Athlon Socket A experiment

[uddeholm]

Hi, I came across a socket A Athlon thunderbird and was looking for what was the best Mobo of its time for that chip. Dont know if anything runs more then PC133 sd-dram or if some boards ran faster memory.

Any help with this old stuff would be great.

 

[steckman]

I don't know about the best motherboard, but I was happy with my ECS K7S5A back when it was in service. It was cheap and stable, but didn't offer much in the way of overclocking.
And as to your memory question, the board had 2 PC133 slots as well as 2 DDR slots supporting up to PC2100 (DDR266). So you can find Socket A motherboards with DDR support.

 

[Newf]

What was once best is of course no longer sold. You have to choose from what's still left on the market. At least there are still nForce2 boards still available. I would avoid the Via and SIS options.
Biostar M7NCG 400
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138234
Good luck on your search.

 

[smelly_feet]

i bought a dfi board 2 months ago for 40$ CAN

supports ddr 333 and even has Sata1 slots (2).


there are also a lot of asrock socket A (ddr400) boards which computer stores are trying to sell off.

 

[bkiserx7]

I loved my Abit NF7-S V2. Had a 2500+ XP-M at 2.8 til lightning struck near the house and surged everything even through my surge protector. Im pretty sure the the Thunderbird would work on it and you can get some ddr400 and get good overclocks. eBay is always a good source for the older stuff and look at this price on ram with google checkout Kingston 512mb ddr400 stick, and Abit NF-7 motherboards here on eBay.

 

[uddeholm]

ya, watching a abit NF7-s with version 2, guy also is selling 2800 seperately. I have an extra gig of ddr400 corsair xms stuff with a agp 6800gt, so I think it might make a decent backup system. I might just sell off this old 1000 if the 2800 stays cheap enough. Thank guys for the help, and merry xmas

 

[SEALBoy]

I loved my ECS K7S5A. If I remember correctly, they came out with a Pro revision that offered PC2700 support and USB 2.0.