looking for the best socket 7 m/board to go with an AMD 550 mhz cpu

[ghalied]

Hi, everyone, I need some help, I intend buying the amd 550 mhz cpu, what is the best motherboard that goes with this cpu, and a good graphics card and what should I add to get the best out of this processor, I've bought a 128 pc 100 ram too. I would like to get the best out of the system as possible.

Thanks
Bye
PS. AND THE CASE/TOWER, WHICH ONE.

[Win_98]

DFI K6BV3/dma66 AT or
DFI K6Xv3/dma66 ATX
Case? ATX Mid tower
Wider and yet easier on you
has sliding panel left hand side and right hand side, this make it easier if you have to
install harddrive or remove any component.
these are next best to Jumperless design
It doesn't have over 100mhz bus like Asus
do like 112,124,133
maybe the ASUS will suit you better if you don't mind fiddling with jumper pulling them out and resticking them in constantly to see
which speed, multiplier is most stable.
ASUS have only 512K cache on board
No DMA/66 support
Aladdin chipset, no ideas but I do find it slower thought.
DFI have 1meg/and 2meg available too
at only an extra 10 buck
I haven't heard any complain from anyone except that you can't monitor the cpu temperature on one of their model and it is
K6BV3 rev. B AT motherboard
Im not saying it is the best, but it next best thing to jumperless.
I go for ABIT if they had made any super 7 MB
but it sad to see that they have taken on Intel side for the past few years.

[wyvrn]

For quality, most people go with the Enlight cases. Fong Kai also makes some nice tower setups. I believe there was a cheaper full tower for about 25 bucks in the Pc Steals and Deals forum a while back if you want to go check.

For motherboards, I do not know of a specific model off of the top of my head, but some manufactures you might look for are Asus, Abit, Tyan, and Soyo. Gigabyte would be my fifth choice. Look around www.pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) for some good deals, but be wary of high shipping costs. This is one way companies get listed first, but will come back to bite you when you order.

[This message has been edited by wyvrn (edited 07-13-2000).]

[Win_98]

The way they do business is not right.
sort of cheating thought
could be 1 dollar case with 50 buck shipping
6 dollar floppy 1.44 drive with 12 shipping man I could get that for 12 buck locally with
taxes, only a dollar more.
I hope they go out of business cause no one is saving anything from buying them
let say a 20 buck case with 25 shipping that
45 total cost you could get it around for
25 buck, therefore making it the last thing on your list.

I've order 128meg dimm for 63 buck
with 10 buck shipping it took 2 week
I saw it in transit in 3 day while tracking it and it just sit there until they feel like shipping it on the date they promise.
Kind of pathetic thought because I am upset
about it and will never ever buy from them again.
This was before the crisis of taiwan being struck with volcanic activities then everything rise back up like now.

[scotter]

for the best SS7 board I sugjest you go over here to toms hardware and read this http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/98q3/980731/index.html

this is a little dated as there are a few newer boards out but for the most part what he says still holds true the only thing new is the ata/66 on a few of the newer boards
witch is almost a none issue if you read all the info on ata/66
as far as the amount of cache thats debateable to as some of the 512k boards out perform the ones with 1 and 2 meg

base your buying and how easy it is to set up and how stable it is http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif not on if it's got some cool new stuff you will be more happy in the end http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

also look in the user revues here at sysopt and see what has been posted by real users

of all the boards out there my personal fav is the Asus P5A
hope this helps ya

[Mike Montoya]

I have a Giga-byte 5AX rev5.2 and it works great with my AMD k6-2 550. But i wish i had a jumperless one i find it cumbersome switching jumpers around. Giga-byte is coming out with new motherboards with Overclocking software make sure if you buy one grab one of these. Also make sure the motherboards supports AGP 4x. I have 2x and i cannot use my 4x AGP video card efficiently. For a video card GeForce2 DDS is still the best out in the market according to PC accelerator. Memory try Crucial PC 100 or PC 133 w/ CAS2 or a Mushkin Mosel PC 133 CAS2 what ever happens get a CAS2 it runs faster. Hope this will help.

[socalgal]

Moved to Motherboards forum.