What is a good stable socket A motherboard for under $100?

[freakylink]

I am looking for a good stable motherboard with 5+ PCI slots that can handle an AMD 1.2GHz Athlon 266 FSB for around $100 or less. Any suggestions? Are the refurbished boards on Newegg.com's website good boards?

 

[Boonesmi]

epox 8kta3 $90 at newegg.com
has the via kt133a chipset, so it runs both 200 and 266 athlon/durons

 

[Jeff7]

Newegg also has a lot of good prices on their refurbished stuff; think there's an 8KTA3 for $80 shipped there.

 

[oofdemon]

I just bought an ABIT KT7A for $89 shipped, but I think that was a typo, it now costs $124.

EDIT : This is at newegg.com of course

 

[snidy]

MSI K7T pro 2 A would be my choice if I only had $100 to spend, but you should spend the extra $30 - $ 40 and get an Asus A7V133, I've had it for 4 months, and it rocks.

 

[Pers]

i love NewEgg!

 

[Peter]

The best budget socket A board out there, and currently the best selling mainboard of any kind here in Germany is the ECS K7VZA.

Get revision 3 of it for 133 MHz FSB support (266 if you like to double the figures for DDR busses ...). The board has just the basics, 5 PCI, an AGP 4x and an AMR slot, onboard sound coming from the VIA 686B chip, and nothing else.

No overclocking fiddly bits on it - but with the money saved, you'll easily be able to buy a higher speed grade Athlon to start with ...

regards, Peter