Slightly different question than normal... what's the cheapest AthlonXP compatible board by Asus?

[glenn1]

Title pretty much sums it up... my client wants an Asus board, but doesn't want to spend much money 😕

So what's the cheapest board out there by Asus which is AthlonXP compatible?

 

[jfunk]

<< Asus board, but doesn't want to spend much money >>




I wanna cheap porche too, any ideas? 😉

I always hated customers like that. "I want the best thing you can give me......thats cheaper than anything else I've seen." My experience has always been its best to show those people the door as quickly as possible. They'll always be the ones comming back to complain too. Wanting to know why their $500 box doesn't edit 200MB photoshop files as quickly as his buddies $2000 box.

Anyway, are there any other concerns here? Does it matter if it is DDR or SDR? Does he care about anyhting at all other than if it says ASUS on it? I mean, you could get him an old KT133A board that will run an XP, but it would be kind of a waste....

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[jfunk]

ASUS XP compatability list

Looks like all their boards from KT133A up support XPs.

It seems the a7vl boards can be had as cheaply as $80 + shipping on pricewatch.

You can get a much better board for that...it just won't say ASUS on it.... 🙂



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[glenn1]

<< I always hated customers like that. "I want the best thing you can give me......thats cheaper than anything else I've seen." >>



Hey, it's his money. He plans to play games with it, mainly hockey sims. Wants an XP, 512mb of ram, gave me an old WD 5400rpm hard drive to use as the boot drive to cut down on costs, and spec'ed a Voodoo 4 as the video card. This is going to be one helluva interesting system, to say the least.



<< Anyway, are there any other concerns here? Does it matter if it is DDR or SDR? Does he care about anyhting at all other than if it says ASUS on it? I mean, you could get him an old KT133A board that will run an XP, but it would be kind of a waste.... >>



I doubt the poor boy would know the difference, to be honest. He's one of our site IT guys, so he's one of those types who knows just enough about building and maintaining systems to be dangerous :Q

 

[jfunk]

<< Hey, it's his money. He plans to play games with it, mainly hockey sims. Wants an XP, 512mb of ram, gave me an old WD 5400rpm hard drive to use as the boot drive to cut down on costs, and spec'ed a Voodoo 4 as the video card. This is going to be one helluva interesting system, to say the least. >>




Geez, this guy isn't doing himself any favors. Mabye you should give one shot at explaining to him there are better components to be had for less/equal money. Mabye spec out a system just like he wants, then spec out another with stuff you would put in that doesn't cost much more. Like a Ak31 board w/ some kinda GF2 card or something. Mabye he'll come around....



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[WhiteWizard]

Yea, ASUS and cheap, are not alike!, but an A7A266 could fill your needs, I have one at work and performs perfectly (but with t-bird 1.2B and DDR), I tryed with Win98SE and later keep it running WinXP PRO, no issues yet (2 moths only). Is fast and very reliable. Acording to ASUS it suport a 25% overclocking, but in my case its used to work, so no OC here.
You can save more by using some PC133 and let the DDRs for later, but acording to benchmarks, its a dog with SDR memories. Remember, can't mix memory types!

A7V266-E
Athlon 1.2b @ 1301 (9.5x137Mhz)
Titan D5T cooler and 4 case coolers (just in case!)
512Mb DDR RAM (unbranded, 2x256Mb sticks)
Promise RAID 0 on 2 IBM Desktars 15Gb
CL Anihilator II
CL Live! Platinium
Aopen Hq08 full tower case (300 What PS)
DVD and CDROM on normal IDE channels
Win XP Pro OEM

 

[glenn1]

I'm doing what i can... i suggested the MSI Nforce, but he just seems fixated on Asus and 3DFX... i'll give him one more shot, if he insists on going the Asus and V4500 route, i'll probably just point him politely to Newegg, and let him figure it out himself...


thanks for the link and advice 🙂

 

[Kris]

That won't work, newegg hasnt sold 3dfx in awhile.

What a sad story this is.

 

[GEShields]

Glenn1, yhpm!