Selling old board. What new board to get??

[Dunjon]

A friend wants to buy my Kt7a-raid and 1.4Gig CPU for $300. I guess I'd be stupid not to sell it but what do I get to replace it? I almost certain have to have the extra raid ide controllers and I'm not sure is I should stay with sdram or go to ddr ram. I got 768 megs in this machine and shes not buying the ram from me. So it'll be ram wasted if I go DDR and then I'll have to buy new expensive ram. Also I wan to go up to atleast an XP1800+ maybe even 1900. Any thoughts??

Are there any SDRAM boards with 4 or more ram slots?

 

[Boonesmi]

hehe she must not be much of a friend if your selling her just the mobo+cpu for $300


but if your going to upgrade it would be useless not to go with a ddr motherboard, just sell your ram in the for sale/trade forum and buy some ddr

none of the newer boards use only sdram, but there are a few newer boards that do have both ddr and sdram slots, but usually only 2 slots each.

so if you need a board that will hold 3 or 4 sticks of pc133 then you will need to get a board based on the same chipset as your current board, the kt133a... if you are going to buy a board based on this chipset i always liked the epox 8kta3+ (has 4 dimms)

 

[Dunjon]

I actually like that Epox board. With 4 ram slots I could have a full one GIG of memory! (evil laugh)

DDR is maybe just too scattered for me to invest in right now. I mean if you get the 266DDR board now what do you do when everone gets the faster 333 DDR ram. Nvidia seems to be the chipset of choice but I haven't seen any of their motherboard that I like.

 

[Boonesmi]

athlons are going to stay on the 133mhz bus for awhile still, and they really dont give much of a performance gain when you run them asynchronous with 166mhz ram

for that reason there is really very little performance advantage to running ddr333 or ddr400... so i wouldnt hestitate to buy pc2100 and let it serve you for a good long while.

as far as the best/highest performing of the current motherboards i would suggest a board based on the via kt333 chipset (ie epox 8k3a, + many others)

 

[BarMan]

well I just sold my Soyo Dragon+ board to get the new Epox 8k3a+ board.
i hear it's a screaming overclocker, but since it is I'd have to say it's not the
best in stability. personally I'd recommend soyo's dragon series for stability.
I couldn't have asked for a more stable setup, installed Win2000 pro once and
I'm still using the same install (I'll have to redo it when I get my epox ofcourse),
from when I switched from the dragon to the dragon+.