Socket A

[montec]

I am looking for a budget mb for my 2500+ athlon xp with 512mb 2700ddr ram. any help will be appreciated

 

[mechBgon]

Welcome to the Forums The Shuttle AN35N Ultra is worth a look, they have a good reputation as a no-frills overclockable board: http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=13-150-045&depa=0 Is that within your price range?

Note that this board uses an ATX12V cable, does your power supply have one?

 

[essasin]

Def the shuttle an35n ultra. THe best bang for the buck socket A mobo. I think the next one would be Abit NF7-S or the DFI Infinity.

 

[farscapesg1]

You could always check the For Sale forum. Socket A motherboards seem to come up fairly often.

 

[montec]

the case that I am geting for the new pc is ANTEC Performance Plus Case with 430W Power Supply, Model "PLUS1080AMG.

 

[magratton]

Definitly check the FSFT forum, you can pick up a NF7-S V2.0 (avoid NF7-S 2, they are different!) board for $65, not bad for the couple of features over the Shuttle mentioned above. If you can't find one, the shuttle is an excellent choise as well.

 

[montec]

ok so I found a mb that looks semi decent it is "Item #: C460-1022 Chaintech 7NJL6 nVidia Socket A ATX Motherboard / AGP 4X/8X / 10/100 Ethernet LAN Support / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA / RAID"@ tiger*****.com. does anybody know of any good reviws or is it not that great

 

[montec]

*bump*

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: montec
ok so I found a mb that looks semi decent it is "Item #: C460-1022 Chaintech 7NJL6 nVidia Socket A ATX Motherboard / AGP 4X/8X / 10/100 Ethernet LAN Support / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA / RAID"@ tiger*****.com. does anybody know of any good reviws or is it not that great

the Shuttle would prob. be better

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

There are no overclocking options on that Chaintech board. I personally would go with the ASRock K7Upgrade-880, as it is cheaper and has more features compared to the Shuttle AN35N Ultra.

 

[montec]

*bump*

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: montec
*bump*

you still looking for more recommendations?

 

[montec]

yes I am still lokking for recomondations. They have all been good butam looking to see some other rec on mobos. I'm kinda picky cause it will be a long time if I get this before my wife will let me buy an upgrade. I had just planed on making the xfr and possibly next year upgradeing to athlon 64 fx55 if possible but will have to stick with socket A due to this but all well. hopefully will find one within a week or two max.

 

[montec]

still needing some help

 

[Fern]

Ok, the three most popular/common good NF2 sktA are already mentioned above: NF7-S, DFI, & Shuttle (asus is preety popular/common too). Is there something about these that you don't like? Or are they lacking some feature you need?

Or are you not sure yet (needing more peeps to vouch for them) these ARE the most popular/common, most often recommended NF2 mobo's?

You could do some scanning/reading over at the nForcersHQ.com forums. This is a forums for the various NF2 mobo's.

If price is still a concern and you don't mind refurbs Dumpinggoods.com often has refurb NF2 mobo's for sale pretty cheap.

You could prolly google something like "nForce 2 round up" or "socket A round-up" (if you want a mobo with Via chipset instead of the nVidia chipset). There have been lots of reveiws of Socket A mobo's done in the past.Now, pretty much everyone is focused ob the 64 bit offerings.

Fern

 

[montec]

thnx for the input. was undecided so was looking to see what else was offered and everywhere I posted cam up with the abit, shuttle, asus, and a gigabyte, only seen the dfi here buth that is the most expensive for my pocket. but am more seriusly looking @ the shuttle. I checked out some benchmarks and it seemed to be the best of what I could find. I don't mind dumping grounds but they don't ship some parts that I may need