What do you all recommend?

[YMAN]

What would all of you recommend for a mobo that
supports an athlon 850?

The board will not be overclocked, I need a good quality,
stable, and affordable mobo.
Stability being the most of my consern, as it will be used in
a commercial environment.
I must also be able to change the cpu voltage etc.
I would also prefer a mobo with onboard audio, onboard
video is not a requirement.

The last board I had was an ak10 giving me many problems,
then of all things, 3 of the electroloytic capacitors are leaking.
I will proboably replace the capacitors in the future, but I do
want a new mobo.

Thanks,
YMAN

 

[jbell]

Shuttle is a great bboard - I think it is the AK31? it supports both DRAM and DDR RAM - two slots each.


EPOX 8kta2 is an AWESOME board and only about $50 bucks @ Fry's


IMHO I would go 8kta3 or 8kta3+ from EPOX - you can get it for about $90-$100 and the 3+ has onboard raid too.... and cpu voltages are easily controlled in the bios.

 

[Revx]

shuttle ak31 rev 3.1
shuttle ak35gtr
Abit kr7a
these are some great board, look into them

 

[YMAN]

I have looked at the boards that you specified and here
is what I am focused on:

1) EPoX EP-8KTA3L-Plus KT133A $69
I am interested in this board because, it clearly uses PC133
memory, witch is the memory that I already have, that way I
will not have to purchase some DDR memory.

The question I have is does this board allow for the
adjustment of voltage, multipliers, fsb, etc. in the bios?

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2) SHUTTLE AK31A VIA KT266A (REVISION 3) $74
I have 2 ak31 boards but the rev 2 model, I have had no
problems with them. I however do not see clearly that is
supports PC133, only that it supports DDR.

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Overall I think I will get the epox but I need to know that
you can change the settings in the bios. Thats one thing
my ak10 did not have, witch I greatly hated.

 

[YMAN]

Ok, I have done my research on the boards and
I chose to go with the EPoX EP-8KTA3L-Plus it is a little
different from the EP-8KTA3.

The Vcore can be changed by DIP switches, I have no
clue about the BIOS, but solong as I can change it I do
not care.

The FSB & MULTIPLYER can be changed by DIP or BIOS.

Thanks very much jbell, Revx, and the rest of the
overclockers.com family.

-YMAN

 

[jbell]

Glad to help and great choice!!! that line of EPOX is solid as a rock!