New Motherboard!
Im looking for a replacement to my broken ASUS A7V133A board, A new board must support 8 devices and Athlon XP 1700+, Prefer DDR also. I was looking at ASUS A7V266-E but fancy a change, maybe a board that supports dual Athlon XP's.
Im looking for a replacement to my broken ASUS A7V133A board, A new board must support 8 devices and Athlon XP 1700+, Prefer DDR also. I was looking at ASUS A7V266-E but fancy a change, maybe a board that supports dual Athlon XP's. Thanx guyz
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Go for the real thing; an Abit board(KG7 or KR7)
Dual CPU's don't give you much more than a ego boost unless you do a lot of some rather CPU intensive tasks with apps that support dual processors. Mostly that money is better spent on more RAM, beer and women.
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KG7 running very stable here with an Athlon 1400@1550 for 10 months now.
Dual CPU's don't give you much more than a ego boost unless you do a lot of some rather CPU intensive tasks with apps that support dual processors. Mostly that money is better spent on more RAM, beer and women.
H.
KG7 running very stable here with an Athlon 1400@1550 for 10 months now.
Since this is AMD's first venture into dual-processing, I would not recommend them here. The A7V266E is supposed to be pretty good, as well as the MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU. (KT266A).
Abit's alright, I've had mixed results with the KG7-RAID. One was bad and it's replacement had some improper BIOS settings that didn't allow the machine to even boot until I cleared CMOS. The nice thing about it is the HPT370 controller: it's not castrated like the on-board Promise controllers. You can use RAID if you want or you don't have to, all through the HPT370 BIOS. I believe the Asus has a jumper to disable the RAID function, while still allowing the use of the extra IDE controllers, but don't quote me.
Abit's alright, I've had mixed results with the KG7-RAID. One was bad and it's replacement had some improper BIOS settings that didn't allow the machine to even boot until I cleared CMOS. The nice thing about it is the HPT370 controller: it's not castrated like the on-board Promise controllers. You can use RAID if you want or you don't have to, all through the HPT370 BIOS. I believe the Asus has a jumper to disable the RAID function, while still allowing the use of the extra IDE controllers, but don't quote me.
Yes, your completely correct about the ASUS boards and the raid jumper.Im pritty sure that i will probably go with the Gigabyte GA-7DXR+ motherboard. Seems to have a lot of features and i have been very happy with Gigabyte products.
