Best VIA KT266A Board ?

[NicColt]

HotHardware has just put up a very good article on the differences and performances. it shows the hi and lows the good and the bad of all the boards and every board has it goodies. check it out. I personally think that it's just a matter of preference for what you want.

 

[PUNKtotalled]

I heavily recommend the Epox 8KHA+.

 

[Puternuttz]

<< A7V266E. Plenty good and is putting the smack down on the KR7A. Cheaper too. Check out HardOCP, Bench House. >>



Bump on that the Asus A7V266-E is a Great! motherboard.... I bought My Asus A7V266-E from www.newegg.com it is the latest version 1.07. I have a Athlon XP1800+ on it with a Vantec HSF CCK6035D with 384MB of
Crucial 2100DDR and a Visiontek Geforce2 Ultra and it rocks, thus far I've
had better that average benchmarks then listed on some websites, I also have
2 IBM's 60GXP 40GB set to raid Zero (0) and it's quite fast, It is a quality
board and well worth the peace of mind as far as stability and Quality Speed
is concerned...

Just my 2 cents
A good overview of a KT266A Mboard

 

[themightyplatypus]

I love my Abit KR7a raid.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I would have to say the Soyo Dragon + because of all of its features. The ASUS and Abit solutions cost more and don't have all the features. If you want to go less expensive and keep RAID, check out the MSI K7T266 PRO2-RU, if you don't care about RAID and want to save some money, get the Gigabyte GA-7VTXE or the SHUTTLE AK31A or the ECS K7VTA3 Version 2.0.

 

[senior guy]

Shuten said

<< I'm buying a XP 1700 and looking for a board that
would idealy have onboard sound and possibly integrated LAN. >>

....so the board that fits his search for the least $ is the Gigabyte GA-7VTXH ($110 at Newegg). He would have to pay a lot more for other boards with built in sound (better than the AC97) and LAN because they also have integrated RAID controllers.

The GA-7VTXH has integrated Creative sound and Realtek LAN chips, plus Gigabyte's unique dual BIOS. Admitedly, not a very good board for overclocking, but a very good performing and stable board at default settings.

 

[vampiro]

I would say get the Soyo Dragon+. My is running 100% stable and seems to have all the extras you are looking for. After that I would say the SolTek or maybe Asus.