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Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Gunthr on September 09, 2001, 09:55:00 PM: I'm looking for 1Gig+AMD cpu in a good o'clocking but stable board... what's a good mobo right now for this? Thanks...
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Staga on September 10, 2001, 06:05:00 AM: http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/index.html (http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/index.html)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Swager on September 10, 2001, 07:10:00 AM: give the Epox 8k7a a look
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: SunKing on September 10, 2001, 11:07:00 AM: yes the EPOX 8k7a is great. I just built myself a new system with that and a 1.3mhz 266FBS T-bird. The chip has the proper steppings to go up to 1.6mhz. Make sure you purchase quality memory... i.e. crucial. Along with a Radeon 64mb DDR v-card, Im averaging 80 fps in AH without tweaking the system yet. Its a whole new game when u can fly through smoke at 40 fps and not experience system lag.
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Maverick on September 10, 2001, 09:34:00 PM: Got a question fer ya!

I am going to get a new system, either I build it or it's built for me. I was looking for the ASUS A7M266. One of the places I asked for quotes said they use the EPoX 8KHA3. Is this a better board? Is it comparable and is the bios as stable as te ASUS stuff is for AMD tbirds?

Mav
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Staga on September 10, 2001, 10:22:00 PM: Maverick it looks like it is using Via KT266 chipset which is not as fast as AMD/Via combination used in A7M266 but my guess is only way to notice difference between them is via different benchmarks.
Looks fine to me.

Test in Tom's Hardware guide (http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010808/via_kt266-41.html#only_average_the_kt266_compared_with_the_competition)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Fishu on September 10, 2001, 11:11:00 PM: Sunking,

Hrmmm...
I do 72 FPS / 40 FPS in smoke with celeron 566@850mhz and Radeon 64.
You do need tweaking :D
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: funkedup on September 10, 2001, 11:54:00 PM: I have the Epox EP-8K7A and have had zero problems. Quality, performance, support are excellent.

I also built a system with a Epox EP-8KTA3 which works great. This is not a DDR board but it further enhances my high opinion of Epox products.
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Gunthr on September 12, 2001, 03:55:00 PM: I like what I'm reading about the Epox board.

Maverick, I read that the Epox 8KHA+ board with the new Via KT266a chipset is coming out in a week or so. It should outperform the KT266 chipset by a significant amount.

Thx all... :)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: AKDejaVu on September 12, 2001, 04:11:00 PM: The best Athlon/DDR MOBO.... IS A DEAD ATHLON MOBO!

Muahahahaha

AKDejaVu <- biased Intel employee
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: funkedup on September 12, 2001, 04:29:00 PM: No wonder your products are overpriced by 50%, you guys all post on UBB all day. :)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: AKDejaVu on September 12, 2001, 04:48:00 PM: At least we're not looking up "used dildo" prices on e-bay.

AKDejaVu
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: skernsk on September 12, 2001, 04:52:00 PM: LOL Deja!
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: funkedup on September 12, 2001, 05:02:00 PM: ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Maverick on September 12, 2001, 05:23:00 PM: Funked, he got your number!

Mav
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: SunKing on September 12, 2001, 05:34:00 PM: Fishu... is that with the highest res and 32 bit? Sounds like this card is true great if you get the same fps. Also I'm using the beta.exe so maybe my fps would be greater with the normal .exe. Oh well this radeon is a great card regardless. I'll tweak away soon.
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Staga on September 12, 2001, 05:41:00 PM: Yeah you're right DjV, That little TB went all red in Sandra benchmarks. Worthless piece of silicon :mad:
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/cpu_bench.gif)
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/multim_bench.gif)

:D

ps: Send me a new P4 2GHz with 512megs RAMBUS and I'll praise Intel again ;)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Staga on September 12, 2001, 05:44:00 PM: uups I think I got it: Bigger number is better huh ?
;)

Edit:
P4 performs better in memory benchmarks but I still think AMD is having better bang/bucks ratio :)

[ 09-12-2001: Message edited by: Staga ]
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: AKDejaVu on September 12, 2001, 07:39:00 PM: Umm... I don't get what you are saying Staga.

I also don't believe that you realize what I said above was a joke. ...except for the part about FunkedUp and Ebay.

AKDejaVu
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: funkedup on September 12, 2001, 08:05:00 PM: Yep it's true. I like them "broken in".
http://www.hitechcreations.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=003041 (http://www.hitechcreations.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=003041)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Staga on September 12, 2001, 08:33:00 PM: Just joking Djv :)

Uhm but you could still ask your boss to send a new P4 to the poor Finnish guy with plenty of RAMBUS in same package ;)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Pongo on September 12, 2001, 10:08:00 PM: Looks like its worth while to wait a month for a via 266a based motherboard. You can read about it at Toms.
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: Staga on September 13, 2001, 07:39:00 AM: btw Djv I did realize you were joking. There were also this :D and this ;) in my post.
;)
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: MrRiplEy on September 13, 2001, 07:55:00 AM: And there were :) :D ;) :cool: :rolleyes: :p :eek: in MY post! :mad:
Title: Best Athalon/DDR MOBO?
Post by: AKDejaVu on September 13, 2001, 10:43:00 AM: OK Staga...

I'll see if I can get you one of these:

3.5 GHz P-4 (http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1525&p=2)

...and with that... my obvious baised hijacking of an AMD thread is complete. :D

AKDejaVu