Need a new mobo for 9700pro

Muchacho1313 · Feb 19, 2004, 05:28 PM

Any suggestions? I have $200 to play with.

Currently running
Windows XP
Radeon 9700pro
512 mg ram
amd 2.0
MSI 6390 mobo

mkk · Feb 19, 2004, 08:10 PM

I'm guessing you have an AthlonXP. Then I suggest not spending all that money on a motherboard, but get something good enough to a nice price. The Abit KV7 is one such board. Really inexpensive yet quite good enough for most any uses except hardcore overclocking. If you have had that AthlonXP for a while chances are that you could overclock by changing the multiplier with it. More recently manufactured CPU's have hard locked multipliers though.

Muchacho1313 · Feb 19, 2004, 09:01 PM

kewl thanks for the tip but how would i change the multiplyer? also alot of my setting are hidden in the bios because i have a compaq.
also when I instal this new mobo am i going to have to do a fresh install of windows?

and yes its an AMDXP2400 cpu

Ev!L-aLphA · Feb 19, 2004, 10:24 PM

try the asus a7n8x-Deluxe E or something like that or just the deluxe rev2 very good mother board

Necrosis · Feb 19, 2004, 11:03 PM

Hold it doesn't some of the Compaq's come with a version of the A7N8X already?