Re: Which motherboard is recomended for AMD 2000 XP
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 14:17, Daniel Freedman wrote:
>
> Hi Roberto,
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002, Armenteros Roberto wrote:
> > I would like to know which motherboard is known to be
> > good for the AMD 1800/2000 chips. I will be making a
>
> Depends what you want to do with it. For my needs (computational physics),
> I like Tyan's S2466N-4M dual board (great deal at ~$200 IMHO), but YMMV...
>
> I've also enjoyed the ECS K7S5A for really unimportant/cheap machines.
> There are (unsubstantiated???) reports about a hardware bug based either on
> this board or its Sis 735 chipsets, but then again, there have, at least
> historically, been lots of documented bugs with Via Athlon chipsets (mainly
> with UDMA disk access).
I've heard the rumors about both of these problems, but I've
got an ASUS A7V133-C (uses the Via KT133A chipset) with Athlon-C
1GHz (and drives plugged into an ATA/100 socket) and K7S5A with
Athlon 1600+ and both have run smoothly in a pretty warm environment.
> > purchase soon, so I want to have some insights from
> > you guys. Thanks a lot...
> >
> > Roberto.
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