need a suggestion for a replacement motherboard

dabuddha

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My current motherboard might be fried (Shuttle AK32L) and I need to find a replacement.

The CPU I'm using on there is an athlon 1900+ XP with a 266 FSB

My main concern is price and stability.
I don't need any fancy features at all since this machine acts as my file server mainly. I just want it to be stable. I don't want to overclock my CPU as well. It does need to be a Full size ATX board.

I was looking at this board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127166#DetailSpecs

But I got confused about one thing. According to Newegg, it supports 333/400 FSB.
According to Abit's site:

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=124

It says it supports 200/266/333/400 FSB.

I was also looking at this board:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240143

But those are a little pricey. I know I have to spend money but I'm trying to save as much as I can because it's not my main rig.

TIA! :)
 

o1die

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Jul 8, 2001
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I'd go for the second board. Abit makes pretty good boards, and you might as well save some money.
 

11427

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You may also want to look at some flavors of the Epox 8rda, Asus A7n8x, or MSI K7N2. Just about any board should be plenty stable if you have no plans to OC. I'd say just pick the board with the features you want at the price you like.
 

Yurkinator

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I have the NF7-S revision 2.0 and it works great, I love it.

Only thing bad thing I can say is the northbridge fan would whine when I started the computer after a couple of months. Easily replaced it with a zalman pasive cooler.