$50 Athlon boards

[Viztech]

Think these are any good?
Asus K7M for HP

I have a young friend who is looking at one of these.

viz

edit- Wonder what they mean by 'minor settings?'

 

[Russ]

Viz,

As long as he doesn't want to do any tweaking and doesn't care if he has a reset switch, HDD LED and only one serial port, they'll be fine. It is ASUS, but the OEM versions of these are very stripped down. I have several Intel flavored OEM ASUS's and basically the only thing they let you do is plug in the chip.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Viztech]

Yup, that's what I figured.

Thanx Russ

viz

 

[toph99]

like Russ said, so long as he doesn't have the urge to tweak anything, it should be fine. i have an Intel motherboard in my dell, and it doesn't let you change a thing, not even the ram latencies(they are CAS2 pc-100 running CAS3) but hey, the computer works perfectly

 

[BurntKooshie]

Thanks! If all else fails, I have myself a motherboard (finally)

Go VIZ!

 

[cory]

for me asus has always been pretty good.
( i have 11 of their mbs right now
and most are running at 150mhz in p3bf's)

i dont know about that model but i have had
very good luck with overclocking
even older asus mb's
but the oem ones really do limit things