Motherboard

[saintj]

Hi , I am thinking of upgrading to a Amd 2000 Cpu. What do you suggest would be a good motherboard to use. Thanks

[bassman]

One of these, that won't be too expensive. All support DDR333 & ATA133:

ASUS A7V333
MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU
EPoX 8K3A+

IUf you're willing to spend some more money...go for VIA KT400 ;)

[BipolarBill]

It's probably a good idea to plan for the future with this purchase. The latest AMD Athlon is the 2800+ 166MHz version. Whatever you get, be sure that it supports this CPU.

[LostBok]

Not sure about CPU support, but I've got an ASUS A7V333 and it is a very nice board: running with a 1900+ & 512Mb PC2700 @333Mhz for weeks at a time without rebooting.

All th eIDE is UDMA 133, 4 std devices and 4 on the RAID. The onboard Promise RAID is the "lite" version, so it's farily quick, but not quite the same as the TX2000 that I have on another machine.

Not tried the onboard firewire or USB2, but thought they'd both be useful features to have :)

Recently acquired the digital daughterboard for the onboard sound - SPDIF and optical... in AND out for both!

I've had one minor problem with the primary master channel defaulting to PIO in win2000, but think that's a problem that only I have experienced.

There's lot's of funky add-ons in terms of ASUS temperature and O/C monitoring panels plus a multi-IO card reader and such that I haven't even looked at yet.

All in all a very well featured and incredibly stable board.

regards,
LostBok

[saintj]

Thanks for the replies guys. I was wondering if the ECS K7S5A is a good board. I've heard it talked about so much, however, how much processor can it handle ? Thanks.

[BipolarBill]

It can handle up to an XP 2400+. It cannot use PC2700 RAM though. For a few bucks more, get an MSI KT3 Ultra2 - it will do it all for you:

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=&submit=Go&description=N82E16813130354