[mythtv-users] Help me find a winner...stinking Kt133
Ryan A. Carris
rac at racarris.com
Tue Aug 12 21:39:37 EDT 2003
Well, I'm a big fan of the Asus A7N266-VM. It is a Nforce 1 motherboard
with everything onboard. Several of us are currently running one and
they work great. You can pick them up for ~$70 at newegg.com or mwave.com.
I recently built another system with a little more power using an Asus
A7N8X-VM. It's an Nforce 2 system, again with everything onboard,
including the video. You can pick them up for ~$100. Like the
A7N266-VM, these are pretty bare boards with only 3 PCI slots and a bios
that doesn't allow any overclocking. But the boards are small, cheep,
and Asus reliable.
I STRONGLY RECOMMEND AGAINST AN Epox EP-8RGA. This is Epox's NForce2
board with the onboard video. I tried two of these. I could not get
the sound and network card to work reliably. I tried for a whole month
trying Mandrake 9.1, then back to 9.0, and Redhat 9. I about drove
myself nuts. Purchased the Asus mb, and had it working in under an hour.
-rac
Ken Thompson wrote:
> Currently I have a dreaded KT133 chipset built into an ABIT KT7-RAID.
> Its suffering from the intermitten "buffer stuffed blah" So I have 1.5GB
> PC133 ram, 1 1.3 gig athlon processor. I'm having a heck of a time
> locating a motherboard that has an acceptable chipset AND allows me to
> use my current memory and processor.
>
> Could anyone offer me some suggestions as to which motherboard I should
> get? Budget is <= $100
>
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