Need some suggestions!

[vic81]

I'm looking to by a new motherboard. I would like to know if anyone can give me some suggestions on a good one to purchase. I have a PCchips board now and I'm looking to upgrade for ~$250 or less. I would like to get a board with a fast bus. By the way does it really matter about the bus speed? I have a pc100 bus now (I think, at least that's the type RAM I use), can you get one with something higher then pc133 and what type/speed RAM would you use?

Thanks for any help!

Vic

[FrozenLiquidity]

We need some more info to help you.

List all of your current system specs and then list what you are looking for in a new motherboard.

Thanx

Yes you can get higher spped RAM than PC133, you can get DDR Memory that can support speeds of up to 266MHz. But that would be a bit out of your price range.

FrozenLiquidity

[vic81]

PIII 500 slot 1
288 Mg Ram PC100
Voodoo 5500 PCI
On board modem
5gb hard drive WD
NIC not sure what brand
on board sound card.

this a PC Chips board (648m, I think) and I really don't care much for it!!

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Vic

[Peter M]

If that board you have doesn't have integrated VGA, then you won't gain any noticeable speed by replacing it ... PC133 SDRAM doesn't bring that much over PC100.

Peter

[FrozenLiquidity]

Well, I would suggest the ASUS P3B-F motherboard.

It can run FSB speed of up to 150MHz but only offically supports up to 100MHz.

I am using this board on my Pentium III 700E and I find it prefferable to every other board I own. Take a look at it.
http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P3b-f/index.html

FrozenLiquidity

[This message has been edited by FrozenLiquidity (edited 01-25-2001).]