New mobo for simming - what is recommended

Hi all, going to ditch my K7t266a. Not because of performance, it's that annoying problems with Via-chipset, soundcard,... I'm looking for a upper medium end (high end I might be able to afford, but most likely cannot get here in Malaysia) Spec as follows: AMD CPU (going to start with my existing XP1600+ for now) acceptable onboard sound, no AC97 (I'm sick of hunting bugs for creative. turtle beach,...) NO VIA CHIPSET - they spoiled the best part of my life during the past 2 years onboard 10/100 and modem would be appreciated I will be using my existing ATI Rad 9600 Mobo should be allright with WinME for Dualboot What does the community have to say? TIA JensSchumi --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi<dot>bravepages<dot>com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95

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> NO VIA CHIPSET - they spoiled the best part of my life during the past > 2 years > > onboard 10/100 and modem would be appreciated > > I will be using my existing ATI Rad 9600 > > Mobo should be allright with WinME for Dualboot > > What does the community have to say? > > TIA > > JensSchumi >

For midrange to almost top of line AMD chips...an Nforce2 board is the only way to go. Several manufacturers sell a very broad line of those boards. The Asus Nforce2 was considered a top performer. I have the ABIT NF7 board and it boots fast and runs real well. dave henrie

I'd highly recommend getting a Shuttle XPC with nForce2 mobo. Everything you could possibly want but without the extra heat, noise and bulk.

I also say Abit NF7-S. Be sure to get the -S as it includes the excellent onboard sound processor. This is an excellent overclocking board also. I'm running a 1700+ at 2.4ghz (10.5x230fsb) as we speak, with a Radeon 9700pro. Of course you'd need superior cooling and PC3500 to achieve this sort of result. rms

Ups, forgot to mention: GPL is a MUST to run properly on the new rig. Would prefer to run it on the WinME partition. TIA JensSchumi On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:24:53 GMT, [email hidden] (JS) wrote: >Hi all, >going to ditch my K7t266a. >Not because of performance, it's that annoying problems with Via-chipset, >soundcard,...<snip> --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi<dot>bravepages<dot>com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95

I've read that it comes w/o gameport. Is that correct? JensSchumi On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:57:23 GMT, "rms" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I also say Abit NF7-S. Be sure to get the -S as it includes the excellent >onboard sound processor. This is an excellent overclocking board also. I'm >running a 1700+ at 2.4ghz (10.5x230fsb) as we speak, with a Radeon 9700pro. >Of course you'd need superior cooling and PC3500 to achieve this sort of >result. > >rms >

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Correct. Andi. -- Remove only one zero to reply. "JS" <JensSchumi_not@home> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I've read that it comes w/o gameport. Is that correct? > > JensSchumi > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:57:23 GMT, "rms" <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >I also say Abit NF7-S. Be sure to get the -S as it includes the excellent > >onboard sound processor. This is an excellent overclocking board also. I'm > >running a 1700+ at 2.4ghz (10.5x230fsb) as we speak, with a Radeon 9700pro. > >Of course you'd need superior cooling and PC3500 to achieve this sort of > >result. > > > >rms > > > > --------------------------------------------- > LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: > http://jensschumi<dot>bravepages<dot>com/ > > GPLRank: -14.82 > Monsters of GPL: sub 95

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:05:29 GMT, JensSchumi_not@home (JS) wrote: >Ups, > >forgot to mention: > >GPL is a MUST to run properly on the new rig. Ofcourse! I've to add something about the nForce2 chipset, though. It doesn't work too well if you're using a gameport located on the motherboard. You can't disable it (nForce bug), and it often spikes. >Would prefer to run it on the WinME partition. Eek. Cheers! Remco

I plug my gameport wheel into an old turtlebeach santacruz, but use the nforce2 for sound output. Works fine. rms

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> [email hidden] (JS) wrote in news:[email hidden]: > > > > NO VIA CHIPSET - they spoiled the best part of my life during the past > > 2 years > > For midrange to almost top of line AMD chips...an Nforce2 board is > the only way to go.

Odd - I know VIA and nForce have a number of known issues, but I've actually been really fortunate with the multiple VIA systems I've had over the years. I'm getting ready for an upgrade, and I'm looking at a KT600-based board. Look at Newegg.com - note that nearly all the nForce(orig and 2) boards have "exchange-only" or "manufacturer warranty support only" notes, while I don't think I've seen anything like this for the VIA boards. Since I have an Audigy2 card already the onboard sound doesn't buy me anything, nor the dual-channel (only one RAM stick). I'd be curious what other people's experiences are w/the KT600 chipset. Kendt

Well, they aren't made any more (I don't thnk) but see if you can find an ABIT KG7. It has the AMD chipset and was always very solid. -Larry "JS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Hi all, > going to ditch my K7t266a. > Not because of performance, it's that annoying problems with Via-chipset, > soundcard,... > > I'm looking for a upper medium end (high end I might be able to afford,but most > likely cannot get here in Malaysia) > > Spec as follows: > > AMD CPU (going to start with my existing XP1600+ for now) > acceptable onboard sound, no AC97 (I'm sick of hunting bugs for creative.turtle > beach,...) > NO VIA CHIPSET - they spoiled the best part of my life during the past 2years

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> > onboard 10/100 and modem would be appreciated > > I will be using my existing ATI Rad 9600 > > Mobo should be allright with WinME for Dualboot > > What does the community have to say? > > TIA > > JensSchumi > > > > --------------------------------------------- > LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: > http://jensschumi<dot>bravepages<dot>com/ > > GPLRank: -14.82 > Monsters of GPL: sub 95

Gentlemen, I finally got the Abit NF7-S. Besiede a small glitch in the beginning (couldn't get any post with my inherited XP1600+/DDR256 256MB combo - needed a Bios-flash to newer version) the thing runs damn fine :-) All of my former problems are gone, I'm a happy camper :-) Tanks again and cya JensSchumi On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:25:18 GMT, "rms" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I plug my gameport wheel into an old turtlebeach santacruz, but use the >nforce2 for sound output. Works fine. > >rms > --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi<dot>bravepages<dot>com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95