• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

What MB to Buy???

R

robcy

Senior member
Okay it is seriously time for a MB upgrade (from a K7S5A), even if I hate to see old faithful go. I am not interested in a VIA400/600, or a SIS746. This leaves me with only the NForce2 to choose. I know absolutely nothing about NF2 boards. I have 100 dollars, and will have to stay below that, Period (cuz, my wife said so). I do not need Raid or double lan, or 5.1 sound since I already have all those PCI cards. What to choose EPox, Abit, Asus, Leadtek, Soyo, to many choices, and not a single clue. I do want to overclock (fsb, and multipliers).

Right now my 2600+ does 2400mhz (150X16) on a crappy board with cheap memory at stock vcore (1.65). I think the odds are it will do 166X14.5 (2416mhz) on an NF2. I have two sticks of Hyper X 2700 CAS2 DDR that the K7S5A will not recognize.

Help me choices.
 
Check the Motherboards forum for other people who have asked this -- some good answers. Also the "critque my rig" and "building new system" threads here.
 
This one seems pretty easy to me. Under $100. Epox 8RDA+. It normally goes for about $85. Actually, just checking newegg it is $82. It has sound, lan, usb2.0, firwire...and so on. As for overclocking. I can comment on that from first hand experience. I have an 8RDA which is like the + without the goodies. So far it has been great. The AGP and PCI bus speeds are fixed so you can crank up the fsb without risk to your addin cards. It allows you to set the RAM speeds at percentages of the fsb. Which is nice for me right now since I am overclocking my chip, but my DDR266 doesnt like to go past about 145Mhz, but my chip will do past that. For instance, right now my XP1700+ (tbredB) is running at 12.5x180 but the ram is running at 80% of the 180Mhz, so it is stable. I have gotten the chip up to 12.5x185, so the board is a very good overclocker. It gives you tons of CPU voltage options as well as lots of multiplier options too. The only thing I dont like is the limited Vdimm options. Only 3 options: 2.77, 2.85, or 2.9. But this hasnt proven to be too much trouble. So if you dont wanna spend too much, you cant go wrong w/ this one.
-doug
 
EPOX 8RDA+. Newegg sells the new revision that supports 400 MHz FSB. I have one with 2x 256mb HyperX ram and couldn't be happier.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top