Need advice on socket 7 mobo please :)

[SeaSerpent]

I need to find a good socket 7 mobo for my wife. Something stable, and no onboard video. I have a K62 550 to put on it. Thanks...Chris......(It is drives me nuts that she uses my pc )

 

[grrl]

I used a Tyan S1598 for my K6-III. I had no problems with it.

 

[mjquilly]

I had an awesome one from DFI...don't remember the model. I sold it to my dad for his work and he hasn't had any problems with it (belive me, that's amazing!)

 

[speed01]

FIC VA-503+ works great with my K62-500. It should suit your needs.

 

[sandorski]

The Epox and Asus SS7 mobos were great.

 

[Athlon4all]

I only one I would ever recommend (even though I never used it) was Asus P5A.

 

[Sundog]

P5A was an awesome board!

 

[Chadder007]

Still working with my good ole Soyo MB and K6-400

 

[SeaSerpent]

Thanks for all the ideas guys

 

[Tanked]

I've played around with a ton of Socket 7 stuff, and I really liked the Gigabyte GA-5AX (Aladdin-V) board, and the DFI K6XV-66+ was also nice. The GA-5AX is pretty amazing, it actually handles an AGP GeForce DDR without any problems (knock on wood)...

 

[thirdeye]

i have an Epox MVP3G5 that is still running great to this day. Nearly 3 years old if i remember right. Also had a FIC VA-503+ that was pretty decent too

 

[Adul]

I got a really old tyan tomcat 3 running that has an adapter to allow me to run a k6-2 400 in it. 392 MB of ram and this board will still recognize 30 GB hard drives.

 

[AA0]

P5A was a really good board for socket 7, unfortunately it has the Ali chipset so AGP problems do exist. Better than the really old VIA chipsets though.

 

[Copperpipe]

My humble recommendations....

For AT style mobos: DFI K6BV3+66 (ATA66 support), Epox EP-MVP3C2 (ATA66 + BIOS & jumper FSB speeds > 100)

For ATX: Tyan S1598 and the Epox EP-MVP3G2 or G5

But you are going to have a hard time finding these.

The Soyo 5EHM and FIC VA503+ are available at some online retailers but I haven't any experience with these.

 

[CigarSmokedByClinton]

I am still using Asus P5A w/ K6-2 450. STABLE AS A ROCK (Kind of weird expression, Rocks are hard, not stable )

Running WinXP 128M RAM

Cigar