I will buy new DDR mobo this week. what's the best?

[broadwayblue]

does asus have no multiplier adjustments on all their boards?

 

[Planktune]

I read no multiplier on the A7M266. maybe AMD made em not

 

[broadwayblue]

do you think the a7v266 will have them?

a7v266

i was thinking of getting one when it comes out later this month.

 

[Planktune]

who has 2100 DDR ram for reasonable price. (~$100 256meg) ?

 

[Planktune]

that ASUS A7V266 is the new via V-link chipset?
I hope they don't use that stinkin 686b bridge.

 

[broadwayblue]

yes it uses the v-link chipset.

from anands web news

"We learned about a DDR Socket A mainboard from ASUS based on VIA KT266 chipset. It will be called ASUS A7V266 and like many other DDR solutions from this company, it will offer very rich opportunities for flexible memory configuring. For this purpose A7V266 will be equipped not only with two 184-pin DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM but also with three 168-pin DIMM slots for PC133 SDRAM. As for the expansion slots, ASUS A7V266 will have 5 PCI, 1 AGP Pro and 1 ACR slot.
The mainboard will also feature an integrated four-channel sound controller from C-media and ATA/100 RAID controller from Promise. Moreover, we would like to mention that A7V266 will be a good thing for CPU overclocking offering the opportunity to change the FSB frequency with 1MHz increments. The first shipments should be arranged in the end of March or beginning of April."

 

[IntelConvert]

I can fill you in quite a bit more...

The KT266 chipset uses new North and South Bridges, the VT8633 and VT8233 respectively. For comparison, the current KT133A chipset uses the VT8363A North Bridge and the VT82C686B South Bridge (as most of you know).

The KT266 connects the Host (North) and Client (South) Bridges by means of a (new) V-link bus with a data-rate of 266MB/sec. Current VIA chipsets (e.g., the KT133 and KT133A) connect their two bridges by means of a PCI bus with a data-rate of 133MB/sec.

Hope that helps!

 

[Geocross]

For those of you who wanted a link on the favorable comparison between the Will Ali MB and a 760 board, here it is: link. This is between the Gigabyte board ant the Iwill, but there really isn't that much difference between th eAsus and Gigabyte boards in terms of performance. I would say, if you had to buy one RIGHT now, the Iwill is the best DDR solution out there. As an added bonus, it supports 3 Dimm slots for DDR memory. I would like to see how it stacks up to the Via boards, however. One note, the Iwill board has actually even improved its benchmarks with the latest bios, which came out about two weeks ago, though I don't have a link to support that claim.

 

[broadwayblue]

intelconvert...thanks for the info.

 

[Planktune]

you guys are great thanks for all the help.

 

[Punamo]

With crucial dropping the PC2100 DDR ram to ~$60+ it's about time to get DDR systems.

 

[Planktune]

If you see that ram on the crucial site buy it. it doesnt stay in stock long at all..

 

[broadwayblue]

i still have a couple of sticks in my cart...very close to pulling the trigger!

 

[Punamo]

Bah! The crucial PC2100 DDR memory is out of stock!

Oh well, I haven't gotten a single thing to built my system yet so I'm fine.

I just wish there were more DDR MB's to select from.