Im gonna build a folding box with either a 1800+ or duron 1.6 can decide. Whats a good mobo that can hadle some overclocking and not too expensive hoping around $50-80 if possiable. Also any ideas about some ram too?
We have this one here at home and have had no problems with it. Ours is the older version with the 333 fsb nforce chipset but otherwise identical. Has folded 24/7 since February. Nothing too special about it but stable as a rock running our 1700+ Tbred A. You'll be able to run an 1800+ at 200+ fsb if it's an unlocked chip of the right stepping.
MSI not particularly known as enthusiast product but again, no problems in 10 months with this one.
mmonnin had this to say Yeah get one with an nForce2 chipset even if you wont be OCing. The other one with a KLE133 wont get you very far.
I included that one because it has onboard everything (lan, audio, video). Slap a CPU, Memory & a HD in it and you're off and running. You are absolutely right about the OC, though.
The MSI KT4V-L is a VIA KT-400 board. I got the FSB to 150 (up from 133) with stock parts (i.e. no special cooling, no voltage tweaking). Gonna have to figure out a way around that locked multiplier...
OTOH, with the new Abit AN7 now out, the NF7 series boards have dropped in price. Doing w/o the fancy sound, etc, you should be able to find one of those within your budget.
Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited December 2003
Forgot ASROCK (ASUS's budget division), so if you were looking at one of their boards, that should be fine too.
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Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited December 2003
For $39.00 it is hard to go wrong with one of these boards. I would also make sure to get this BIOS and you will need to use this flash utility. You will be able to do light to moderate OC'ing on the FSB.
i have one of those now with a 1900+ but it hasnt liked any overclocking
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Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited December 2003
I have one running with a 1800 Palomino and generic PC2100 @ 147FSB very stable for a long time (builf for my step-son). As a matter of fact I have built over 20 of the old black pcb non pro boards and 8 of the new pro's and they all got the Cheapoman bios and at least a little OC B4 going out the door and never heard a peep from the owners since.
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I have an MSI KT4V-L with an XP1700+ running at 2000+ speed. It goes for about $70 at Newegg
MSI not particularly known as enthusiast product but again, no problems in 10 months with this one.
The MSI KT4V-L is a VIA KT-400 board. I got the FSB to 150 (up from 133) with stock parts (i.e. no special cooling, no voltage tweaking). Gonna have to figure out a way around that locked multiplier...
OTOH, with the new Abit AN7 now out, the NF7 series boards have dropped in price. Doing w/o the fancy sound, etc, you should be able to find one of those within your budget.
Stick to ABIT, ASUS, Albatron, Chaintec, DFI, ECS, Intel (Intel CPUs only, of course), MSI, Soyo, Supermicro, or Tyan.