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Best mother board for old AGP AMD XP etc parts?

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mikeford

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I've got a couple XP Pro systems that are showing age, ready to die, but the components I think still have some life in them if I could find a really solid mother board to put them in, and I still do have uses for the older systems. All are AMD, I think Athlon 1.8 or so to 3.0, but I don't know what "socket" that makes them.

Any suggestions for "final" mother boards to use the old parts?
 
Spend the $400~ and upgrade... any $400 PC from today can do the tasks you're running on a number of those older PCs... at the same time. (I assume you're running servers?)
 
jaydee said:
What makes you think the motherboards are dying, and all the other components are good?
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On one of the systems the fan on the cpu runs when the system is off, seems not good to me, plus that system sometimes fails to boot, nothing happens, other flaky stuff.

More than one old system, have new systems, want a good old one for some old games. With a known good mother board, it makes parts testing much easier. I hate to waste the old parts or too much of my own time.
 
I'm in the same position reinstalling XP on my families machines from that era. Check my sig for the best Socket A (Socket 462) Athlon XP motherboard made.
 
That ASUS MB does look pretty good, wonder what the chances are finding a good one used at a good price?

Is there much difference between the Deluxe, VM, and LA versions?
 
I done a bit of research, and it seems that many of the 3 to 5 year old boards have capacitor issues, including the ASUS. Is it really a good idea to be buying any of the older systems, or if they are still working maybe the bad units have been weeded out?
 
Well I've got 2 ASUS A7N8X-E models and one of them I can't get the battery on the motherboard to keep the time but it never gets unplugged so its not really an issue.

This is really a problem of all the motherboards of this era and since they no longer make Socket A boards you can't really get around it.

Both of my boards are 6-7 years old now and still going strong so I would find the best one you could find on fleaBay and just hope for the best.

You can occasionally find new / unused Socket A boards but the high end ones still carry a price premium as they are still in demand.
 
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