Motherboard for AMD Athlon 3000+ Recomendation?

[Ben]

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Hello,

I'm trying to find right motherboard for my new system.
I will have

Althlon XP 3000+ 400Mhz
512 MB DDR400 184 pin Kingston
2 Maxtor 80 gig drives - they are not SATA, but I'd like the board to have
SATA connector
Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 8xAGP 128 mb
Enlight ATX 420W P4 Power Supply, Model "EN-8420934"

Im not looking for something expensive, but somethign that will do the job,
be reliable and wont bog down the system


Thanks

 

[Guest]

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> I'm trying to find right motherboard for my new system.
> I will have
>
> Althlon XP 3000+ 400Mhz
> 512 MB DDR400 184 pin Kingston
> 2 Maxtor 80 gig drives - they are not SATA, but I'd like the board to
have
> SATA connector
> Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 8xAGP 128 mb
> Enlight ATX 420W P4 Power Supply, Model "EN-8420934"
>
> Im not looking for something expensive, but somethign that will do the
job,
> be reliable and wont bog down the system

I'm using an Abit NF7-S with that processor, no complaints about
performance, but I didn't like some of the pin and power connector
locations. I think I paid $85 for it at Newegg. It has onboard SATA,
firewire, LAN, and 6-ch audio.

 

[Guest]

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:57:28 -0400, "David Besack"
<daveREMOVEbesack@mac.com> wrote:

>> I'm trying to find right motherboard for my new system.
>> I will have
>>
>> Althlon XP 3000+ 400Mhz
>> 512 MB DDR400 184 pin Kingston
>> 2 Maxtor 80 gig drives - they are not SATA, but I'd like the board to
>have
>> SATA connector
>> Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 8xAGP 128 mb
>> Enlight ATX 420W P4 Power Supply, Model "EN-8420934"
>>
>> Im not looking for something expensive, but somethign that will do the
>job,
>> be reliable and wont bog down the system
>
>I'm using an Abit NF7-S with that processor, no complaints about
>performance, but I didn't like some of the pin and power connector
>locations. I think I paid $85 for it at Newegg. It has onboard SATA,
>firewire, LAN, and 6-ch audio.


I'll second that, NF7-S is the best choice for a board with the nVidia
Soundstorm Audio, at least for the price... Asus are pretty good too but
still costly for their Deluxe versions unless you happen to find one as a
Newegg refurb, meaning it likely won't come with any of the port-dongles,
cables, etc.

 

[Ben]

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anything cheaper than $80?

> >I'm using an Abit NF7-S with that processor, no complaints about
> >performance, but I didn't like some of the pin and power connector
> >locations. I think I paid $85 for it at Newegg. It has onboard SATA,
> >firewire, LAN, and 6-ch audio.
>
>
> I'll second that, NF7-S is the best choice for a board with the nVidia
> Soundstorm Audio, at least for the price... Asus are pretty good too but
> still costly for their Deluxe versions unless you happen to find one as a
> Newegg refurb, meaning it likely won't come with any of the port-dongles,
> cables, etc.

 

[Guest]

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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:20:18 -0700, Ben wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to find right motherboard for my new system.
> I will have
>
> Althlon XP 3000+ 400Mhz
> 512 MB DDR400 184 pin Kingston
> 2 Maxtor 80 gig drives - they are not SATA, but I'd like the board to have
> SATA connector
> Chaintech NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 8xAGP 128 mb
> Enlight ATX 420W P4 Power Supply, Model "EN-8420934"
>
> Im not looking for something expensive, but somethign that will do the job,
> be reliable and wont bog down the system
>
Asrock K7S8XE+ ($51).

http://www.asrockamerica.com/Products/K7s8xep.htm

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm

 

[Guest]

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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 03:48:54 GMT, "Ben" <ben@ben.com> wrote:

>anything cheaper than $80?
>

NF7, non-S version.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-144&depa=0

 

[Guest]

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On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:45:11 +0000, kony wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 03:48:54 GMT, "Ben" <ben@ben.com> wrote:
>
>>anything cheaper than $80?
>>
>
> NF7, non-S version.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-144&depa=0

25% more than the K7S8XE+ and doesn't have SATA. Hmmm.... I'd almost think
we were talking about PSU's.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm