What is the best chipset and motherboard for Athlon XP?

[danizoe]

I plan to buy Athlon XP 2200+ but I have no idea about motherboard. What is the best chipset and motherboard for Athlon? Consider the upgrade for future Athlon. Thnx!

 

[Schadenfroh]

chipset: nforce2
Mobo: asus a7n8x deluxe

 

[yodayoda]

Chipset: nForce2
Motherboard: Abit NF7-S v2.0

and why are you buying a 2200+? do you like throwing money away? get a 1700+ from newegg for $42 and OC it up to 2.3 GHz--you can with an Abit board but maybe not with an Asus =)

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Buy an nForce2 (either of the above is good) and a Barton 2500.

- M4H

 

[screw3d]

Don't forget Epox 8RDA+. Pretty cheap at Newegg. The only downside is that it does not allow you to change the Vdd within the BIOS.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Welcome to the Anandtech forums 🙂 Throw the SL-75FRN2-RL in the mix too, RAID, Ultra400 A1/C1 chipset, all the overclocking tweaks including vdd adjustment via bios and a cool gold PCB that looks great with window mods.

 

[danizoe]

What do you think of MSI K7N2 Delta? In tomshardware.com it really shine. It seem beat all motherboards!

 

[screw3d]

Of all the 4 choices you HAVE to choose the MSI? 😉 I'm surprised to hear you say that MSI beats all the other boards? Don't believe everything you read on the web, especially if the website is www.tomsha.... 😛

If you plan to overclock, MSI is an awful choice. Take any of the above four, but definitely not the MSI.

I think I mentioned not to take the MSI. Did I? 😀

 

[FluxCap]

I was wondering, on the 8RDA+ is the vdd issue considered a problem? What is the workaround? Pencil trick?

 

[merlion]

First choice would be the Soltek SL-75FRN2-Rl as DAPUNISHER has pointed out for only $95 shipped from Newegg.

Second choice would be the Abit NF7-S which adds Firewire and the Sounstorm audio.