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Master of Reality:
I will be getting a new computer soon (which i will be running Linux-Mandrake 8.1 on) and i still haven't decided on the motherboard to use with the AMD Duron 1GHZ (due to cheapness) that i am getting.
I am thinking of just getting a ASUS AV133-C or perhaps a tyan trinity... got any advice?

Zombie9920:
If you are planning on just using SDRAM the ECS K7VZA v.3 mobo is a good and cheap mobo. If you want to use SDRAM for now and want the option of using DDR down the road go for the ECS K75SA(another good, cheap mobo). I have built a few AMD systems using ECS mobos and they all work great. Like with the ECS K7VZA...ECS actually released a BIOS update to solve Via IDE performance issues(which is something that Via doesn't even do with thier drivers), so the company does stand behind thier products.

Centurian:
Hey,

This is the board I am using with my 1.6 Gig Athlon.
Giga-Byte MotherBoard

I love it.

Oh yes I am running Mandrake on it.

[ March 04, 2002: Message edited by: Centurian ]

Bateluer:
Is cost your main concern? I would definitely go DDR, it will eck more speed from your proc.

I put the ECS SiS735 board in my sister's computer in conjunction with a Duron 700 and 256megs of SDRAM (it can take DDR too) . Though the board is rather feature sparse, and the integrated audio sucks, its quite stable and suits her perfectly. Last I checked, it was around 60 bucks at Newegg.com.

If I was going to pick a motherboard, I would go for either the Soyo K7V Dragon+, the Abit KR7A-RAID, or the Asus A7V266-E. I have not had the experience of working with one of Nvidia's nForce based motherboards, tho I hear the boards are quite stable and perform well. The integrated video and the audio is also MUCH better than the AC97 codec based integrated audio in other boards.

Zombie9920:
I'm under the impression that he wants to use PC-133 SDRAM because the Asus AV133-C is based on the KT133A chipset(I think, I didn't bother looking to see if this is correct). The boards you mentioned are all DDR boards. Of course DDR solutions are gonna be better than the old SDRAM solutions. ;P

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