which MB is recommended for OC'ing Athlon 800?

[Guest]

I"m getting ready to purchase a new system and want to find out the best combination before I slap down my bucks.

 

[LTJLover]

either the abit KT7A or one of the Asus offerings are always good OC boards. I have used the Abit and love it. A monkey could OC with it. I also hear good things about MSI boards.

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

 

[Oni]

I would go with the Asus A7V133 for several reasons. Asus makes very nice products, and they always have support for their products in the form of new bios, and new drivers. Not to mention its a very popular board and many people could help you with it. I think the next runner up would have to be the new Abit board (I forget what its called) but it has the new KT133a chipset on it so its capable of the 133 x2 FSB. I found an OEM that sells pre overclocked 1.2 GHz @ 1.4 GHz on the abit board, but I'm sure the asus would do it just fine.
Another way to choose (which shouldn't really matter) is the web site. look at the abit web site www.abit-usa.com and the asus web site www.asus.com and you can tell that asus has a better page. When I look at the abit page its relatively confusing. I KNOW this shouldn't matter, but I feel Asus is better and they just happen to have a better site too. I mean look at PC chips site www.pcchips.com , it sucks and guess what, so do their mother boards.

 

[TheSandman]

Very interesting and generaly true point with the web pages, anyway abit is very fast excelent overclocking board and the asus is about the same the msi k7t turbo board looks very good to extremly stable.

SANDMAN

 

[Guest]

I have heard nothing but rave reviews about the new IWill KK266 mobo, and I will be putting my money where my mouth is quite shortly as I plan to purchase that board this month Overclockers dream.

 

[Guest]

If you don't want RAID, I've heard epox has a good priced board, go check it out... I think Tom did a review of it along side the ABIT and ASUS and it was right up there (if not ahead sometimes)


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