Right ive just bought the Swiftech MC462 cooler and new 1.4 athlon cpu and just found out my kt7-raid motherboard is not that good to overclock so im looking for a new mobo,anybody recomend a good one for me :confused Also ive got pc133 memory and dont want to upgrade just yet,as ive spent a lot of the wifes money.
I've heard good things about EpoX's boards, they are brilliant for overclocking and also very very stable, Im not sure on the exact VCore adjustments for this board, or the max FSB you will be able to achieve, however going by other Epox's you will be able to goto about 2.1V on the core (need a good cooler for this tho, probably watercooling to get 2.1V stable)... The lfull specs for this board are here Its about £115 and has four IDE connectors, so a RAID is possible , four DIMM slots, supports 1.5Gb max, check more details at the link above... Hope this helps, Biggie
My epoX board has been good to me (see sig), fsb's up to 166Mhz I think (though my hdd gives out above 145) - which isn't bad for an sdr board. VCore can be adjusted from 1.65V - 1.95V so nothing special but it lets me get 1.4 out of my athlon on a day to day basis and 1.45-1.5 for benching There are other good boards around, asus, abit and IWill all do good sdr boards to get the cheapest IMO Cheers, r.
Or you could go for a KT7A...but the Iwills and EpoXs are also said to be very good. Alternatively, you could get an ALi Magik or SIS 735 based board, so you can use your SDR memory for now, and then get DDR later. Here's an SiS board for not a lot of money http://www.tekheads.co.uk/products.php?view=product&productId=600426 The benchmarks showed the SiS chipset beating the AMD 760, but it's probably not as quick as the KT266A. However, for £56, with the DDR possibilities, seems a good deal. No idea about how good a board it will be though.
i have an epox 8k7a and its a brilliant board. stable as hell! kicks ass for overclocking. very good quality. AV and Norton Ghost free with it too.
you'll need ddr ram for the 8kt7a but it might be worth investing - only 30 little squids for 256Mb crucial ddr (www.crucial.com) and you could sell your old ram on a forum like this one for a bit... As for ghost and av... got copies with my 8kt3a+ I think too (sdr version of RTT's 7), cheers, r.
I have the asus A7A266 ali based mobo, I haven't had a single problem with it and ots pretty damn stable..... i chose it coz i didnt want to upgrade to ddr either but knew i would want to soon, it has 2 ddr and 3 sdr slots..... MentalPhr34k
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Ok lads,im going to get the EPOX-8K7A+ mobo and 512 crucial ddr pc2100 memory think this is the best i can do what you think?? P.s thanks for the help
not sure if my swiftech mc 462 will fit the mobo,i whent to the swiftech site and it said that the EPOX8KTA3 was compatable not sure of the EPOX-8K7A+ though>
When your 5V line gets below 4.62 Volts (well this is the case on mine) it causes the computer to freeze, due to lack of powa!! its F. annoying cos this happened to me at one point, and somehow the registry got itself corrupt... bye bye windows... The enermax is a great PSU, but I recommend doing a Dual PSU mod on it, so you can power all your hard drives, etc off a different PSU, that way you have 431W of Powa just for your mobo... Cheers, Biggie
lol I don't think the mobo really needs 431W of power, it's just that the enermax isn't good at keeping it's 5V line high - any other 300W psu would probably be fine r.
