Which DDR motherboard should I buy? ALSO: ANY DDR MOTHERBOARDS WITH ISA SLOTS?

[Bellweather]

Requirements:

Must be 800 Mhz athlon compatible.
Must be DDR memory.
Must have 1 ISA slot.
Must have 5+ PCI slots.
Must be less than $160

Any suggestions? Thanks much.

 

[SpeedTrap]

get rid of the crappy isa and get a real mans mainboard teh 8k7a

 

[Hender]

ISA slot? Whatever for? I don't think I ever know of any DDR boards that have an ISA slot, but in my search I may have just tuned them all out because I haven't had an ISA device in years.

All the others are pretty standard. Most boards have 5 PCI slots, but some have 6. The Shuttle board I just bought has 6 PCI and 1 CNR in addition to the AGP slot, of course.

Skip ISA if you at all can. Is it something you can replace with a USB or PCI device that you can add in your upgrade cost? If it's a modem, external USB modems are pretty cheap, and PCI modems are much better than their ISA Winmodem couterparts.

 

[Bellweather]

I know the 8k7a is good. I built a system with it already. I would prefer to have an ISA slot for my modem however.

 

[Noriaki]

Not much luck I don't think....

No major brands have them that's for sure.

You might try smaller brands...search on pricewatch or something....

 

[Tbirdan]

I don't think anybody makes a DDR mobo with an ISA slot. Soory, Bellweather. Your best bet is to sell the modem and buy a PCI or USB modem as others have suggested. ISA is in the retirement home where it belongs.

 

[Hender]

By having an ISA device in your system, you'll actually be losing performance. An all-PCI system will be better-off. Any external modem will give you better performance and a faster system, whether's serial or USB. The MultiTech USB modem I have doesn't require a power cord, so that helps with the cord tangle behind my machine.

 

[Noriaki]

<< By having an ISA device in your system, you'll actually be losing performance. An all-PCI system will be better-off. Any external modem will give you better performance and a faster system, whether's serial or USB. The MultiTech USB modem I have doesn't require a power cord, so that helps with the cord tangle behind my machine. >>



Your PS/2 Mouse and Keybaord ports, your Serial Ports, and Parallel Port are all ISA devices.

Unless you disable all of those you can't get any benefit from ditching the ISA delays.

 

[Hender]

<< Your PS/2 Mouse and Keybaord ports, your Serial Ports, and Parallel Port are all ISA devices.

Unless you disable all of those you can't get any benefit from ditching the ISA delays. >>



Hence why I use USB everything and have all those disabled in BIOS.

 

[Bellweather]

How about the IWILL KA266? Any thoughts on this?

 

[Noriaki]

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<< Your PS/2 Mouse and Keybaord ports, your Serial Ports, and Parallel Port are all ISA devices.

Unless you disable all of those you can't get any benefit from ditching the ISA delays. >>



Hence why I use USB everything and have all those disabled in BIOS. >>

LOL yeah I assumed that. I wasn't meaning to question you, I just meant to clarify that if you use any of those you can't have an all-pci system for the benefit of the others

 

[LXi]

BioStar's M7MIA has an ISA slot.

 

[Bellweather]

Thanks LXi.

 

[Zach]

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<< By having an ISA device in your system, you'll actually be losing performance. An all-PCI system will be better-off. Any external modem will give you better performance and a faster system, whether's serial or USB. The MultiTech USB modem I have doesn't require a power cord, so that helps with the cord tangle behind my machine. >>



Your PS/2 Mouse and Keybaord ports, your Serial Ports, and Parallel Port are all ISA devices.

Unless you disable all of those you can't get any benefit from ditching the ISA delays. >>



Incorrect, modern I/O chips are PCI based. Just like you can find serial/paralell port cards for PCI slots now. Especially true if these functions are in the south bridge of a chipset.

 

[papadoum]

As far as I can tell, the best system of all if a review I read is correct is the SIS735, this MB will run both SDRAM and DDRAM, and has a 10%increase in performance over KT chipsets, because it combines the North and South bridge together. And you can just forget ISA, whatever it is, it must be that cheap to be able to replace it with PCI as it's obvioulsy not performance orientated. And do you mean $150USD? Because I can't help you there, I'm in Aust.:Q