Best Duron Motherboard?

[justinstraub]

My neighbor is building a PC for his brother. The computer will be for gaming and cable internet. They are going with a Geforce3 Ti200 to cut costs. What motherboard would you reccomend for this setup? They want to use PC2100 memory. How would the Asus A7N266-C be? And is it better to use 2 128 Mb sticks instead of just one 256 stick in this motherboard?

thanks
justin

 

[nemo160]

i'd go with a single 256 stick to leave room for future upgrades
the ecs k7s5a is a good duron board, fast, really cheap, onboard nic, workable onboard sound, not big on overclocking options but it doesn't sound like that will be a problem for this setup
make sure to use good quality ram and a good amd certified psu
the board has an option to run at 100 fsb/133 mem so pc 2100 memory will work great despite the durons 100 mhz fsb
looked up that nforce board....nice board...but twice as much as the ecs board
unfortunatley the dual channel ddr of the nforce didn't really work out as well as one would have hoped...my kt333 based board gives it a solid beating in bandwidth
the only real advantage to getting the nforce board would be if you have speakers good enough to take full advantage of the onboard sound (i.e. dolby digital 5.1 system)
so giving that caveat..i'll reccomend the ecs board

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The K7S5A is a great choice but I prefer the AK31A for 5$ more as I unlocked the L1's on a 1ghz Morgan, lowered the multiplier, raised the FSB and have it@155x7.5=1.165ghz which provides better bandwidth that way than anything but the RDRAM solution in Sandra.

 

[justinstraub]

aright thanks for the help