[mythtv-users] Help me find a winner...stinking Kt133

[Ryan A. Carris]

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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