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athlon barton era motherboards

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ZippyDan

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i need one to fix an aging computer in my posession with a barton core and agp video card

with the benefit of hindsight... which specific models should i be looking for for performance and reliability (wasnt this around the time of the bursting caps fiasco? also i seem to remember boards having difficulty running stable with too many memory chips also)
 
Asus A7N8X-DLX and Abit NF7-S were typically regarded as the epitome of Socket A mobos based on Nvidia's NForce 2 chipset. I think they were actually limited to 3 dimm slots. I sold mine a few years ago and it turned out to be DOA, not sure what the problem was, perhaps something as simple as the CMOS battery. I was very happy with it for the time I had it, fast and stable with excellent features for the time (including SoundStorm DDLive).
 
You might also try some of the sites mentioned on this thread in 'General Hardware'. 3B Tech has the ASUS A7N8X deluxe for $50, free postage, which makes it comparable to the eBay vendor DaPunisher listed. Chizow is correct that many nForce2 boards had only three DIMM slots (I think maxing out at 512 MB each).

As far as I'm aware ASUS boards never suffered from the dodgy caps, but Abit and MSI may have done? An old Abit NF7-M board of my buddy's just blew out, and I'm debating whether to get an nForce2 board so that the Barton won't go to waste.

I may also need to find a socket 939 board soon as well. :frown:
 
As you can tell from my SIG I'm still running mine and in fact just installed Quake Wars: Enemy Territory and it runs great on this era of computer along with me newer video card!

I wouldn't recommend anything but the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe although I have heard that the ABIT NF7-S V2 was pretty good as well.

 
Gigabyte GA-7N400 PRO was an awesome board, I still have mine running a rare AXP 3200+ 2.33GHz (166x14) model, it's still pretty quick even by today standards.
 
Shuttle AN35N Ultra is a great board. Slim on features but was rock solid and overclocked well, especially good for mobile bartons.
 
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