whats a good KT333 motherboard with no onboard parts and no raid?

[BBY125]

I'm basically looking for something that i wont have to overclock to get the best performance. I have never OC'd anything before and I don't need to or plan to later on. I don't have any use for raid now or later on in the future either, and I hate have dealing with onboard components. any suggestions? I know someone started another thread similar to this one, but they wanted one with raid...so this sorta isnt a double post (so please dont flame me, if you dont have anything helpful to say just dont say anything)

 

[Operandi]

The ABIT KX7-333 sounds like the perfect candidate to me. A very fast/stable KT333 MB with nothing but the essentials. Here is a review of the Abit KX7-333R, "R" being raid but the KX7-333 is identical in all other respects.

 

[tenoc]

The MSI KT3-Ultra is a little less money than the Abit.

If you don't like the 6-channel sound or LAN that comes with it, thereby saving the cost and hassle of dealing with two PCI cards, disable them in the BIOS.

 

[cr4pz0r]

Unfortunately, bby125, most of the latest AMD-compatible motherboards have all this onboard audio crap on them - and some even have onboard LAN and RAID built onto them. And a few such motherboards have those onboard features permanently enabled, with no way whatsoever of disabling them (there are no enable/disable settings in the BIOS, and there are no jumpers that do such things).

The ABIT mentioned in this thread is the only one that I know of that has no onboard audio and no onboard LAN (but offers an optional RAID controller).

 

[BBY125]

thanks a lot of the info guys, sounds like abit is probably the better way to go.

 

[LastStop]

Just setup my KX7-333R and it works great. Very stable but have yet to overclock it. It's basically the same as the KX7-333 but with raid.

 

[hitchhiker]

You might want to check out the Soltek 75DRV5. If I recall the only on board part it has is sound.

 

[Budarow]

Thanks for the tip. I'll be looking into the Abit kx7-333.