Athlon XP motherboard recommendations?
 

Time to retire this POS computer. Looking at the Athlon XP over the P4 now and wondered if anyone has any reccomendations on a motherboard.

I generally stick with Abit - I love the jumperless configs, but stability and ram support is more important.

Any takers?

EPoX EP-8K7A+ !!! Two thumbs up, great stability, affordable and awesome overclock options !:thumbsup

I would actually buy a P4 1.6A right now those babies are cheap and run @ 2.2-2.4 Ghz with a standard HSF :Graucho

You might wanna look into those !

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Really? What mobo is best for that? Standard HSF and it overclocks by 50% - wow.

Sounds like the days of the celery 300a's running at 450 :)

In fact, people talk about the Northwood P4s as the next gen 300As :thumbsup

Mobo recommendation... hmm ... ABIT BD7-RAID eventually... i845 chipset, DDR goodness - can't go wrong with that one.

HardOCP has a nice writeup on the 1.6A:
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cpus/intel/p416a/

...so does overclockers.com:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips828/


:glugglug

I believe that Tom has some info as well... http://www.tomshardware.com

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hehehe thanks man - I just found those myself.

Sounds like the AVC SuFlower HSF is the one ot go for. I was always partial to the old copper orbs back in the celery days. Wonder if I could mod one of those to fit.... hmm

Very impressive though - 1.6 straight to 2.2 with no problems.

as far as stablity goes im in love with the boards from intel - I've sold quite a few in the last few months with NO problems at all.