Whats the best board for a athlon and where to buy in the uk

[JoeDredd]

Hello

Just had a let down on my order for a 500e CUmine, Intel F**cked up on shipping, so i am now hunting for a Mobo for a Athlon 600, 1£190 now. my question is what is the best board for this chip, ie most stable etc, and what speed on average will i get out of this chip and board combo.

Thanks

Deadman

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Attrend Mobo 6240 V2
MSI slocket(6905-Dual)
Celery 400a@500
Windows98SE
Matrox G400 32 D/H (5.41 drivers)
Soundblaster 1024 Live @3.0 drivers
8.4 West Dig (ATA 33)
6.4 Fugitsu (ATA 66)
MS Intell/Explorer USB
Pioneer 6/32x DVD
Memorex 48X CD
Altec lansing Sub + 2 satelite speakers

SuSe Linux soon to be installed (proper operating System)

[Guardian]

I have had 3 athlons and K7M boards from
www.overclockers.co.uk

The k&M is probably not the most stable, but they sell others too, they also have a good message board......

I would try here first if shopping for pc bits in the UK... they have a very reliable service.

[Greebe]

Only get the MSI MS-6167 MB! It is by far the most stable/trouble free SlotA MB out!

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[Darkstorm]

Btw JT, you spell it A-Trend, not Attrend :E

[Easty]

recommend the MSI.. www.dabs.com or www.insight.com/uk for cheapest I ever found in UK..about £117 inc VAT currently I think!

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Ath 650,G4MAX,MSI Mobo, Vortex 2, Maxtor 6880+, 128 (100)

[Muad'Dib]

You might want to wait a little until the kx133 boards start coming out. At least until the reviews are out (tonight I hope). you can see them at www.slota.com

[Thundrchez]

Congrats on your decision to go Athlon. They are a truly kick ass system.

I've got an Asus K7M mobo with my Athlon. It has been very stable and reliable on me except for one thing: I had to install the forceagp2x.reg registry hack to prevent the w98/K7M/G400 plaid death on cold bootups.

I do not have any first hand experience with any other Athlon boards, so I'll defer to them for their reviews.

Being in the states, I don't have a clue as to where is the best place to buy it in the UK.

[DentyCracker]

MSI MS-6167 is stable as the rock of Gibraltar. I couldn't get it to bluescreen during testing with a 600 Athlon, Marvel G400, SBLive! MP3+, HP usb scanner, AVA 1505 and Yamaha 8x4x32 SCSI burner. Oh and 5 dropped frames in a 17 min 720x480x30fps video capture. Yeah and I installed it with one 15GB partition on the 15GB IBM HD.

[JoeDredd]

Cheers everyone,

not sure if i am going to buy the 600 now, may purchase a 500, with 750 core, if i can find one, how do i tell if its one with a 750 core?, and are they 0.18 micron?, also how high will it clock.

I think i will go with the MSI board sounds a good board

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Attrend Mobo 6240 V2
MSI slocket(6905-Dual)
Celery 400a@500
Windows98SE
Matrox G400 32 D/H (5.41 drivers)
Soundblaster 1024 Live @3.0 drivers
8.4 West Dig (ATA 33)
6.4 Fugitsu (ATA 66)
MS Intell/Explorer USB
Pioneer 6/32x DVD
Memorex 48X CD
Altec lansing Sub + 2 satelite speakers

SuSe Linux soon to be installed (proper operating System)

[RoGuE]

The Biostar M7MKA board is the best/most stable Athlon board I've ever used.

I'd disagree with Greebe, I think that the MSI-6167 sucks. Stable/trouble free? not the ones I've come accross!

[Greebe]

Rogue, well I'm sure as with anything else, there are a few bad apples here and there... but I have tested them all (currently out) and will stand by my descision.

What problems have U incurred... ???

[RoGuE]

Hi Greebe,
Yes, obviously a few bad apples might get released (I think I got them all!), but on several MSI-6167 boards I noted the following problems:

Machine powering up for a second, then powering off again when switching on power to the power socket the PSU is plugged into (i.e before you even touch the case's power switch).

Generally less stable with overclocked Athlons (obviously you would disagree with this one ) than boards such as the Asus K7M and Biostar M7MKA.

USB problems - Machine refusing to boot if a USB mouse is plugged in and (when no PS/2 mouse is present). USB scanners (I tried Epson and Umax models) sometimes cause windows protection errors, or fatal exceptions while scanning.

I was perhaps a little harsh in my post above. The board does not suck, I just much prefer the other boards I've mentioned. Although the others do have their faults - K7M's silly ATX power connector position, and not liking anything above 750MHz CPU's for example.

BTW: What core does your Athlon have that you are currently running at 850MHz+?

Chris.

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AMD Athlon 500@750MHz
Asus K7M Mobo
128MB Crucial PC133
Millennium G400 DualHead MAX
Voodoo2 SLI Rig
Creative SBLive! Player 1024
..etc......




[This message has been edited by RoGuE (edited 02 February 2000).]

[mj12]

Hey, anyone here using an athlon and wanting a quality mobo and wanting to support the hmmm movement Read my KX133 post http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001195.html

[JoeDredd]

Well i have decided on the 550 0.18 chip £164, and a Microstar Mobo £118. How high will i get with this combo?

[Easty]

I'm running my wk 42 500mhz at 650, stable as hell! on the msi... Don't see no reason to push the speed/stability until there's a game that makes it stutter! I think that will be a while...As the best graphics game is probably still unreal..and how old is that??

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Ath 650,G4MAX,MSI Mobo, Vortex 2, Maxtor 6880+, 128 (100)