SDRAM and T-Bred

[Falloutboy]

well I'm in the process off upgrading my computer and I'm on a budget I was woundering if thier were any boards that have SDRAM and will run a T-Bred core. it would also be nice for it to have RAID and at least 5 pci slots. I know I'm prolly dreaming but worth a shot to see what you guys think.

Also if any of you know if I can get a T-Bred core to work on my Gigabyte GA-7zx-h its a KT133A chipset board. website shows that it supports up to a 2100 palimino chip but didn't say if I could use say a 1700 t-bred.

 

[CraigRT]

you might be stuck with something like the K7S5A but i am not certain if even takes TBreds.
it probably does. but we'll wait to see what someone else says.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Yield
you might be stuck with something like the K7S5A but i am not certain if even takes TBreds.
it probably does. but we'll wait to see what someone else says.

It does, tried it. With SDRAM too. I hate that motherboard though. If the ECS gods are in a pissy mood, your board won't run 133/133. Oh yeah that lost CMOS problem sucks ass too.

Newegg has the shuttle AK32A for like 60 bux. Consider that board also, it does support SDRAM and the BIOS supports up to 2400+ (tbred).

 

[Amber]

Praxis,said

I think there are better SDRAM mobos out there for cheaps. For instance you can order the Biostar M7VIG Pro for $62 delivered and it has onboard LAN, video, sound, as well as USB 2.0 (vs. 1.1 for the K7S5A), with 2 rear ports and 4 front ports (and a front audio port). The M7VIG Pro has 2 DDR slots as well as 2 SDRAM slots and three PCI sockets, as well as an AGP slot (and a CNR, not that anyone really uses that much). Also, the Pro version of this board seems to come with Warpspeeder, an overclocking utility that you can use from within Windows to adjust FSB, multipliers & voltage. I don't think the board is as picky as the K7S5A in terms of RAM and power, either.

Link to SDRAM AMD MOB
More MOB's

 

[WT]

One question on the Biostar board .. it has S3 ProSavage onboard video but can this be disabled and a video card proper installed ? I'm 99% sure it can but did not want to get burned by that 1% oddity. Otherwise it looks like a good upgrade for my sis-in-laws Compaq Presario mATX board (a K6 533 unit that is quite long in the tooth). TIA folks !

 

[Boonesmi]

just in the last few weeks ive probably built 5 or 6 different systems all using t-breds and sdr ram

the motherboards used were:
shuttle mk20n (via kle133 chipset, only takes sdr)
shuttle ak32l (via kt266 chipset, 2ddr and 2sdr slots)
biostar M7VIG **i love this board** (via km266 chipset, has 2ddr and 2sdr slots)
biostar M7VKG (via km133a, has sdr only)

ive started using the biostar M7VIG a whole lot lately... its a great motherboard, can be used in anything from a budget system to a nice performance rig... even though it has onboard video it still has an AGP slot so just install a video card and it auto disables the onboard video (hehe but onboard video is great if your wanting to build a budget system )

 

[d1nonlydeagle]

msi turbo 2 right up to 2600+
or ecs k7s5a

 

[Peter]

(K7S5A) If the ECS gods are in a pissy mood, your board won't run 133/133. Oh yeah that lost CMOS problem sucks ass too.

Newegg has the shuttle AK32A for like 60 bux. Consider that board also, it does support SDRAM and the BIOS supports up to 2400+ (tbred).

... which is made by ECS too Seriously, you need quality power supply and REALLY WORKING (!) SDRAM, then either board will make you happy. (You might have not-really-OK SDRAM that went unnoticed in your previous system ... Athlons push harder on the throughput, which made many migrated DIMMs fail, much to the surprise of the upgrading user. You wouldn't be the first.)