AMD Motherboard

[lucidity23]

I am just looking for some added input. A Friend suggested I go with the Gigabyte 761 series motherboard. I plan on running a Duron and then upgrading to an Athlon later on.

Would anyone suggest a different motherboard.

Thanks! - carpe diem -

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Many of my colleagues run the ABIT KT7 family of motherboards. There are many review sites, including

http://www.tomshardware.com

which proclaim these boards as being the best AMD boards on the market.

There are, to my knowledge, 4 flavours. The KT7, KT7A and RAID versions of each. The KT7 has a 200MHz FSB and the KT7A has a 266MHz FSB. I believe the RAID on both is ATA100.

Also look at ASUS offerings.

I hope this helps.

 

[lucidity23]

I had saw the KT7 as well...I am thinking I may get that one....but I am just checking...

Thanks for the input - carpe diem -

 

[Comtech]

Abit KT7 = Overclockers friend :-D
Asus A7V= Athlon crasher.
Don't ask me why, but the Asus A7V will run rings around a comparable Intel system with the Duron chip, but will completely screw with an Athlon. Cheers,
Jim
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[CitrixEngineer]

Also, if you're going for a Duron, try to get an 850Mhz chip. These can be safely overclocked to 1Ghz + (and are way cheaper than T'birds!). I've seen benchmarks where an 805Mhz Duron, clocked to 1.1 Ghz will outperform a 1Ghz Tbird in most areas.

HTH

 

[lucidity23]

Coolness....I will keep this info in mind...
guess I will be getting the KT7 with an 850 Duron - carpe diem -

 

[htin11]

hi


maybe go with the Asus a7m266 since you are going for the AMD760 chipset. The Gigabyte 761 series motherboard have problems, i heard...but no thte asus one, it's a great overclocker, i heard people running it at 158 FSB....i have the motherboard it's a very good motherboard. since in the bios you can increase the FSB by 1. But the bad point is that there is no mulpiter changer yet on the motherboard, maybe a bios update later on..

hui

 

[shailoche]

If you are looking for an overcloker friendly MB and don't want to spend a whole lot of money, go with either the abit KT7 or even better still the KT7A. The KT7A fully supports the 133mhz FSB and that means more memory bandwith...SPEED. If you have multiple large HDD's that are the same then opt for the KT7A-RAID...and stripe the HDD's for added HDD performance....either way you cannot go wrong with ABIT

 

[brendanhedges]

Why not check out the Epox 8kta3+ mobo.
it's been getting some great reveiws recently on all the mobo sites.
Many say it is better than its closest rivials (asus & abit)it is also very stable.

http://www.epox.com

http://www.overclockers.com

I have this mobo and a 1 gig athlon and it is a brilliant combination.

Another good point is that it is cheaper than equivant asus & abit mobo's.