which motherboard do you recommend

[SirWrecK]

which mobo do you guys recommend for the amd tbird 1.3ghz 266fsb?
Thanks

 

[BuddyHolly]

Duck, cause you are about to get hit with every board under the sun. Best idea is to read as much as you can on them. Are you looking for max overclocking or just stability? These things can both be had in the same board, unlike in the past. DDR or PC133 memory? Raid or non raid? built in sound or not? decisions, decisions..
Ok, my vote goes for the Iwill KK266 'cause that is what I have and it overclocks well and is so stable that I has yet to lock up after 3 weeks or my crazy setups and overclocking.

But...the Abit is a great board. The MSI is also good. Lots of good stuff..not a big fan of the DDR boards yet. Not worth it to me..needs to be a little more mature..
Good hunting..

 

[TerryMathews]

Well, I'm going to disagree with what is most likely half of AnandTech, and vote for the Asus A7V133 without audio. I've got a 1.04 board with the 1004.02d beta BIOS, and I added the real Promise RAID BIOS, not the cheap one that comes with the board.

I took a stock Duron 750 box and got it up to 1GHZ on the 133 bus using a piece of 128 PC133 Micron running at CL2-2-2. Everything is set to max speed, and I'm running at 1.85V.

Great board, good benchmarks. Still uses SDRAM, so its cheap. Nearly paces most DDR boards. Lot easier on the wallet.

 

[aznmoshboy]

I recommend the Iwill KK266