Socket 370 board

[benklop]

I have a question for a friend. He is in need of a Socket 370 board to replace his current mobo in an EMachines PC. He has used all of his three PCI slots and has just bought a high end sound card. What he wants is a good solid mobo with a good amount of PCI slots, that will be upgradeable in the future. Right now he has a Celeron 1ghz but would like to be able to upgrade to a higher speed P3 or Celeron down the line. My question is are there any boards that will let him do this? A board that he found that looked interesting was the Freeway FW-6400GX. However, neither he or I can find a place in the US that sells it, nor could we find a review on it. Please post if you have any info that could help us in our search.

 

[DaveSimmons]

He might need a new case/powersupply too since the eMachines is micro-ATX not full-ATX. newegg has a nice Chieftec on their front page for $50 + $15 shipping. They also carry a $73 GigaByte GA-6OXT-A (i815EP chipset) motherboard with 5 x PCI and an AGP slot so your friend can put in a real graphics card. In fact they'll need one since the mobo has no onboard graphics (tip: a Geforce3 ti is better than a geforce 4 MX).

Googlegear.com still carries some micro-atx, at least one may have 4 PCI slots.

 

[benklop]

What chips does the Gigabyte board you mentioned support? Does it use SDRAM? Will he be able to use his current Celeron processor?