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uncle Apr 15, 2003, 05:31 AM I am looking for a mother board for an XP 1800 with potential for the new XP with FSB of 333.
Do not need Raid but need ATA133 LAN and SOUND. I am not too bothered about overclocking but would like to have a play with it.
Suggestions and prices would be greatly appreciated.
At present I am running with an Elite K7S5A and 2700 DDR
Uncle
hood1971 Apr 15, 2003, 05:48 AM Abit NF7-S v2.0 and Epox 8RDA+ are for me the best amd boards.
The abit does not have lan, but has extra sata 150 (with adapter can use as ata133), easy to overclock.
The epox comes with all the features you want, and is quite easy to overclock if you want to play around with.
There is also the Asus A7N8X Deluxe, which has raid along with the features yo want.
Epox is £74.90
Abit £78.00
Asus £96.90
Prices from OcUK (http://www.overclockers.co.uk)
BigStan Apr 15, 2003, 08:08 AM You can get them cheaper than that if you browse, and the above boards are amongst the best if you want cutting technology. But if you are after raid, ive heard the sata adapters are unreliable at best and best of going for a kt400 based board.
burp Apr 15, 2003, 03:27 PM abit KT7 MAX 2,my motherboard,cannot fault it
AT7-MAX2 a deluxe motherboard is part of the ABIT MAX Series products, incorporates VIA KT400 chipset to support AMD K7 processors, high-bandwidth DDR400 and ABIT SoftMenu™ Technology offering users a robust, cost effective and high performance AMD K7 platform. With additional features such as Serial ATA 150 and ATA133 RAID technology give you higher performance and efficiency data transfer rate. The extra video bandwidth made possible with AGP 8X means that your multimedia and gaming applications run faster and smoother than ever before on the AT7-MAX2. USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 and ABIT Media XP multi function front panel including S/PDIF Out and Card reader function gives users an easy way to connect to today's hottest peripherals. On-board 10/100M LAN provides high-speed networking capability, and built-in 6-channel audio delivers a rich multimedia experience. AT7-MAX2 looks to the feature, giving users a new level of system longevity and flexibility.
Features
AGP 8X
AGP 3.0 8X spec support high performance graphic process purpose and at a peak bandwidth of 2.1GB/s.
Serial ATA 150
Serial ATA is an evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA storage interface. This new high-speed interface burst data transfer rate up to 150 Mbytes/sec and more flexible power tolerances, cables can be smaller and more efficient
RAID 0/1/0+1
Supports the most advanced ATA133 HDDs with RAID 0/1/0+1 onboard HPT374 RAID controller enables enhanced functionality and HDDs performance without the cost of additional add-on cards
ABIT SoftMenu™
The overclocking function includes CPU frequency, Vcore, multiplier, chipset & DDR voltage and AGP VDDQ voltage adjustment available to maximize your system performance.
USB 2.0
Support speed up to 480 Mb/s. Approximately forty times faster than conventional USB 1.1
and support for the new Barton 400fsb amdxp cpu when available
TOOL Apr 15, 2003, 11:43 PM soyo sy-k7v dragon plus..............very good performance, raid, and onboard lan.......also good for overclocking.
akihagames Apr 20, 2003, 09:48 PM cool, thanks for the tips. i have an athlon xp 2000+ but am currently using an iwill kk266 but wanna upgrade to a ddr board.
420 Apr 21, 2003, 02:13 AM AOpen has 4 that meet your needs m8. All 4 have:
- VIA Chipsets (for the love of god, stay away from the Nvidia chipsets lol)
- FSB of 333MHz
- DDR400 (PC3200)
- LAN
- AGP 8x/4x
- ATA133
- USB 2.0
2 of the 4 also add the SATA and Firewire/1394
Excellent mobos, lots of nice features. Can't help you on pricing if you're in the UK. Personally I shop at NewEgg, Googlegear, and Outpost here in the US. :)
btw ... All AOpens are very OC-friendly. All the latest models support OC with 1MHz stepping and the 4 I mentioned support OC of 500MHz above rated speed. Here's the link:
http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/DDRSKA.htm
VIA KT400 and VIA KT400A chipsets at the bottom of the page
Ronaldsoft Apr 21, 2003, 06:26 AM as i said in dju40oz's thread, i recommened any nForce2 based mobo cause of the dual channel ddr.
personally i like the EPox 8RDA+.
uncle Apr 24, 2003, 07:35 AM cheers,
great info
maseline_98 May 22, 2003, 10:54 AM does anybody know the performance difference b/w the abit nf7-s and the nf7-m. I recently had ordered the nf7-s, but i was thinking about returning it for the nf7-m because of the integrated gaphics.....i know i'm missing out on the serial SATA, but that doesn't have anything to do with overclocking and such
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