Which motherboard for AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz?

[Joels]

I am about to purchase an AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz/266Mhz processor, but I'm not sure which motherboard to buy. I'm deciding between the ASUS A7V133 and the A7M266.

The A7M266 is a bit more expensive and uses DDR RAM only while the A7V133 uses SDRAM. I think the bus is faster on the A7M266.

Is it worthwhile to go for the A7M266 with the more expensive DDR or will I not see much of a difference with the A7V133? This PC needs to be very fast for heavy graphics programs. I'm including an ASUS 7700, 32MB graphics cards.

Is DDR really worth it? Will I notice a difference? It will cost a bit more. I intend to use this PC for heavy graphics programs. I know todays programs don't utilize the full advantage of DDR but this will surely change with the newer programs (as it always does).

I'm really confused which one to go for.

What do you think?

 

[UglyCasanova]

DDR is roughly the exact same price as SDRAM. Try looking at Crucial. If you get a DDR board, I've heard nothing but good things about the Epox one. Most other DDR mobos' chipsets suck.

 

[Spoon]

I thing that I've read about the Epox is the insane overclocking, some being able to run the board at 166fsb perfectly stable

 

[Noriaki]

I'd go for the DDR platfrom (well I did )
More future proof, and a little bit extra performance without costing much more. A 256MB PC2100 from Crucial is less than $60 and mine both do 2-2-2 nicely at DDR266

 

[Mophare]

You might want to consider the kg7 from abit, the kt7 w/1ghz thunderbird my coworker is using works great w/w2k, just a thought, let us know how it works.

 

[InfectedVoice]

Im in the same boat as you, but I am going SDR. Its a little cheaper here in Canada (I cant order online, no CC) so Im going with the Asus A7V133 (KT133A chipset). If youre going SDR, get this board.....it rocks.

As for DDR, the only board you should look at is the Epox 8K7A. ALi chipset is still rather premature, and the AMD760 is the best DDR solution out there.

Either way, enjoy youre Tbird !!

 

[NelsonMuntz]

If you do go to DDR you probably won't notice much improvement over a SDR solution unless you get a board with the AMD chipset on it. The Epox 8K7A that was mentioned by dparker and Spoon is a good one at a good price. Good luck in whatever you decide.

 

[inqztive]

both A7V133 and kk-266 are very good board. i personally assembled a kk266 one and so happy with the performance that I am going to build another one for a friend. Both DDR and SDR has same FSB. just that the DDR has more memory bandwith because of DDR memory bus.

 

[Dan]

I decided to stick with SDR for my upgrade, primarily because I have 768MB of the stuff. With that in mind, I chose an EPoX 8KTA3/+ mobo for my 1.33GHz T-Bird.