New motherboard advice

[ASHBURRN ®]

Hiya,
I have:

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  <LI>AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
  <LI>Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40GB UDMA133 Manufacturer code: 6L040J2

I want:
A motherboard that will take the above peripherals. I would like the motherboard to have:

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  <LI>SDRAM slots
  <LI>A built-in sound card
  <LI>A built-in Ethernet adapter (not so important)

I don't need anything fancy like RAID or SCSI ports. It would be nice to have 1 or 2 USB ports.
Could the motherboard be from one of these three manufacturers: ABit, Asus, MSI.

 

[edjam]

ECS K7S5A might be a good one for you.

 

[human2k]

K7S5A dont support ata 133 tho, I would go with the SHuttle AK35 GTR, its a special edition version of the AK31A, it features 4 DDR DIMM slots, 6 PCI, onboard hardware sound, ATA 133, and RAID. ALl for one low price = $129 at newegg.com.

 

[Kevster]

I am using a msi with onboard sound right now and i like it very much, i'm just wondering with new technology why you want sdram and not ddr ram? the motherboard i recommend is a epox 8kha+, look around in other forums and you will keep seeing this board being the number one recommended

 

[spaceman]

k7s5a cheap,stable(at least from my experience)support for xp/ddr when u want to go there.

 

[joecool]

why do you want on-board sound when you can get a great sound card cheap?

btw, i've got the ecsk7s5a as well & love it. perf. numbers are great, love the on-board lan, & with both sdram & ddr dram slots you've got a nice upgrade path...

 

[ASHBURRN ®]

Well, regarding the sound card -- I live in the UK, where things are never cheap. A Sound Blaster Value! card would set me back nearly £39.

 

[ASHBURRN ®]

Then again there are probably cheaper ones out there .. I'll decide later. Keep the suggestions coming.

P.S. It's not for me .. I already have a rig of my own .. it's for a friend of mine.

 

[cleverhandle]

I'm pretty sure that any board that still takes SDRAM isn't going to support ATA133. The technologies are just too far apart. But if you don't want RAID, then I doubt you're even going to fill up an ATA66 channel, much less ATA100. So just about any current SDRAM board would do. I like the ECS K7S5A also - stable in my experience, and dirt cheap.