Suggestions: Cheap Duron MB that will go Athlon Later?

[Helznicht]

My Mother-in Law just lost her MotherBoard (BX6) she was running her cel 750 on, and she asked me for suggestions on what to get for a small budget with future potential.

So im looking for something I can run a 750 duron on now but be able to take a Athlon-266fsb much later (over a year). To be honest, she never used her 750 to full potential.

Thanks for your help.

Will also take suggestions for continue using the Celery 750, if a good MB with upgrade future for intel exists (maybe a P3-Tul far in the future when there cheap).

 

[tippmann]

Several friends and I have purchased the Iwil KK266 ($110) They have worked great everytime...

 

[whitelight]

a tbird 1ghz is around $80 right now. price difference between that and a duron 750 is around $40-50, but the tbird will last a lot longer. but if your mother-in-law just uses the comp for word processing and web surfing, a duron 750 should be very sufficient.

 

[MCS]

Well any current AMD motherboard will take an Athlon later on. Moving to AMD rather than replacing the board with another Intel one will definitely give you better future upgradability.

 

[Helznicht]

How about the $70 K7S5A from ECS using sis735 chipset? How fast will this go (cpu clock-wise) ?

Does it flat out suck? Nada stable?

Thanks