Socket A motherboards

[Himself]

Thought folks might want a run down on some socket A motherboards on the way.

MSI: http://www.msi.com.tw/Product/mainboard/k7tpro.htm

FIC: http://www.fic.com.tw/motherboards/az11/az11_intro.htm

SOLTEK: http://www.soltek.com.tw/English/products/75kv.htm

EPOX: http://www.epox.com/html/english/pro...rd/ep-8kta.htm

I like the EPOX board myself.

[Helevitia]

I thought I'd add one more to the list

sheet! The Asus website is down. Anyway, here's a link to another site that has some good info about it:

http://motherboards.org/releases/asus_a7v_060900.html

Dave

[Joel]

I like the looks of the EPoX board myself.

Joel

[Helevitia]

Asus's website came back up. Here's the link I was going to originally send:

http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/socketa/a7v/index.html

Dave

[Himself]

Looks like the EPox one has dipswitches to overclock the cpu with. I also have more experience with that brand than the rest.
I'm sure the others are just as good, though.

[paulcs]

I think the Epox board is the most attractive. The six PCI slots and a single ISA slot are nice as well. Funny place for the power supply connector, however.

I like the fact that MSI appears to have integrated a real soundcard. The funky placement of the Northbridge is interesting as well.

It's good to see Asus has rediscovered the bottom of the motherboard for the placement of floppy drive connector.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net



[This message has been edited by paulcs (edited 26 June 2000).]

[Helevitia]

I think the Asus board will be the best bang for the buck. I supports UDMA/100, 1.5GB RAM, AGP Pro slot, dip switches for O/C'ing, and it has the cute color coded IDE connectors

Dave

[Alfie]

Epox board is now available!

http://www.paragoncomp.com/cgi-bin/enhanced

[This message has been edited by Alfie (edited 30 June 2000).]

[Himself]

Cool, buy one and tell me if it overclocks the Duron.

[Alfie]

You first!

[Himself]

I'm in Canada, I don't buy from the US anymore, too much hassle, especially if you have to return something.

[Himself]

Ah, that price just jacked up to $138, oh well.

[Himself]

Another one:

http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/m7vkb.htm

Seems like an ok config.

Right now the EPox, Fic and Gigabyte boards are apparently available. Only the latter two have I seen in Canada.

[Himself]

http://www.vr-zone.com/home.shtml#726

Some news about Soyo socket A boards, also news that the Asus board *will* have it's cpu multiplier dipswitches enabled.

[HedsSpaz]

Myself I'm probably going to wait for a board based on the AMD760 Chipset. But if I were to get one of these, I think I'd have to go with the Asus or MSI board. MSI did an absolutely incredible job with the K7Pro and hopefully they will do the same with their new board, and Asus, well, they're Asus, what more can you say!

As far as the Epox board goes, I have a 7KXA now, and put simply, I will never buy another Epox board again. Furthermore, I for one am quite sick of having valuable space taken up by ISA slots. I finally got rid of my ISA modem not to long ago and I plan on never again getting an ISA card of any sort.

My .02$.

Ian