Which Athlon-board should I use?

Hi:

This post is especially for Athlon-fans such as I. I am in the process of putting together an Athlon-box, consisting of a 1Ghz Athlon T-bird 256mb of ddr PC2100, a Plextor CD-burner, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, an Imation Superdisk drive, a 7200 RPM Maxtor 30 gig IDE hard drive, & Nvidia GE force2 MX video card w/ 64 mb of SGRAM (I am also-contemplating throwing a DVD-Rom drive into this thing). This is all going to be put into a full-tower case, w/ slideout mobo tray, and a 300 watt ATX power supply. My question, is what mobo should I use? I am trying to decide, between the Abit kt7a-Raid266 or Asus a7m266. I would really-appreciate your input. Please lemme know what you would use, out of these two. In other-words, compare and contrast them for me. The obvious-advantage, for the Abit, is the Raid-capability. I would love to hear your opinions, & look forward to hearing them.

A7hlonfan

A7M266 owner. I don't like this board I can't get it to play UT very well, and I have tried too Gforce boards gts & Ultra. I been fooling with it on and off for 5-6 months. Outside of that it's OK. And not only is Asus support bad, you could say they have none. My main computer is a AbitKT7A-RAID it plays the game much smoother then my DDR board. Plus doing a BIOS update I thought I screwed up the FlashChip, being my first time. And their support were more then happen to send another FlashChip for under $10. I manage to get the board up again though and didn't need it. So for support Asus 0, Abit 10, as for my favorite board, it's abit since it plays UT very well. If u play UT I wouldn't reconmend it, since u have a Nvida card. I have a little conflick with my live card, but got that figured out and it's not a problem, refurring to my Abit. Good luck

defrage is child's play-fdisk

If you are going to get an ABit board (which I have and am very happy with) I think right now the KG7-Raid is the only choice with DDR for Athlon(XP).

The KR7-Raid sounds like it is going to be terrifc, but it hasn't been released yet (already slipped that schedule at least once... now I'm hearing late November, but I don't think we will see it until nearly Christmas)

Anyway, with all that said, I have formed the opinion that KT266A boards aren't where they need to be... yet! And the NForce boards are even farther away from reality.

I'd wait until ABit or ASUS has one ready before considering the KT266A route.

My PRESENT favorite to recommend is the KG7-Raid from ABit

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P.S If XP came out last week, and other hardware has been on the selves for awhile, none of it's compatible. That's why you down load driver's and BIOS updates. And the KT7A does have a BIOS update for the XP.

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