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22 October 2002, 09:00 AM
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Can anyone give me a steer on motherboards?
I want a board that can handle the latest Athlon but don't want all the on-board sound and graphics ****e they seem to come bundled with. RAID would be handy, mind....
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Gordo
I want a board that can handle the latest Athlon but don't want all the on-board sound and graphics ****e they seem to come bundled with. RAID would be handy, mind....
cheers
Gordo
22 October 2002, 11:52 AM
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PCW (nov 2002 issue) awarded the Chaintech 7VJL Apogee the editor's choice. the listed price is £77+VAT.
great value goes to the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP and highly commended to MSI KT3 Ultra2-BR.
great value goes to the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP and highly commended to MSI KT3 Ultra2-BR.
22 October 2002, 12:03 PM
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Also just bought an Asus A7V8X, pretty happy with it, yes onboard sound, but it can be turned off.
Should mention about the RAID, it only supports on device on the 'legacy' IDE interface, it's really meant for Serial ATA devices for which there are two connectors.
Does of course also have USB2 and Firewire
[Edited by Andrewza - 10/22/2002 12:10:44 PM]
Should mention about the RAID, it only supports on device on the 'legacy' IDE interface, it's really meant for Serial ATA devices for which there are two connectors.
Does of course also have USB2 and Firewire
[Edited by Andrewza - 10/22/2002 12:10:44 PM]
22 October 2002, 12:22 PM
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the MSI KT3 Ultra2 is full of goodies. spec...
ultra DMA 133 raid
bluetooth features (with external aerial)
support for DDR333
USB2
integrated six-channel AC97 sound (with coaxial & optical S/PDIF)
ultra DMA 133 raid
bluetooth features (with external aerial)
support for DDR333
USB2
integrated six-channel AC97 sound (with coaxial & optical S/PDIF)
22 October 2002, 12:25 PM
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try http://www.overclockers.co.uk for some good prices on good motherboards.
I currently use an Abit KG7-Raid board, which is sweet, but requires DDR memory, which is a right pain. Doesn't have anything built in, and I'm not currently using a RAID array, although you can set win2k up on the raid ide channel if you need to, without actually using RAID.
I currently use an Abit KG7-Raid board, which is sweet, but requires DDR memory, which is a right pain. Doesn't have anything built in, and I'm not currently using a RAID array, although you can set win2k up on the raid ide channel if you need to, without actually using RAID.
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go for the MSI-K7T 266 Pro, it does have onboard sound but just disable it. I use this board and it is super, it handles up to a 2.2GHz and 3Gb of DDR RAM
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