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2. Best sA board:
Deez Wun! - That's about the best sA you can buy today for reasonable price
OK I learned something. I thought Socket A only had up to 333MHz FSB systems--where have I been? Anyways, don't put info this old in the thread, but...my Athlon 2600+ is 266MHz FSB...that board wouldn't work. Again 266FSB is too old to mention on your "stickey-to-be", but just telling you FYI. I'll find a board on newegg that works with that old cpu. There's simply too much of a PC already built to not finish by buying the mobo and putting the ancient parts together.
Funny and interesting side note (a little off topic)--the mobo I had I bought in 2001 supported FSB 200 and 266 processors, as well as SDRAM AND DDR slots. It came with a 700MHz Duron CPU @200FSB. I upgraded to an Athlon 1.2GHz T-bird cpu in 2003. Moved from crappy 256MB PC100 RAM to 512MB PC133 SDRAM.
Finally upgraded from Windows 98SE to Windows 2000. In early 2005, upgraded my GeForce4 MX420 PCI gfx card to GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP card, and then upgraded to the Antec PSU listed in my sig., replaced SDRAM with 512MB PC2100 RAM, and bought the Athlon 2600+ CPU at the same time. BIG PERFORMANCE JUMP.
I later bought that GeForce 6600 in my sig. and it had some issue with artifacts. I found out it was related to the old chipset on my mobo rather than the card, so I bought the ASROCK board, the ram, and the cpu listed in my sig. so I could move later to a PCI-express video card in the future. My new rig is here.
So I have a new case with a 430Watt Antec Neo PSU running my old system board, memory, and video card--and it goes out. Story of my life.
I look back now and realize--OMFG, that old sucky ECS K7S5A mobo lasted me 5 and a half years!!! Look at what I was able to go to from practically nothing--I had a PCI video card a Duron 700MHz CPU with PC100 SDRAM, and on the same platform was able to go to an Athlon XP 2600+ with a GeForce 4200Ti and 512MB PC2100 RAM. Socket A, in retrospect, was arguably the longest-lasting cpu platform ever. What a legacy!
LONG LIVE SOCKET A!