please recomend a mobo

[steve.p]

i am going to buy a 1.4Ghz 266fsb AMD cpu.
A gigabyte mobo GA-7ZXR(3.0).the mobo is £140
can anyone recomend other boards and where to get them or where i can possibly get the
gigabyte Revision 3 board above for a better price. THANKS

[newbie~wan]

You're quoting in pounds so I assume ur in the UK. Hmmmm...............

I dont know if you can get it yet in UK, as that it is very new, but the ECS K7S5A is only $65 in US (what is that like 85 pounds?)
so atleast its cheap.

If you're really into overclocking, don't get this board though.

[BobyJo]

If you do the research, you will find that ECS had a reputation of being a "cheap" product. This comes from this company taking too many short cuts to make the product sell for less than anyone else. As for me, I would not recommend this product, not until they have proven to be a better product developer than they have been.

As far as any recommendations for you, I will like to say the Epox line of newer mobo's are excellent choices. The 8K7A, $125.00 has the AMD761 chipset, (top dog at this time) the 8KHA KT266 (new version) is a great quality product. Both these mobo's are extremely easy to setup. Performance is outstanding, OC'ing ability is also outstanding. (the best in the industry) for now. I do not believe you will go wrong with either of these mobo's. These mobo's will cost you $125.00 and $100.00, either are great buys.

[elroy]

I keep reading posts about the ECS K7S5A and everyone is having problems getting a 1.4 T-bird to run on them. I have an Epox board and am very happy with it.

[This message has been edited by elroy (edited 08-26-2001).]

[electronfrost]

i'll back that up...my 8k7a has worked marvelously...my 1.2GHz is very happy at 1.466GHz (133x11)

super easy to overclock...came with norton AV and ghost...a plus if ya ask me...

i got the board, cpu, and hs/f for $250 shipped
(Epox EP-8K7A, Thunderbird 1.2GHz-266fsb, thermaltake volcanoII)

[NDC]

I keep reading posts about the ECS K7S5A and everyone is having problems getting a 1.4 T-bird to run on them.

It also appears that either they don't like to reply to technical support e-mails or they're just too busy...

ECS Tech Support (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum5/HTML/007337.html)

[butthook]

You guys are knockin the ecs board to much its a great board for the price. Mine is fast as hell, and stable, but you wont hear much of that on a tech forum now will you ?LOL.

[NDC]

Actually, I built a dual P3 800Mhz on an ECS D6VAA for my brother-in-law and it's running flawlessly. I haven't had the need to e-mail tech support, yet! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif