What is a good MOBO for Athlon XP?

[kkd]

I had a Leadtek nForce2 motherboard that has gone dead (due to the well known capacitor problem). I've searched all Newegg to see if I can find another nForce2 MOBO but couldn't find any. Can anyone suggest a good motherboard for Athlon XP? Even better if you can suggest one from this list:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...cket+A&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

Thanks.

 

[cubeless]

8rda rocks... always had good luck and good oc's on my mobiles with them... probably worth the extra couple bux to get the last drop out of the xp...

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Right now, the upper two tiers of MB makers have for the most part dropped Socket A from their production lines. Epox still has too many of the faulty capacitors mixed into their bins of Socket A MB parts, and still makes Socket A boards that still die from leaking caps. I had two 8RDA's and liked them, but got both second hand, and couldn't RMA them when the caps failed.

I think Biostar still makes some of their boards for XP's, mostly with Via chipsets, and all with fewer deluxe features (Biostar isn't a "Deluxe, high dollar" buider), but their stuff is solid and dependable. I believe they do still sell an NF2 Chipset, the Ferrari of Socket A Chipsets. You just have to do a search. You don't want ECS, FIC, or PC Chips, although all of those bottom tier companies probably sell MB's to use for XP's, you don't want their products.


:frown:

 

[Neyd3400]

What Cpu do you currently have.

B/C if I had to a replace a socket A motherboard, I would just go ahead and upgrade. You can get a sempron 3100 and ecs board for $90 at outpost and If you ebayed your current CPU it would be even cheaper. In games and benchies the sempron is better than any standard athlon socket A cpu. There may be some exceptions that I don't know about however.

Sempron 3100 & Ecs combo

I just tossed a Epox 8rda one of the capacitors fried itself. It was a good board for 2-3 years. I had problems enable the USB 2.0 that I would not reccomend it. It was a good overlcocker despite the pitifull heatsink on the Nforce chip. IMO

Tomshadware Cpu benchies

 

[StrangerGuy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138234

Biostar nforce2 IGP board FTW.

 

[SnoMunke]

I have Socket A mb to sell if you are interested....I think it is this one...

MSI

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Here is the Biostar (NF2) MB, at the best price Price Grabber could find:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=246410

Biostar M7NCG 400 nForce2

Like I said before, if you are dealing with one MB at a time, avoid ECS.

On the other hand, if you are ready to upgrade anyway, go all the way to s939, skipping right past s754 (it's more of a dead end than s939, which is also coming to an end, but farther on down the line). Epox still makes and sells their 939 board for AGP, and apparently the caps come out of different parts bins. None of the NF3 boards has died from a leaked or swollen capacitor.

Also:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...item-details.asp?EdpNo=1739999&CatId=0

That's the popular MSI NF4 MB with A64/ 3200


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[kkd]

Thanks to all of you who responded. I think maybe I'll go with the Semprom 3100 & ECS combo, or some other combo deal since this system is really an older system that died. I already bought a replacement some months ago (Socket 939 & 3800x2), but I figure I'd try to recover this system to use at my workplace. I guess the cap blowing issue still exist for some socket A boards so I'll just skip it altogether.