I'm considering gutting my current system, and replacing the motherboard, processor, RAM, etc, in the near future, and I was looking for a good KT266A or KT333 motherboard. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any reliable roundups of a large number of KT333 motherboards yet. So I was looking around at various ones that I saw for sale. I was also considering saving money and going with a KT266A motherboard too.
On the KT266A side, I've heard good things about the ASUS A7V266-E/AA (The one with no RAID. I don't want to have to pay for RAID if I don't have to. I have no use for it.), the EPoX 8KHA+, the ABit KR7A (No RAID, again, and no ATA 133), and the Soyo Dragon Plus. I'm leaning towards the ASUS (I'm not so interested in overclocking and RAID features and stuff, just stability and performance out of the box.) model, but I wanted to know about some others' opinions first. Which out of these are the best boards?
The KT333 looks like it might squeeze some extra performance out of the athlon, with the proper board, and I was looking at Gigabyte's, EPoX's, Abit's, ASUS's, and Soyo's boards, for this chipset. All these boards look pretty nice, but I found one problem with the ASUS board, while looking around. Mushkin's website (Under their mainboard qualification page) claims that ASUS's A7V333 supplies too much voltage to the memory by default, at levels high enough to kill the DIMMs rather quickly. Is this true?
When it comes down to it, my question is, which KT266A or KT333 motherboard should I use to get good performance and excellent stability out of the box, without too much hassle and paying a lot of money for features I'm not going to use?
Thanks,
Nekora
On the KT266A side, I've heard good things about the ASUS A7V266-E/AA (The one with no RAID. I don't want to have to pay for RAID if I don't have to. I have no use for it.), the EPoX 8KHA+, the ABit KR7A (No RAID, again, and no ATA 133), and the Soyo Dragon Plus. I'm leaning towards the ASUS (I'm not so interested in overclocking and RAID features and stuff, just stability and performance out of the box.) model, but I wanted to know about some others' opinions first. Which out of these are the best boards?
The KT333 looks like it might squeeze some extra performance out of the athlon, with the proper board, and I was looking at Gigabyte's, EPoX's, Abit's, ASUS's, and Soyo's boards, for this chipset. All these boards look pretty nice, but I found one problem with the ASUS board, while looking around. Mushkin's website (Under their mainboard qualification page) claims that ASUS's A7V333 supplies too much voltage to the memory by default, at levels high enough to kill the DIMMs rather quickly. Is this true?
When it comes down to it, my question is, which KT266A or KT333 motherboard should I use to get good performance and excellent stability out of the box, without too much hassle and paying a lot of money for features I'm not going to use?
Thanks,
Nekora
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