A7M-266 or MSI's K7-Master S

[forgettythatty]

ASUStek A7M-266 DDR Athlon Thunderbird & Duron MB with Toggle 3D Audio
or the
MSI's K7-Master S (MS-6341) from Tom's powerbox, or should I wait for and Nforce or Sis motherboard chipset?

I'm just trying to figure out the best motherboard, but I don't know a whole lot. I go to this site, voodoopc.com, and falcon-nw.com, and see what they offer to find out what is good. Is the powerbox outdated?

 

[Booky]

K7 Master REV 1.1, or the MSI K7T266 Pro-RU. These are the top boards with the two different chipsets. I guess you can look at boards with Ali chipset, but im not too familiar with that chipset.

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.

 

[Sihs]

Wait for the nforce if you can.

If you want to overclock, then k7 master is your thing. If not, Asus boards are usually better than MSI's.

Sh!t Happens.

 

[dan_gao86]

after reading so many posts in this forum, i realised that most experts here recommend mobos with either the Ali Magik 1 Chipset or the AMD 760...
however, most will recommend Ali Magik 1 chipset mobos due to the Via southbridge in AMD 760...

but still, according to Tom's review on Ali Magik 1 mobos <A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010509/index.html" target="_new">http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010509/index.html</A>, he wrote the following:

In this test it was quite clear: In making the boards, the manufacturers had two variations to choose from: either stable and weak performance, or high performance combined with unstable operation. We saw this in the test with various BIOS versions, which caused up to a 10 percent difference in overall performance. This is the ALi Magik 1 at a not yet fully mature stage. Often several test candidates crashed during the determination of test results.

thus, i was wondering whether should i get an Ali Magik 1 board, such as the Asus AZA266, or the AMD760 mobo such as the Msi k7 master??
btw, i'll be overclocking the tbird...




I WoNdEr HoW, I WoNdEr WhY, I WoNdEr WhErE ThEy ArE, ThE AMD... We OvErCloCked ToGeThEr, Oh YeAh...

 

[Guest]

Don't pay too much attention to the Via southbridge thing. It isn't really a problem anymore. I'd recommend the K7 Master, I have one and it's a fabulous board, not one lockup or problem yet (and I also have an SB Live! installed).

Falwynn

 

[Sihs]

The only one that can overclock using the multiplier is the K7-master.
Tom's review is a little outdated. The A7A should be really stable now.

Sh!t Happens.