What mobo? AOpen or Abit??

[Rotax]

I'm thinking about getting a T-Bird (upgrading from a Slot K7 500 @ 700). I just read Anand's article on the KT133A and sounds like a nice chipset. What I'm thinking is getting a 1G T-Bird and putting it on the Abit or AOpen (since the multiplyer and FSB can be set in BIOS). I haven't been keeping up w/ hardware much lately so I'm not sure what way to go? Would this be the best solution for OCing? Or should I look into a diff board? BTW, I don't wanna buy diff. memory at this time. Got 2 mushkin 128mbs that are rated to run at 133mhz so should be ok there. If anyone could give me some suggestions that be cool. Thanks.

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Sorry, wrong forum, moved to Mobos.

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[Fattz]

I have been using Abit for two processors now. One was a pentium III and currently a 900 tbird. Never has it failed me. Its easy to configure, works 100% of the time (for me anyways) and was easy as hell to over clock. No clue on the other Motherboard as to how it compares, but I am satisfied with Abit 100%

The soft menu rocks !

 

[Fisher999]

This article here at Anandtech.com might be of assistance to you. On page 4 you will see that the Asus Av133, Abit Kt7a-raid and Aopen AK-73 ProA are ALL mentioned as good AMD T-Bird/Duron Socket A overclocking boards for the least amount of effort.

I've always been a big fan of AOpen boards. They aren't always the very fastest but they TEND (I emphasize TEND, as no motherboard supplier is 100% consistent) to be VERY STABLE boards, and very high quality as evidenced by their review winning articles all over the web including some past editor's choice awards here at Anandtech.com (the AOpen AX6bc Pro Gold for example).

Many of the users of THIS forum, however, will probably steer you in the direction of the Abit or the Asus. Abit appeals to the overclockers and caters to them but their mobo INSTABILITY problems are well known. Asus, on the other hand, will also have many allies here as they produce boards with decent overclocking potential AND (usually) very high RELIABILITY/STABILITY.

 

[Renob]

I have built over 30 Abit systems and NEVER had a mobo problem, all these systems were on the KT7 board.

 

[Motero]

I'd choose Abit.