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Motherboard recommendations needed for a Duron 800

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Salvador

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I'm looking for a stable motherboard to go along with a Duron 800 that I have sitting around. I want to run SDRAM (PC133) and I want something that isn't fussy about power supplies (ECS K7S5A).

I was looking at KT133A chipset boards that support PC133 SDRAM, but if I have a 200FSB 800 Duron, isn't this overkill?

Thanks!

Sal
 
It's not overkill if you can manage to coax a 133MHz FSB overclock out of the Duron. The KT133A are about the best SDRAM-based socket A boards you can get, regardless if you can OC your chip or not. Plus they are hella cheap if you get a used one over in FS/FT.
 
i like the kt133a (i built tons of systems using boards with that chipset) but... you would really be much better off getting a km266 based board. it has a much better memory controller and is rock stable (again, i loved the kt133a, but they did crash a little more often)

most km266 boards only have ddr ram slots, but the chipset does also support pc133. lots of boards out there will work for you (the biostar m7vig or m7vig pro come to mind)

also, even though the "km" series have integrated video. they also have an agp slot. so installing a video card auto disables the onboard video.

another advantage is lots of km266 based boards come with the vt8235 southbridge. this means you will have usb 2.0 support not have as much worry about the infamous via/pci problems

here is a LINK to the board that i probably used in the most builds this last few years (granted i dont use them anymore since most of my new builds either use 333/400mhz fsb or run athlon64's)

 
ohh and one other thing i should have mentioned above 🙂

i ran several of those systems with the m7vig using generic/crappy 300w powersupplies... ahh now that i think about it, ive still got a system running that board, and its running off a mATX 180w powersupply (granted is a nicer quality one 😀 ) its in my mini htpc
 
Im running that very ECS board with that very Duron with a half gig of PC133 mem for my mail server... rock solid, and relatively little heat output.
 
Originally posted by: Thoreau
Im running that very ECS board with that very Duron with a half gig of PC133 mem for my mail server... rock solid, and relatively little heat output.
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the problem is he wants to use a board that isn't fussy about power supplies and the k7s5a is infamous for problems when not using high quality powersupplies



but all in all the k7s5a is a pretty good board, ive used it in probably 10 or so builds.
 
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