Best Motherboard To Use Up PC133 Memory?

dolphin39

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I've still got an old Epox MVP3G5 motherboard that I put some PC133 memory into, and I'm looking at upgrading and still using the old memory. What's the best AMD chipset and motherboard that I can look for? I would probably prefer stability to overclocking capability.
 

Synergy3618

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Well, VIA KT133A motherboards were the last bunch using PC133 DRAM, and ECS K7S5A with SIS 735 chipset is one of the few motherboards supporting both PC133 and DDR PC2100. Also ECS seems finally improved the quality of K7S5A. If you can find the latest version, it'll be very stable but with almost non-existent overclocking options.

You can go to OCworkbench.com's ECS forum

Here

for more info on this board.
 

Peter

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K7S5A all the way. One caveat, if your old RAM is PC100 you need to get a Duron CPU since you can't have 133 MHz CPU bus with 100 MHz RAM.

regards, Peter
 

AndyHui

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Peter always recommends the ECS K7S5A, I always recommend the ASUS A7A266-E.

Both are great boards; the ASUS one has typical ASUS stability, performs very well, has lots of overclocking options, but it is more expensive than the ECS board.