Best Athlon-Board for G400MAX ???

[Surfwienix]

what is the fastest and the most stable(!) mobo for a Athlon-G400MAX-combo ???

any review-links?


thanx

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>> Surfwienix <<
(German)

My System:

AMD K6-2/400@450
Epox MVP3C-M Super7 (VIA 4.20 + AGP v4.02)
128MB SDRAM(PC100)
Matrox Millennium G400 MAX
(PD 5.30 + TGL 1.3 + DX 7a) AGP2x/256MB @IRQ11(not sharing) non-o/c
Terratec DMX Sound-System
6,4GB Maxtor HDD (UDMA33)
ASUS 50x-CDROM (UDMA33)
Realtek 8019 Ethernet (ISA)
Creatix HAM V.90 Modem
19" Monitor CTX-VL950T (95khz)
Windows 98SE

[Damien Green]

I've got both the Asus K7M and Abit KA7. Both boards are pretty stable, but as with many Athlon boards, setting them up can be quite difficult.

For speed I would reccommend the KA7 (which powers the Athlon 800 machine upon which this message is being written) - and it comes with all the latest features i.e 133Mhz memory support, AGP 4x. However you will encounter problems setting it up if you're going to be using Win 2K - these are all documented on Toms Hardware guide (http://www.tomshardware.com) - and solutions are provided.

If you want an easy ride when you come to set the board up, I would choose one of the boards Gigabyte offers. It doesn't posess the overclocking features present on both Abit and Asus motherboards - but is quick and simple to set up, and apparently - very stable.

As a general rule of thumb - remember:

AMD 750 chipset - more stability and easier to set up.

Via KX133 - more speed but trickier to set up - but once running - very stable.

Anyway hope this helps a bit.

[Surfwienix]

thanx