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Best Overall MOBO for Athlon XP is...?

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Im building a new system, and want to get the best possible MOBO out there. I have a Radeon 8500 that I will be using as my video card. Extra USB slots are not a necesity as I have a USB HUB. Currently I have 3 physical harddrives, its a long story, that equal 73gb of data. There all pretty close to being full, and I was thinking of buying 1 Western Digital 80gigger to put in this new system. Would I need RAID for this? I will be using WIndows XP and Athlon XP 1800. Id like to do some minor OC'ing on this card, so Id also need a MOBO with a highly customizable BIOS for the FSB, and temps, etc. Whats the best for all this? I need to get some boards going through my head, since my birthday is coming up, and if I dont through out ideas now, I may never get the chance. Please help. Thanks!
 
i would probably take the soyo dragon+ (its got onboard raid, onboard lan, high quality 6 channel sound, good overclocking features)

the dragon+ is based on the kt266a chipset, with the kt333 chipset boards just coming out they are a little newer/faster, but i dont know of any that have all the features of the soyo board


after typing that i ran a quick search and found the Gigabyte GA-7VRXP its got most of the same features of the dragon+ but its based on the newer kt333 chipset, ive not read any reviews of it, and i dont know what kind of overclocking features it has

you can find those boards at www.newegg.com
 
I'm pretty happy with my Gigabyte.

Stability solution:

AMD 761/Via786B, one of the most stable chipset config among Athlon boards.

Built in ATA100 Promise RAID that can also function as two additional IDE controller.

Built in Creative CT5880 hardware audio(comparable to PCI 128)

Dual-BIOS

Three DDR slot

Speed solution:

GA-7VRXP

VIA KT333 / 8233A(CE) chipset
CHIPSET
Southbridge : VIA 8233A(CE)
VIA V-Link architecture (266MB/s)
VIA VT6202 USB 2.0 controller
Super I/O : ITE IT8705F
Smart I/O : Winbond Smart@IO
Promise PDC20276 ATA 133 RAID controller
Raeltek 8100BL Ethernet 10/100Mb LAN controller
Creative CT5880 PCI

It supports DDR PC2700





 
No mention of the bioStar M7VIF kt 333 here yet..newegg's been selling a bunch of them. Any body built a M7VIF box yet??
 
I love my A7V266-E board, it has everything you could want on it. The A7V333 might be a better choice now though.
 
Shuttle is releasing a version 2 for their AK35 GTR. But this time bundled with the KT333 chipset. Comes with your usual promise ATA133 raid/ 4 DDR dimms / 1AGP(4x) / 6 PCI / Cmedia 6ch sound.
 
So for 142, hold I just get the Soyo Dragon +. It looks like an awesome board, +has everything. Im gonna get it. Thanks
 


<< So for 142, hold I just get the Soyo Dragon +. It looks like an awesome board, +has everything. Im gonna get it. Thanks >>



i just ordered one myself, hope it doesn't disapoint, good luck with yours!
 
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