Mobo Recommendations ?
24 March 2003, 09:32 AM
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Any recommendations for a new mobo ?
I need:
Socket A - Athlon XP
USB2
5 PCI slots
AGP 4x (8x preferred)
ATA133
Support DDR2100 - 4 slots preferred.
No sound needed
No VGA needed
Cheap
I need:
Socket A - Athlon XP
USB2
5 PCI slots
AGP 4x (8x preferred)
ATA133
Support DDR2100 - 4 slots preferred.
No sound needed
No VGA needed
Cheap
24 March 2003, 09:58 AM
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Get an nForce 2 based board. Also I would get one from Abit or Epox as you can change the CPU multiplier in software without physically messing around with the chip itself. An overclockers dream.
24 March 2003, 02:33 PM
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Dual channel DDR is meant to offer better performance but the benchmarks I've seen show the new VIA KT400a with single channel to be right up with it.
Is there much to chose on the stability front?
Is there much to chose on the stability front?
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24 March 2003, 03:19 PM
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I had an early KT400 Gigabyte board which was ok stability wise but a bit flaky when using AGP 8x and if you tried to push the memory or processor at all (not overclocking just setting agressive timings) it became very very unstable. It also had problems with the ATI 9700pro I had.
I swapped to a A7N8X and its been very stable, extremly fast and has just about everything you could every want built in, including 5.1 sound, digital outs, firewall enough usb ports to sink a battleship, lan etc.
I'd go for a Nforce 2 board everytime at the moment.
btw anyone seen the KT400a boards yet as I thought VIA had only just released details of the chipset??
Steve
[Edited by J1nxy - 3/24/2003 3:25:13 PM]
I swapped to a A7N8X and its been very stable, extremly fast and has just about everything you could every want built in, including 5.1 sound, digital outs, firewall enough usb ports to sink a battleship, lan etc.
I'd go for a Nforce 2 board everytime at the moment.
btw anyone seen the KT400a boards yet as I thought VIA had only just released details of the chipset??
Steve
[Edited by J1nxy - 3/24/2003 3:25:13 PM]
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