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List of Socket A boards prices - PCindex

http://www.pcindex.co.uk/results_Pro...Descr=socket+A

Originally Posted by Law

List of Socket A boards prices - PCindex

http://www.pcindex.co.uk/results_Pro...Descr=socket+A

Cool, good list.

MSI is referenced there by Microstar (their full name, who'd say?).

Abit and Gigabyte used to be good too.

If you haven't worked it out, when you click on the prices it brings up a list of websites that sell the motherboard and their prices. Used to use the site a lot back in the good old days of building and upgrading PC's with my student loan.

cheers guys, been on the pc now for a while and its fine! until the next time this is why i have ruled out overheating.

on that recomended site could someone point out a good board they all look the same to me?

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

on that recomended site could someone point out a good board they all look the same to me?

Mine is a Microstar K7N2Delta-ILSR. Like I said before, it has performed quite well over the years and has onboard sound, firewire, sata raid if needed. And the price on that site looks quite low... too low for what I paid in 2003!

this serial ATA is SATA init my hard disk is PARAELL which is PATA init sorry i'm a dunce so will a SATA m/board support my PATA hard disk?

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

this serial ATA is SATA init my hard disk is PARAELL which is PATA init sorry i'm a dunce so will a SATA m/board support my PATA hard disk?

Most m/boards, if not all, still support PATA devices. The K7N2 (and I'm talking about it because it's the one I know better) has the traditional dual PATA channels (up to four devices, as usual), in addition to the two SATA channels and an extra PATA, all routed into the integrated RAID controller. So if you still have, say, a PATA hard drive and one or two PATA optical drives, you don't even need to address the RAID thingy... just plug'em in the normal old fashion way.

cheers.

Power supply when mine did that the first time.

Failed motherboard the second.