If you were going to buy a motherboard for an AMD Barton for $125 or less, what would you get?

[CoolTech]

If you were going to buy a motherboard for an AMD Barton for $125 or less, what would you get? Also, what RAM would you get? I was looking at Corsair, but its 80 dollars for 256mb, is it worth the price?

 

[Vette73]

Abit NF7-S is what I got. Great board with great on-board sound.

As for ram I am using 2 slabs of 256mg Geil PC3200. I have it clocked at PC2700, same speed as the CPU, but have the timings set to above average for it. Its cheap and works for me.

 

[11427]

I'd go with Asus A7N8X Deluxe, or Abit NF7. As for mem Kingston HyperX PC3500 or Corsair XMS PC3200
but thats just me.
and my two cents, for a value system ECS L7S7A2 and 512mb Samsung PC3200 (you could prolly get both for close to $125)

 

[DAVIDS]

I have an NF7-S V2.0 and have had zero problems with it. I'm running an Athlon XP 1700+ at 2300MHz. A lot of people with NF7-S boards are using Corsair XMS3200, mainly because you can get tight memory timings. I'm using Corsair XMS3500 and it works great. I've seen the NF7-S advertised for around $100. Just make sure you get Version 2.0.

 

[novice]

Being a real bargain hunter, I went for a Shuttle AN35N for $66 for my XP 1700+ "B". It will handle a Barton fine when I decide to upgrade it again. As for ram, I am running a single stick of Kingston PC-2700 Valueram that just happened to come with Winbond chips. It is running very nicely at 175 Mhz as we speak. Were I to go for better quality ram, I would look hard for a deal on Kingston Hyper X or maybe try some of the Buffalo Technology stuff from newegg (about $90 for a 512 mb stick of PC-3200) Good luck.

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: 11427
I'd go with Asus A7N8X Deluxe, or Abit NF7. As for mem Kingston HyperX PC3500 or Corsair XMS PC3200
but thats just me.