Wich motherboard for athlon xp ?

fricfrac · Post by **fricfrac** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 5:36 am

I need the help of the master of the forum to change my motherboard:
i have an athlon xp 1800 that i want to keep and a motherboard msi k7t turbo2 with via chipset that i want to throw away.
So my question is wich motherboard should i buy to ger rid of chipset problems and pci bandwith ? I want to use my pulsar at it's full power.
this is my config: athlon xp, pulsar 2, leadtek winfast 2500 (geforce 4 ti 4200) dual screen and win 2k sp3
Thanks for you're answers

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 9:30 am

Well, theres a question.....

The VIA motherboards of the past certainly offered poor performance for creamware cards. (And also poor pci performance)

But all the major manufacturers for athlon claim to have fixed pci performance problems in their next generation of motherboards.
How true this is we will have to wait and see.

All the new motherboards supporting ddr400 memory should I repeat SHOULD have pci performance problems fixed. This includes the VIA kt400, the nvidia nforce2 and the upcoming model from SIS.
But untill somebody tests these mobbos, there are no guarantees.

For the moment, the only mobbos providing decent performance, are the orginal nvidia nforce (updated to the lastest bios, and asus preferrably) and the AMD761, with the nvidia being supposedly the better of the two.

My advise would be to wait a month for the new mobbos to come out.

fricfrac · Post by **fricfrac** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 10:27 am

so i'll wait a month to see wich motherboard is ok for me

thanks for the answer

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Sep 02, 2002 10:58 am

nForce