Trying to remember. Which SocketA MB was the best?

[Desslok]

Was it the Nividia Nforce 2's?

 

[BladeVenom]

That was probably the best chipset, and Abit's Nf7 series was also probably the best boards for it.

 

[Kid Vicious]

Asus A7N8X was also popular, and widely used with the Barton/Mobile Barton XP 3500 from what I can recall.

 

[Shimmishim]

abit nf7-s, dfi lanparty ultra-b, dfi infinity... are the ones i owned...

 

[Desslok]

Thanks for the info guys.

 

[CallMeJoe]

I have 2 NF7-S systems still in daily use, one running 24/7.

 

[cubeless]

k7s5a forever!!!

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

A7N8X Deluxe. In addition to being a great overclocking board it also came with SoundStorm and had a nearly perfect layout. My bosses machine at work is still running that board and when we upgrade sometime soon, I intend to reclaim it.

 

[imported_Moriturus]

Originally posted by: cubeless
k7s5a forever!!!

HAHA!! I had a couple. One caught on fire. They were prone to randomly re-setting the BIOS to default settings. I always thought that it was a good thing that the chipset heatsinks stayed so cool. When I took the heatsink off the chipset on the burnt K7S5A mobo, it turned out that it was glued on with cheap rubber cement. Nice decorative flourish, though; the heatsink's colors brought the rest of the mobo layout together . . .

 

[KJ42]

I just retired my MSI KT3 Ultra2-R system a couple days ago, lol.

 

[imported_derekn]

I went a little crazy buying SocketA motherboards.

I owned 2 ECS k7s5a motherboards (2 different revisions). I also owned an Asus a7v8x. ALL 3 of those motherboards died eventually (within 3-6 months) and didn't last long. My first SocketA motherbard was a Tyan s2390b (VIAKT133a chipset). I had major problems with it but eventually became stable and I gave it to a friend (as far as I know it's still running).

I had the best SUCCESS with 2 Abit NF7 v2 motherboards and an Asus a7n8x deluxe rev 1.04. Those 3 motherboards are still working and running 24/7. I have an Asus a7v8x-x motherboard that I don't run full time. as I don't like how hot the KT400a chipset gets It's still working.

 

[sjwaste]

nforce2 was the best for overclocking, as the VIA chipsets didn't allow for fixing the AGP/PCI clocks. If you increased FSB, up they went too.

I had a VIA board for my HTPC, but my 2500+ at stock speeds just was a little too underpowered for HD content, so I bought an ECS N2U400 off of Ebay and oc'ed at stock voltage to 3200+. It could go further, but this board doesnt allow vcore adjustments.

The NF7 is the best as far as I can see from archived reviews I googled. There's usually a few of them on Ebay, at a premium ($80 or so).

 

[Allio]

The EPoX 8RDA+ was a great overclocker, but got hit really badly by the bad cap plague.

 

[Zap]

Chipset was Nforce2 400 Ultra. One decent and really budget board was the Shuttle AN32N or something like that.

 

[JPB]

Gigabyte 7VAXP

 

[sharad]

Abit NF7-S