Best Motherboard for Athalon

This is a discussion about Best Motherboard for Athalon in the Windows Hardware category; Hey there. Ok let me start off by saying that I want stability above all other features. I have an abit Ka7-100 now, with a 750 Athalon, and its horrible. Only certain PCI slots will take cards without IRQ conflicts etc.

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Hey there.
 
Ok let me start off by saying that I want stability above all other features.
 
I have an abit Ka7-100 now, with a 750 Athalon, and its horrible. Only certain PCI slots will take cards without IRQ conflicts etc.
 
I dont want to put up with this crap for my next upgrade.
Im looking to get a midrange gigahertz Athalon chip, but I am uncertain as to which motherboard will give me the most stability.
 
Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Thanks.

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havent had a probelm with my asus board.
 
Asus A7M-266
 
its pretty stable, has the speed of the amd 760 chipset and has active chip cooling.
 
I was also looking at tyan boards, which are pretty good as well.

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I'd have to agree. Asus or Tyan boards kick arse, and Abit ain't too bad, but their Intel cpu boards are better than their AMD ones. If you want to overclock, you'll have to pass on Tyan though, but other than that, I'd pick Tyan first hand.
Also, take a look at MSI, as they've got some DDR+SDR boards so you can just upgrade to a new CPU and board and then get the DDR a little later. Asus also has some boards like this too.

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do not get an abit board for socket araid or not i agree with brian that abit did make a better board for intel but not for socket a

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Ok thanks guys,
 
Looks like i will check out Tyan. Sounds like that is my best alternative.
 
Adios.