Best Motherboard For An AMD Athlon Axia 1.33 266 FSB CPU

[JonathanF]

I had just purchased a AMD Athlon Axia 1.33 266 FSB CPU.

I had researched the following:

ASUS A7A266 ALI DDR/SDRAM ATX - I heard that this ASUS Motherboard is not good for Overclocking, and that the ALI Majik1 Chipset is not that stable.

BIOSTAR M7MIA AMD761 DDT ATX - I heard that the AMD761 Chipset is the most stable for the AMD Athlon CPU right now. How is this Motherboard for overclocking?

MICROSTAR K7T266 DDT KT266 ATX - I heard that the VIA KT266 Chipset is very new, but not as stable as the AMD761 Chipset is now.

Which is best Motherboard choice for my AMD Athlon Axia 1.33 266 FSB CPU Chip?

Are there any other Motherboards that are better then the three that I listed?

Please let me know.

Jonathan

 

[Odeen]

If you already have a 1.333, don't overclock. Seriously. Not worth it.

But, you have an Axia. Blast your eyes. Then you want an AMD 761-based motherboard.

My favorites:
EPoX EP-8K7A: Cheap, good, overclocking features, POST code reader built-in, 6 PCI, 2 DIMM. I have one. Good performance
Gigabyte GA-7DXR: 3 DIMM slots, extra IDE controller (IDE RAID is scary!), good performance also.
Asus A7V266: Expensive, 2 DIMM's, little overclocking features - but should be stable as sin.


Hope this helped... Alex

 

[Anaconda]

<<Asus A7V266: Expensive, 2 DIMM's, little overclocking features - but should be stable as sin.>>

Don't you mean A7A266? Because the A7V266 has EXCELLENT overclocking features

 

[Odeen]

I meant _A7M_

Arg.

A7V: Via 133A, SDRAM only
A7M: AMD 761, DDR only
A7A: Ali Magick1, SDRAM or DDR.....

 

[GundamF91]

there's A7V266 coming soon...based on VIA KT266 chipset. Suppose to be the most mature KT266 solutions yet, but we'll see if can overtake AMD760, which I doubt. If anything the Sis735's looking good, but probably not going to make it, since there's just not enough support. No mobo manufacturer is going to be like Asus, support 3 different chipsets for a single socket. That's just not cost effective.

 

[nyati]

The BioStar M7MIA is stable as rock, but has very limited overclocking. The FSB options are 133,138,144,150,IIRC, (on my board the 144 setting actually runs 146, any other M7MIA users out there getting the same thing?).

 

[Biggs]

That's the problem with going DDR right now as there is no &quot;Best Motherboard For An AMD Athlon Axia 1.33 266 FSB CPU&quot; yet. There are good ones like the Asus, Epox, Gigabyte AMD 760 chipsets but the clear winner has yet to be determined.