Asus motherboards, which one?

[carolyn2u2]

What's the difference between the Asus A7M266, A7B266, and A7V266 boards? I'm trying to decide which one will work best with a 1 gig Athlon or Duron chip.

 

[Rafael]

The difference between them is the chipset that they use. The A7M266 uses the AMD761, the A7N266(I guess it is a N instead of a B) uses the Nvidia Nforce chipset, and the A7V266 uses the VIA KT266 chipset.
But to choose between them really depends on what you gonna use it for, and how much you want to spend.
Best motherboard is the A7V266-E, in my opinion, this mobo uses the VIA KT266A chipset.
Tell us what are you going to do with this computer(office working, writting documents, surfing the web), so we can recommend you a good motherboard to use.

Raf

 

[pillage2001]

The latest board from Asus uses the Kt266A chipset which is currently the best chipset for AMD Cpus. It's the A7V266E mobo. Not too sure about the A7M and the A7B though. Is there even a A7B??? A7M uses a older chipset. I believe it's a AMD 760 chipset.

Go for the A7V266E if you want performance.