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which MOBO for Athlon XP?
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Name: Ali
Date: June 17, 2002 at 15:39:59 Pacific
Subject: which MOBO for Athlon XP? |
Comment: Hi all
another question here, I want to get a MOBO powered by the KT333 chipset with the 1800+ I'm planning to get. I've seen lots of boards out there.
I need a board with 5 PCI slots, a RAID controlloer, USB2, Fire Wire, good overclocking capabilities, thermal protection, and of course the usual ATX form factor. Any suggestions???
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Response Number 1
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Name: ryan
Date: June 17, 2002 at 20:22:00 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hmm, well i just recently purchased the asus a7v333 and it suits me well. If you would like to read up on some you could check out www.motherboards.org.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Krezno
Date: June 18, 2002 at 02:44:32 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I'm actually replacing my 8K3A+ with the Asus A7V333 this friday. EPoX just won't release an all around GOOD BIOS for this board so I'm switching.
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Response Number 3
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Name: mooseboy84
Date: June 18, 2002 at 10:48:37 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)i dont like asus. they are overated. just about every board made nowadays ahs raid on it, there arnt any boards that come with fire wire besides the abit at7, and the soyo dragon ultra, but im not sure if the dragon ultra has onboard firewire. you can easily get a card for like $45 though. you should take a serious look at the abit kx7-333. also there is the msi kt3 ultra. there are several good mobos out there, so its really a matter of choice or preferance.
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Response Number 4
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Name: JLT
Date: June 19, 2002 at 00:07:23 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Why do you think you need to overclock an 1800+ ?? That's almost funny.
Go to testing forums and sites. Tom's hardware, Anand Tech, Overclockers, etc.
Check out their motherboard reviews.
A good place to find those is using a search engine like Google's www.google.com
Put in something like motherboard reviews,
or KT333 reviews, etc.
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Response Number 5
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Name: DJ
Date: June 19, 2002 at 06:48:20 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Shuttle AK35GTR - $88 Shipped on pricewatch! Supports all of the socket a athlons (durons included), two ata133 (RAID) chans, two ata100 chans, FSB adjustments 100-200MHz in 1MHz inc., VCore adjustable all the way up to 2.3v from the BIOS, 4 DDR Slots, DDR Voltage Adjustement in BIOS ... Read the reviews ... http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/motherboards/shuttle/ak35gtr/ ... http://www.mikhailtech.com/articles/motherboards/shuttleak35/
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Response Number 6
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Name: DJ
Date: June 19, 2002 at 06:51:43 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I just realized that that mb has the KT266 Chipset ... It will go WAY beyond 266MHz ... I read a review that said they got the FSB up to 166MHz (on an AK31GT 166 is the max FSB) which means that DDR memory would be running at about 333MHz (twice the speed of the FSB ... DDR=Double Data Rate).
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Response Number 7
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Name: DJ
Date: June 19, 2002 at 07:21:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just one more thing ... the AK35GT2 ($81 Shipped on Pricewatch) has the KT333 Chipset, and all of the same specs except no raid.
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Response Number 8
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Name: seventhson
Date: June 19, 2002 at 08:25:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)check out the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP.
i just built myself a gaming computer with this board and it is excellent.
i have an AMD 1700+ processor on it running (so far) at 1.5 ghz.
with the Radeon 7200 64meg video card.
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