which motherboard should i buy?

[linuxslacker]

It will be used w/ an AMD T-BIRD 1000 MHz, 266 FSB or better.
PCChip 810LM Socket A
PCChip 817 DDR Lan, Audio, Modem
PCChip 830 DDR Lan, Audio, Modem
ABiT-KG7, DDR, AMD-761 ChipSet
ABiT KG7-RAID DDR w/ IDE RAID
ABIT KT7A, 266 FSB, ATA100
ABIT KT7RA 266 FSB w/RAID
ABiT-KG7 Lite, DDR, AMD-761
Asus A7V133, 266 FSB w/Audio
Asus A7V133 266 FSB, no Audio
Asus A7A266 w/ DDR/SDRAM
Asus A7A266 DDR/SDRAM w/Audio
Asus A7V266 DDR/SDRAM, ATX 266FSB ATA100
Asus A7M266 DDR/SDRAM w/Audio
DFI AK76-SN, AMD-761, 2-DDR *
DFI AK75EC, KT133A, w/Audio
GigaByte GA-7DX, DDR, 266 FSB
GigaByte GA-7DXR 266FSB w/RAID
MSI K7 Master266 w/AMD 761 DDR
MSI K7T266Pro2 VIA/DDR w/Audio
MSI K7T266Pro2-R VIA/DDR w/RAID
MSI K7T-Turbo2 KT133A w/Audio
Shuttle AK12A, SDRAM, ATA100
Shuttle AK31, DDR, Version 2
Shuttle AK32, SDRAM/DDR

[pbharris]

Asus A7A266 w/ DDR/SDRAM

[linuxslacker]

and does it have to have audio on the board? i plan to use an sblive card.

[pbharris]

you can get it w/o the onboard audio. i did, i also have a sb live.

[Schotty]

Avoid onboard crap. Unless its like the $500 Tyan dual AMD with actually decent hardware, screw it. I have never had a board with good onboard audio/modem/video/lan. The one exception I see is the Tyan -- SCSI 3 controller, 2 EIDE ATA-133 controllers, 2 3COM 10/100 sockets, some audio and graphics that wasnt as impressive. The one thing though I always hated dealing with is the fact that these onboard everything mobos tend to skimp on pci slots royally. Like 2 or 3. I was lucky when I was a complete moron with hardware -- I had a 4 PCI slot one (first IBM mobo).

ASUS has never given me a problem that can be directed at ASUS directly. MSI's are in two of my four boxes and are making me happy.

[linuxslacker]

thanks guys, i'll go with the asus

[popcorn]

I have the asus A7V266 DDR w/audio and the audio is better than my old sb128. (It has nice 5.1 surround aswell). It's also regarded as one of the best boards for O/Cing.

Which Asus did you go for?

[ph34r]

I would really really really strongly recommend looking at a SMP mobo, especially since you can do dual AMD chips now... once you go smp, you'll never go back. My dual P2-450 box "feels" faster than my single 933, same amount of ram, in both Slack and Win2k.

[Outlaw]

For anyone else who may read this:

SHUTTLE BOARDS ARE CRAP

Or at least the AI61. I've had nothing but problems. A friend of mine's sister, who got the same board has also had nothing but problems.

[ASCI_Blue]

Epox 8HKA+ with DDR.

http://www.epox.com/html/english/pro...d/ep-8kha+.htm