Looking for advice on most stable Athlon DDR MB

[Guest]

Everyone,

I have recently had some bad luck with an ECS K7VTA3 motherboard which uses the VIA KT266 chipset. I would like to switch this motherboard to something which is going to be as stable as possible.

The preconditions are that I have 266MHz DDR memory, a Geforce 3, and a SB Live. All of which have problems on certain AMD motherboards. The processor is a 1.333 MHz Athlon which I don't intend on overclocking.

Does anyone have a recomended motherboard which seems to work properly with the hardware I have mentioned or as close as possible?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Crashman]

The Asus A7A266 with bios revision 1.004 is the most stable and cmpatable current board for your processor, it supports either DDR or SDR memory, using separate banks for each.

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[SERVO]

I normally would recommend the K7-Master but some people are having problems with the GF3. I'm not sure if other DDR MB's are having problems or could I say it's the MB itself that is causing the problems. It may be the drivers. Just make sure you check into this first.

 

[SERVO]

Seems the guys at www.msihardware.com have solved the GF3 problem with the K7-Master. There's a temp fix to stop lockups in 3D apps. MSI has been notified.

 

[Guest]

Well I don't know if this will help as the MB I am using is a microATX board. I have the Aopen MK7A. I am running a 1.33ghz 266fsb with a geforce2 gts and swlive 5.1 and 256mb PC2100 with no problems, lockups or anything. I think right now though its the only DDR board Aopen has.

Personally though I do think Asus makes good boards..as long as you get the latest BIOS.

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[mpjesse]

Any board based on the ALi Magik 1 chipset is also very stable- but they're not the quickest.

-MP Jesse

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