A7V8X-MX or A7N266-VM--Which one to go for?

[unbiased]

I am building a lowcost system for my friend.Processor is athlon2000+.There is a choice between
A7V8X-MX (VIA-KM400) and A7N266-VM(Nforce220D).Which one is better.Please advise?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The A7V8X-MX is a newer, more updated feature-set model that supports more CPUs, higher FSB, and has USB2.0. The only thing in the A7N266-VM's favor is the audio since the price is the same.

 

[tomcas1]

 

[tomcas1]

I can't speak for the A7V8-MX but I can for the A7N266VM. The Nvidia chipset board is solid as a rock. Yeah, its getting kind of dated but it will never give you any problems. All the onboard features (sound ,network, video ) work flawlessly. I built six of them (the last a XP2400) , all windows 2000 without any problems. Unlike some of the Asus Via chipset boards this one is not picky about its DDR. I used the cheapest sticks I could find and then tested them with Simm and Windows memory tester to be sure they were compatible. If you go with the Via I would use Samsung memory.
Being sold on Nvidia, if you want a little more up to date all in one I'd look at the A7N8X-VM.

 

[unbiased]

Thanx Dapunisher and Tomcas.
One liitle querry more. Which mobo of these two has better onboard graphics.The AGP upgrade is not envisaged in the near future.So I would like to know.Any links available for comparison?Google didn,t help.

 

[Boonesmi]

neither are high power onboard video boards

the a7n266-vm (nforce) will be a little faster in gaming (geforce2 mx)
the a7v8x-mx (km400) will be better at stuff like dvd (it uses the new UniChrome that has hardware MPEG-2 acceleration and DuoView)


on the whole i would take the a7v8x-mx in a hearbeat over the nforce board (much newer, much more stable, more features, all around better board)

but if you do go with the nforce make sure you use winXP (nforce doesnt like win9x or linux at all)

 

[unbiased]

Thanx Boonsmi

So A7V8X-MX it is.

Thanx again.