Best Socket A XP mobo ?

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 1:40 am

What is the absolute best mobo for an Athlon XP and overclocking ?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 9:43 am

There's only 2 or 3 that I'd consider at this point in time......

Iwill XP333R ( rev 2.1) or Shuttle AK35GTR in that both have cpu core voltage adj of over 2.0 and both provide ata133 capabilities, although the Shuttle only does it by using the o/b Hpt372 RAID controller where as the XP333R is a total ata133 solution. Of course if you don't mind doing some soldering, you can do voltage modz on any of the top KT266A chipset based mobos. (e.g. Soyo Dragon, Epox 8KHA+, Shuttle AK31 etc.)

You may also want to check out the Abit KR7A too as I've read some pretty amazing results with that mobo as well. I'm not sure where the cpu core voltage adj maxes out on that tho. Plus it's pretty pricey.

The reason I think the Iwill is the best for OCing ( ok, maybe I'm biased :lol ) is that you also get several PCI/AGP bus dividers in the form of 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and even 1/6! 1/3 would be for running your cpu at 100FSB, 1/4 @ 133 FSB with the best part being runnning a 1/5 divider @ 166FSB and above in that you could conceivably be running 170-180 FSB with an unlocked AMD XP or T-bird and not really stressing your components anywhere near what you would if you were limited to the 1/4 divider on most other boards. For example, with your Athlon XP set to 9.5*180 FSB ( 1710 MHz) at the 1/5 divider, your AGP/PCI bus would be operating at 72/36 respectively. That ant too shabby.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 12:05 pm

Hey vid where did ya order your XP333 at? I'm seriously thinkin' about upgrading to that... Since ihave 512 Megs of Kingmax on my way

Its gonna be that or i'm gettin 'a vid card... Ain't figured out which one yet lol

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 1:04 pm

Right now I have an XP333-R rev 2.0 , It has problems with a Radeon 8500. Is anyone using an XP333-R rev 2.1 with a Radeon 8500 ? If so, any text corruption while using Internet Explorer ?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 4:02 pm

Nascar,

I heard that if you switch to MS Clear type that that problem goes away. Well at least it's a work around I guess.

Pred,

http://www.webuildpcs.com or I think http://www.newegg.com has the non-RAID version for about the same. Wherever you get it from, make sure you specify that you only want the revision 2.1 of the XP333R.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 5:55 pm

I don't think MS Clear Type is in Win98SE.

mightyplatypus · Post by **mightyplatypus** » Tue Feb 05, 2002 4:44 pm

I love my Abit KR7A. Its rock solid,easy to set up and lots of tweaking features.