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Ok Guys.. I'm going to have 2 extra CPUs laying around, and I figure I may as well go ahead and build a couple more rigs to fold with.. he he he.. Actually, I'm trying to get ahead of a couple of guaranteed system builds for persons after Tax Returns. I will have an XP1700+ B Core and an 1800+. I currently have mobos : DFI AD76 Raid and an Epox 8RDA+ Ultra 400 2.x What I want to know if what you guys would recommend for the two chips. I've actually got a Barton coming to go in the 8RDA+ (unless somebody knows a better board I should put it in) and the 1700+ will go on the shelf until a new board comes. And I have an 1800+ coming for the AD76 to replace a Bcore that died. And then another 1800+ for the shelf.

Basically What I need are two different kinds of boards.

Board 1 : Solid Stable doesn't have to be a overclocker as it will have an 1800+ in it.

Board 2 : Strong, Stable, OC like a Sumbiatch, and lots of nice goodies but a price that WON'T kill my bank account.

I'm looking at spending around $125 for both of them. If anybody has a board they'd consider selling send me a PM and I'll take a looksy.

Thanks eGo

i got a modded 8rda3+ i would trade for somthing similar with onboard sound that can do AC3 output to my reciver like my 8rda+ did.

Sorry Pugs, I don't have anything to trade you for it. Not willing to let go of my 8RDA+ as they're pretty hard to find now days and it's been an amazing board. Anybody else?

I like Biostar for a low cost system board for normall computing.
I'm not a heavy gammer nor have I tried overclocking it, but we have a biostar with a 1700xp installed that's never had a problem in 3 years (other than those cause by M$ software)

My testing rig for new items and programs is a biostar with sound and video and lan onboard, I have installed and pulled out ram, drives, cpu's modems, Wifi cards ect.. over and over and haven't had any type of system baord problems yet, even changed the case a couple times. Compare that to the Shuttle that was doa the first time had to rma it, then the board fried for no reason when changing cases and had to be Rma'd again! This test sytem is like the old erector set, put it together building something, then take it apart and build something else, and the biostar never fails

My newest Biostar for my 2500Xp 333fsb is going strong also, this one is fairly new, several months old.
I need faster ram I think, I just pulled a stick of 512 from another system and stuck it in. I think I am running a 333sfb 2500xp with pc 2100 ram
No problems, but I think it could and should be much faster than it is. Course I never tinkered with any settings yet, just put it together and started using it.

I think I have settings in the bios where I can overclock stuff, but on the biostars I never really looked yet as they aren't use for anything that needs it.

I don't call the Biostars cheap boards anymore, I now call them low cost boards
They seem to be of high quality, at least for normal use, and rugged for experimental use of install and remove hardware testing.