scriptasylum
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Since the Hammer is still a way off (and will be quite expensive at first), I am really shopping around for mobos now. I am still looking for a good mobo with the following features: onboard sound (preferably not AC97), LAN, USB2, and RAID (will be using as a ATA133 controller only). If I decide to overclock, then I'll also need voltage control, multiplier and FSB controls. I've read all kinds of reviews and one place will say brand X is good, and another will say it's bad; who to believe?
If anyone knows of a good site that reviews mainboards, or someplace where I can see user reviews, let me know!
One quick question about O/C: Can you simply change the multiplier is BIOS (assuming the mobo has it, or do you have to "unlock" the CPU as well? I know you can change the FSB setting to O/C too, but I tried overclocking my FSB on my present board too high and it currupted the harddrive running off my ATA133 controller PCI card So, now I'll be really careful.
Also, I've read that many KT333 chipset boards aren't really that much better than the KT266A boards because of running the memory asyncronously from the CPU bus. So, should I get a KT333 chipset and some PC2700 memory, or stick with KT266 chipset and use normal PC2100?
If anyone knows of a good site that reviews mainboards, or someplace where I can see user reviews, let me know!
One quick question about O/C: Can you simply change the multiplier is BIOS (assuming the mobo has it, or do you have to "unlock" the CPU as well? I know you can change the FSB setting to O/C too, but I tried overclocking my FSB on my present board too high and it currupted the harddrive running off my ATA133 controller PCI card So, now I'll be really careful.
Also, I've read that many KT333 chipset boards aren't really that much better than the KT266A boards because of running the memory asyncronously from the CPU bus. So, should I get a KT333 chipset and some PC2700 memory, or stick with KT266 chipset and use normal PC2100?