What's the best AMD based motherboard?

[WhoDeeny]

I'd like to hear your opinions as I'm about at my wits end with my ECS KS75A and may soon be looking for a replacement...

 

[Horsepower]

I prefer Epox whenever I'm using an AMD processor.

 

[sohcrates]

<< I prefer Epox whenever I'm using an AMD processor. >>



Yeah, for the new XP's, the Epox 8kha+ is a very good board...if you look around anandtech, you can find the review of it, which was very positive

 

[WhoDeeny]

How about just a DDR board for the t-bird (1.4G)?

 

[JackBurton]

I LOVE my Abit KG7! This thing is ROCK SOLID and performs great.

 

[Moonbeam]

The Abit KR7A looks interesting as the Nforce looks more poofy.

 

[AMDPwred]

I love my Shuttle board. Very solid and a great price

 

[GTaudiophile]

FYI, according to Anand, Epox is coming out with another KT266A mobo, but he questions stability:

EPoX will also be releasing a new version of their KT266A motherboard called the EP-8KHA2. It has an added RAID controller and also a total of four DIMM slots instead of the three on the EP-8KHA+. We have yet to determine whether the board is stable with all slots populated, and whether there is a performance penalty seen in order to accommodate all four slots.

Here's a PIC of the board.

 

[sohcrates]

<< How about just a DDR board for the t-bird (1.4G)? >>



i've always felt the best DDR board for tbirds is the epox 8k7a...REALLY stable board

 

[formulav8]

<< FYI, according to Anand, Epox is coming out with another KT266A mobo, but he questions stability:

EPoX will also be releasing a new version of their KT266A motherboard called the EP-8KHA2. It has an added RAID controller and also a total of four DIMM slots instead of the three on the EP-8KHA+. We have yet to determine whether the board is stable with all slots populated, and whether there is a performance penalty seen in order to accommodate all four slots.

Here's a PIC of the board. >>




The only reason he question stability is because of Epox using 4 dimms and the memory timings need to be pretty much perfect.

 

[CraigRT]

by AMD based do you mean AMD chipset based? because that's what you are basically asking for.. if it's just AMD processor based system boards, then you have a TON of choices..

Even though I am not an Abit fan, it's hard to diss the Abit KG7 board... It looks like the best AMD based DDR board, if not the EpOX 8K7A.