Athlon mobos

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FatBusinessman

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Sorry, this must have been asked umpteen times before, but apparently not recently...

I'm getting a new computer before I pop off to Uni, and I wanted to know what's a good motherboard to get (for an Athlon XP 2000-ish processor) for around £100 (inc. VAT).

Apparently the Asus A7V333 is quite good - any thoughts?
 
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Skyler

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Dont get an ABit KR7A-133 or the KR7A-133R.

It is quite literally the worst motherboard I have ever seen, this board has shown me nearly every BSOD win2k has to offer :(

If you can get something else, do so ;)
 
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xane

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Strange, I have the Abit KR7A (non-RAID) running on ancient Windows 98 SE and its absolooty-sooper-doody stable for me.
 
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Dimebag

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I have an abit kr7a raid board, running an athlon xp 2200 atm, its a bit wonky sometimes but thats due to me ramping up the fsb and certain pci cards dont like it.

Why the board supports up to 200mhz fsb but doesnt have a devide over 4 is beyond me. 133 /4 = 33 perfect.
So if want to run at 166 with my ddr 2700 ram i have 166/4/2 for pci/agp respectively. So with this pci bus of 41.5 mhz how many of my 5 cards do you think work? Thats right, none at all, its rediculous not to have a 5x devide it really is.

Anyway back to the point, when the board was running a 1.2ghz athlon (100mhz bus) and a 1.4 ghz athlon (266 bus) it was superb. No problems what so ever.

The old fixes for the sb live problem like the pci master read caching caused the machine to stutter and die admittadly, but it actually runs superbly without this "fix" to be honest. My old 100 mhz bus kt7 needed it but this one seems fine. If you use the highpoint raid controller for your hdds it seems to fix the problem totally anyway. Lovely board, im keeping it and i'd recommend it also :D

Dime


PS I was writing a massive article on being pissed off about having to unlock the chip or mod the board (involves sending a cheque to abit for a new bios or unlocking the chip (what i did in the end)) after clearly on the website it just says "flash the bios to version 9n and it supports the 2200+ thoroughbred core!". Im quite digusted with abit for the lack of publicity here. HOW MANY people are going to buy this board along with the chip (seeing as the kr7a raid (133 and normal) is one of abits more popular recent board) and they will plug them in together to find it just plain doesnt work. You start running around like me thinking things are broken when its just a plain compatiblity issue. Very very angering.
 
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Happy Go Lucky

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raid add-on cards

I need to set up a raid system, which m/b would be a good one for a newb like me?

I've seen add-on cards for about £80, can I get a nice cheap-one?as 80 notes will almost get me a new m/b with raid? also are they worth doing, particulary on a msi k7t 266 Pro 2?
 
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jis

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my raid card was about 40quid maybe less and its damn good

it is a iWill side raid 100

there are different ones that support ata133 but there is plenty of choice.

i went for as cheap as possible, but that was my choice :)
 
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Happy Go Lucky

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where can I get one? , I'll be running raid 1 , possibly 0+1 btw
 
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Happy Go Lucky

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seen a cmd one at dabs.com only £15 but it didn't get a glowing customer review, question is should I buy it
Title: Dabsvalue CMD ATA100 RAID 0+1 Inc Cable
Subject: Dabsvalue CMD ATA100 RAID 0+1 Inc Cable
Date Reviewed: Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Advantage: Cheap
Disadvantage: Lack of good interface/manuals/support



I bought the `Dabsvalue CMD ATA100 RAID 0+1 Inc Cable` a couple of weeks ago from Dabs. This is a very basic product with no proper support from the manufacturer, and it comes with very poor documentation. It is made by a company called `CMD` who don`t have the courtesy to answer e-mails, and you are going to be left wishing, if you want/need to upgrade the software etc. The scant documentation suggests a different chipset to the one which is actually supplied, and then recommends going to a non-existant website section to download a software upgrade. I`d probably buy a unit made by `Promise` next time, as their`s is vastly superior in both interface and support. I bought this particular one because I needed one very quickly, but it`s not a choice I`d recommend to anybody. Folks, don`t forget that `cheap` is not everything !!! Imagine using this thing in an important server !!!

Would you recommend to a friend? No
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Happy Go Lucky

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RAID patch (rpp 1.02)
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Can I have a link pls? (already tried via arena)
George's version.
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Whats that?

Any idea when those lurvely m/b's will be in the shops?

edit: suprised to see that the at7-max2 still has ps2 ports, as the first at7 was non-legacy, guess it will outsell it still tho, saves me from upgrading my ps2 keyboard. :/

I may take a chance and get that cheap raid card, providing I can get a cheap ibm 60gxp at the same time.
 
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throdgrain

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Oddly enough I have actually got the very board you are asking about. I have found it 100% reliable for what its worth :)
 
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jis

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what throd u have brought something good ?!?!?

i dont believe it..i wanna see some proof

scan ure reciept
 
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Happy Go Lucky

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Originally posted by jis
what throd u have brought something good ?!?!?

i dont believe it..i wanna see some proof

scan ure reciept
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Why do you not believe that throd has a Abit At7 non-legacy? ;)
 
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jis

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Originally posted by Happy Go Lucky


Why do you not believe that throd has a Abit At7 non-legacy? ;)
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do u not know how old this man is ???

i thought he still had an AT mobo
 
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throdgrain

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Ohh yeah its got an Athlon xp2.0+ hanging out of it too, I believe they're quite "good" too, if thats the right term my little know it all friend ;)
Oh and a SBlive Audigy soundcard/5 speaker system attatched to it too somewhere, Im told the "good" word applies reasonably to that too.
Oh and now we're talking, Im told my television thingy, called a "monitor" I believe, a 192 LG Flatron can employ the "good" word to some effect as well. ;)
 
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jis

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i will have to apologise then throd :)

u really arent as old as people say ;)
 
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Happy Go Lucky

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Help needed on removing cpu's

I've never actually done it, but I would have though you just pull the lever up and presto it loosens the cpu.

It didn't happen and ended up pulling the lever all the way, had the remove the psu to do so, so it snapped taking some platic with it, i've tried moving the the lever to the unlocked position but it doesn't make any difference. I can't remove the cpu whatever I use to try to leverage it out, the worst thing is that my computer won't work now it powers on but nothing happens.

How do I remove it?

Thanks in advance.
 
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