Need recommendation of MicroATX motherboard socket A

[Tdavis5432]

I'm looking for a good MicroATX motherboard for AMD platform, probably going to be using a duron morgan core CPU on it, also needs to be able to accept PC133 SDRAM, would be nice to also accept DDR ram but not needed... Any recommendations is apprecaited, thanks for any input...

 

[optimistic]

Chaintech 7SID for micro ATX that accepts both SDR & DDR.

For any PC133 board I recommend anything with the SIS chipset. SIS730s. Video, sound, IMO is much better on the SIS. Everything just seems 'sluggish & muted on the VIA'

I recommend:
ECS K7SEM (SIS 730) <~~~ Great board!

I also have:
MSI VIA KM133a (forgot the model no.) <~~~ But I recommend the SIS over this.

 

[Tdavis5432]

Had a ECS K7S5A before and thought it wasn't bad, i don't believe it was a mATX mainboard though... I already plan on adding an AGP video card to the machine so onboard video isn't really needed, I don't suppose anyone makes a mATX Nforce chipset or hell maybe Nforce2 chipset??

 

[Peter]

ECS L7VTM is a mATX KT400 board. Not sure whether it's available where you live just yet. This is DDR-only though. For SDRAM and a Duron, you can use a K7SEM (has SiS 730S chipset graphics and AGP slot) or K7SOM/L7SOM (has faster SiS 740 but no AGP slot).

 

[eplebnista]

Biostar M7VIG

 

[natopotato]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Biostar M7VIG

i second that vote. Biostar makes some VERY stable boards. Cheap too.

 

[optimistic]

K75SA? 😕

Anyways, mwave is selling their Asus A7N266-VM (Nforce) microATX mainboard for $70. DOES NOT use PC133.

Here, link for you.

 

[Tdavis5432]

Thanks for the recommendations, I ended up getting him the Biostar m7vig board and it was a real smooth process, board ran great no problem whatsoever, again thanks and i'll add my thumbs up for anyone else looking for a matx motherboard...