Good low cost overclocker shuttle board

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I'm currently using a ECS K5S7A Pro (latest honey bios upgrade)
AMD XP 2000 T-bird (A 6-8-0)
Muskin basic PC2700 memory, two 256MB sticks.
I can overclock a little to 137/137mhz, anything more and the system
sometimes locks up.
I want to replace my current motherboard to something that will allow
my memory to run at 166mhz, but still allow my current processor to run
(133mhz bus speed).
I will replace the CPU in the future with something with a 166mhz bus speed.

I'm looking for a low cost motherboard, something that does a little
overclocking.
(Maybe a K7VTA ?)
So what Shuttle motherboard can people recommend ?

 

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Tod wrote:
> I'm currently using a ECS K5S7A Pro (latest honey bios upgrade)
> AMD XP 2000 T-bird (A 6-8-0)
> Muskin basic PC2700 memory, two 256MB sticks.
> I can overclock a little to 137/137mhz, anything more and the system
> sometimes locks up.
> I want to replace my current motherboard to something that will allow
> my memory to run at 166mhz, but still allow my current processor to run
> (133mhz bus speed).
> I will replace the CPU in the future with something with a 166mhz bus speed.
>
> I'm looking for a low cost motherboard, something that does a little
> overclocking.
> (Maybe a K7VTA ?)
> So what Shuttle motherboard can people recommend ?

Definitely AN35N Ultra. I have OC'ed to 400, though I have a second stick
that is speed challenged so I run at 333 at the moment. My cpu is locked
and cannot be unlocked, but with an unlocked CPU it does very well. Run an
L or later bios to get UDMA under DOS (good for Ghost or PQDI backups).
Wish it had sata but it's easy to get a $20 PCI card for doing that.
(used to run a K7S5A. I think it's still kicking around somewhere.)
( I vastly prefer the Nvidia chipset) ( I now avoid VIA like the plague)
hth
Kristi

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