Need New Cheapish Mobo

[ste_w]

Hey All

I need a New Motherboard, as The USB and Graphics on my current one dont seem to work.

Basically lookin For

Nforce 2 or 3
AGP 8X
Dual DDR - Supporting 2x 512mb, PC2100 DDR, 184Pin, 266MHz DIMM
USB 2.0
Supports My AMD Athlon Xp Processor

Cheap ones ive found are:
Chaintech 7NJL6 £34
Asustek A7N8X-X SKTA NVNF2ST ATX Motherboard £41
Abit VA-20 £55

Anyone know much about these? Suggestions Would be helpfull,
P.S Live in UK, Wanna Stay around £50 Area

Please Help

Thanx

Ste_W

 

[ste_w]

Someone must have some suggestions, i really gota order 1 today and not sure which 1, well im kinda thinking with goin with the cheap Chaintech one....Cos its cheap lol

Somone help, Please

 

[ming]

from your list, i'd probably go for asus. should be more reliable than the others. but to be honest, i'd probably prefer to save the money for a major upgrade (if it's gona take place within 12months).

 

[ste_w]

When i was gona buy the chaintech 1 i was lookin at this 1 aswell, but i think i read something about the Asus one, like it was causin problems? How come u wud go 4 the Asus? im lookin ova it again now.

 

[Kush]

asus because thats a better board than the others, suppose to be a very good board last time i read about it, or get the board im using thats suppoe to be even better, abit nf7-s rev2.0

 

[ste_w]

I just ordered the Asus one, hope its good, ive checked specs etc n it seems it.

 

[ming]

Heard it was good for OC, but not sure if it's that particular model of Asus.

 

[ste_w]

o ok kool, The Chaintech 7njs which is the 1 thats messed up always detected my 1.8 AMD as a 2 Ghz 2400, so i hope this mobo will keep it at 2 rather than drop down to 1.8

 

[ming]

o ok kool, The Chaintech 7njs which is the 1 thats messed up always detected my 1.8 AMD as a 2 Ghz 2400, so i hope this mobo will keep it at 2 rather than drop down to 1.8

Well, not sure if that was an issue with the board itself or not, but just a bit of info... most (if not all) boards have a clock frequency switch as well as the clock multiplier switches located somewhere on the board that you can flip on/off to adjust the cpu speed - which might be the answer to your problem.