Well im about to order this motherboard. Nothing special but..

[Twista]

I lost my biostar motherboard (fuk biostar and im never touching there motherboard)
Im not going to get into the story. I could get a asus but im not touching a VIA chipset again because it has problems with radeon cards.
This is on a tight budget! Anyways im getting...

SYNTAX "S746FX" SiS746FX Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL

Model# S746FX
Item # N82E16813183010

Specifications:
Supported CPU: Socket A for AMD Athlon XP/Athlon Processor
Chipset: SiS746FX + SiS963
FSB: 333/266MHz
RAM: 3x 184-pin DIMM support DDR400 MAX 1GB or DDR333/266 MAX 3GB
IDE: 2x UDMA 133 up to 4 Devices
Slots: 1x AGP 8X, 5x PCI, 1x CNR
Ports: 2xPS/2,1xCOM,1xLPT,1xLAN,6xUSB2.0(Rear 4),Audio Ports
Onboard Audio: C-Media CMI9738 4-Channel CODEC
Onboard LAN: RealTek RTL8201BL 10/100 Mbps PHY
Form Factor: ATX


I havent touched a game in months b/c my main computer is dead! My radeon 9700 is boxed up in the hallway and im using my geforce 3. Also im only using 512mb of ram (2 sticks) even though i got a 512 and 3 more 256's. I could be using 1gb but its not worth it with this cpu.. my duron 1300mhz. Yep my main rig is goine in my sig ;(

 

[o1die]

I've used sis chipset boards for p4's, but not amd cpus. I still like my ecs nforce2 board, even without overclocking settings in the bios. Nforce2 is still the best chipset for socket a, but that may change with the new sempron socket a cpus. I don't see your power supply listed. I recommend a quality brand such as antec, enermax, sparkle (fortron fsp), or thermaltake for your 9700, which requires alot of juice to run stable. A 350 watt quality power supply will be better than a generic 500 watt; many of those are overated for peak voltage.

 

[Twista]

NEVERMIND i canceled the order and got the "K7N2 Delta-L"


Supported CPU:AMD® Athlon(tm)/Athlon(tm) XP/Duron(tm) processors
Chipset:nVIDIA® nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset
FSB:200/266/333/400 MHz
RAM:3x DDR PC3200/2700/2100/1600 up to 3GB
IDEual Channel Ultra DMA133/100/66 max 4 Devices
Slots:1x AGP 1.5v 4X8X, 5x PCI 32-bit PCI and 1x ACR
Ports:2xPS2,1xCOM,1xLPT,1xLAN,4xUSB and Audio Ports
Onboard Audio:AC97 Interface supporting up to two concurrent codecs
Onboard LAN: Chipset integrated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet/Fast Ethernet

 

[Macro2]

we know

 

[Peter]

You would have gotten an ECS L7S7A, actually, w/o the (optional) RAID controller, and with the 746FX instead of the original 746. (Syntax loosely are part of the PC-Chips group of companies, just as ECS are.)

 

[nemesismk2]

I just went the other way and replaced my second (my first msi k7n2 delta-l had the common capacitor failure problem) msi k7n2 delta-l with a asrock k7s8xe+ (sis748).

I also have a asrock k7s8x (sis746fx) which has worked perfectly since early last year. The good thing about asrock is that they are quick to release official bios for new processors like the sempron and mobile athlon xp etc. I know the k7n2 delta-l also can use the sempron and mobile processors it's just nice to have "official" support for them!

 

[Peter]

ECS have released Sempron-enabled BIOSes for their entire current line of FSB333 mainboards as well.

Besides, they'll run anyway, with or without a BIOS that knows they're Semprons. They're just Thoroughbreds and Thortons, and we've had those for a while.

That said, I too have a SiS chipset under my desk - a plain 746 on an ECS L7S7A2. Couldn't say no to a $30 mainboard that included an internal USB 6-in-1 card reader ...