geoff2000
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Motherboard recommendation
Hi,
Can someone please recommend the best motherboard to get. I am building a system shortly and want to make sure that I get the best hardware. It will have a pIII 800MHz or 900MHz
CPU. Right now I am thinking about getting Asus P3V4X Apollo Pro133A. Any thoughts?
Can someone please recommend the best motherboard to get. I am building a system shortly and want to make sure that I get the best hardware. It will have a pIII 800MHz or 900MHz
CPU. Right now I am thinking about getting Asus P3V4X Apollo Pro133A. Any thoughts?
1cell
Go with the Intel 820 chipset which supports Rambus and might well be the way of the future.
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Thanks, I have heard that from some other folks. Does anyone know of a place
to read up on the Intel 820 chipset? Anyone else have motherboard recommendations?
to read up on the Intel 820 chipset? Anyone else have motherboard recommendations?
hardware reviews
www.tomshardware.com
www.sharkyextreme.com
www.arstechnica.com
they should have plenty of info for you
also , check out MaximumPC magazine
or online www.maximumpc.net
www.tomshardware.com
www.sharkyextreme.com
www.arstechnica.com
they should have plenty of info for you
also , check out MaximumPC magazine
or online www.maximumpc.net
www.intel.com
Gives a good description and specs of the chipset and intels 820 motherboard with rambus memory
Not to say 1cells suggestions aren't worth looking at mine is just another voice!!
Gives a good description and specs of the chipset and intels 820 motherboard with rambus memory
Not to say 1cells suggestions aren't worth looking at mine is just another voice!!
Another great site (and run by a guy only two years older than me =)
www.anandtech.com
I am personally partial to Abit mobos mainly for the jumperless design and the fact that the BH6 is (IIRC) one of the first boards with a 133MHz bus that properly reduces the speeds of the other buses (PCI, IDE, ISA) down to compensate...only one it doesn't do is AGP, but there's only a PCI video card in there anyway =)
www.anandtech.com
I am personally partial to Abit mobos mainly for the jumperless design and the fact that the BH6 is (IIRC) one of the first boards with a 133MHz bus that properly reduces the speeds of the other buses (PCI, IDE, ISA) down to compensate...only one it doesn't do is AGP, but there's only a PCI video card in there anyway =)
Another voice :
Choose Intel I820 chipset, to avoid software patchs ....
With AMD Athlon choose AMD chipset...
Choose Intel I820 chipset, to avoid software patchs ....
With AMD Athlon choose AMD chipset...
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