What MB to Buy???

robcy

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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 with choices.
 

Vette73

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Originally posted by: soni
Epox 8RDA+ - Should be around 85$ on newegg...


Good choice if you don't need the extra IDE/SATA ports. If you do want/need then look at the Abit NF7-S.