ATA-133 and USB 2.0

[ItsHuge]

Why haven't many manufacturers mad a board with both of these new technologies, it's holding me back from my planned upgrade, from what I've seen the only AMD board with both of these features is a gigabyte.

[Antix]

MSI also puts these features into their boards.
Check it out at either:
http://www.msi.com.tw
http://www.msicomputer.com

Check this board out:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/KT3Ultra_aru.htm

[ItsHuge]

thank you , I used a MSI board in my previous p.c. and was very pleased, only thing that I dislike on this one is the DDR only ram.

[Antix]

Well SDRAM was only made for use on 266MHz FSB boards with ATA-100, I never saw one that had ATA-133 with SDRAM, due to lack of SDRAM support that seems to be apparent with the manufacturers.

It could be the fact that SDRAM may be a performance issue with the ATA-133 speeds, something that could be countermeasured with DDR.

The upgrading never stops!

[ItsHuge]

I'm starting to think geting a cutting edge package as I was considering may not be cost effective, maybe I'll settle for a nice mobo and a athlon 1.4 , I'm running my ata-133 drive on a highpoint card on my athlon 800 and its extremely fast. So why not buy a not so highend combo and move the controller over with it right.

[Antix]

True, you can get the ECS K7S5A board for dirt cheap, put an Athlon into and run SDRAM or DDR RAM.

That board usually goes for $55-$80 and it is well worth it for the performance that it provides.

Here is the link to the board:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/k7s5a.htm

Here is Tom's review on the board:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010924/