intel, and this being my first amd experience, i am trully amazed!

My duron 750 is @ 954mhz 159fsb, and i have no cooling mods to the motherboard. Don't even have a fan on the northbridge, nor thermal paste.

with my VooDoo3 @ default settings, and my ram at CAS3, i get a 3dmark2001 score of 1755. The highest score at madonion is 1880 with a duron @ 1016, and the voodoo3 overclocked somewhere in the 200's.

My point being that the motherboard is making a huge difference, and this board rocks, and i don;t even have DDR ram yet. I have 256mb PC2100 in the mail right now!

Hope i shed some light on the subject.

 

[dj_unforgetable]

I wana get the Asus A7V133 (ATX) KT133A, 266MHz FSB, ATA-100. I heard that this boards is good. I wanna know if this supports pc-100, pc-133 and pc-2100 RAM? Does it? Is this a good board..im gonna get it. I wanna o/c it and im an avid gamers(counterstrike).

 

[Goldwing]

dj_unforgetable (Jul 05, 2001 06:10 a.m.):
I wana get the Asus A7V133 (ATX) KT133A, 266MHz FSB, ATA-100. I heard that this boards is good. I wanna know if this supports pc-100, pc-133 and pc-2100 RAM? Does it? Is this a good board..im gonna get it. I wanna o/c it and im an avid gamers(counterstrike).

It is a good board but it is not a DDR board so it doesn't support pc-2100.