What mobo with Ahtlon XP?

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Hey guys, I´m building a DAW and want to go with an Maudio Delta 1010 souncard. Does anybody out there use this card with an Athlon XP? If so, which mobos present no conflicts between the two?
 
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You gotta give it awhile. The site's been kinda flakey lately.

I'm running a Delta 1010 and an XP1800 on an Abit KR7-133A mobo, which is based on the VIA 266A chipset. I haven't had any problems, but VIA has had a reputation of instability in the past. They may have turned it around, but some people will still tell you to avoid them.

They have the KT333 out now too, I don't know anything about that one.

Allow me to pimp www.amdmb.com

That's where I did the majority of my research before building my current system. Nice thorough reviews over there.

Good luck!
 
For the athlon i picked the MSI k7t266 Prot with built on USB 2.0..
 
Howyadoin,

I'm using an AthlonXP 1800+ on a MSI K7N420Pro (nVidia nForce chipset) and I'm very happy with the performance of the Delta 1010...

-Rav
 
I have an XP 1900+ and run it on a Soyo Dragon Plus.. the Dragon Ultra (the DDR 333 version) is also good. Runs stable as a rock all day. I highly recommend it for a number of reasons/features. Also recommend Asus and Gigabyte in general. (Gigabyte's 333 board is one of the better ones.)

WATYF
 
At around $56 the ECS K7S5A is one of the cheapest boards out there but it sure has been great for me. I've built 5 Athlon XP systems around it (home and work). One of them is my audio workstation and it's been great.
 
Does anybody where I can get a Soyo Dragon plus ? And for how much?
 
First of all. I would like to add this !!!DONT SLOUCH ON THE MOTHERBOARD!!!. I dunno if you were planning on it or not but its one thing i see alot of people make mistakes on. They spend all there money on getting the fastest CPU they can and later spend very little on a crappy motherboard. In my opinion, the motherboard should be the first and most important thing to choose when building a computer. Im a firm believer that a computer with a very nice motherboard and a 1.2 or 1.4 MHz cpu will run much better than even a computer with a crappy motherboard and a cpu with a 1.8MHz. Im still running a PIII 800MHz and i can pull off 10 Ren 2 EQs, 4 RCLs, a few audio track plugins and a Timeworks 4080l reverb on a 16 track project (not including a few delays). Well i dunno what you guys with the 1.8GHz Athlon XPs are getting but im pretty sure my PIII800 is standing up pretty good to that.

The motherboard is the central part of everything in the computer, thus everything is plugged into the motherboard. Not only that but the controllers, drivers, and most important the chipset of the motherboard are where you get a huge performance boost. My motherboard is an Asus TUSL2-C mb with the Intel 815e chipset. I swear upon my life that i havnt had a single blue screen since i upgraded. Things run extremely smooth and stable.

My recommendations, get a good brand but also get alot of recommendations from other people. My best source for that kind of stuff is on IRC. Talk to some really good computer techs, and they will tell you. Find some audio channels and ask them what has worked good for them (there are alot of really good recording engineers on irc). Also, i would avoid via chipset especially with anything delta. But i have heard that the newer via chipsets are much more stable and people have loved them, but that is a decision/risk you will have to take. I am not anti VIA or anything so dont get me wrong.

Good luck,

Danny
 
First of all. I would like to add this !!!DONT SLOUCH ON THE MOTHERBOARD!!!. I dunno if you were planning on it or not but its one thing i see alot of people make mistakes on. They spend all there money on getting the fastest CPU they can and later spend very little on a crappy motherboard. In my opinion, the motherboard should be the first and most important thing to choose when building a computer.
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I second this...
Does anybody where I can get a Soyo Dragon [Ultra]?
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Click Me.

Before you buy,.. look up the vendor on Reseller Ratings to make sure they have a good reputation.

WATYF
 
I'll second the KG-7/KG-7 RAID. LOT's of room for memory (4GB DDR). And one of the nicest BIOS' I have ever worked with. Most MoBo's I have used have always needed major tweaking (Memory Slew etc.) to get things right. I don't think anyone should expect getting a MoBo and having it run optimal (regardless of chipset), without at least a little tweaking.

Definitely check out http://www.amdmb.com/ as well as http://www.amdzone.com/index.cfm
 
Somebody recommended the soyo dragon, but it has a Via chipset?????
 
yes... and your point is??? :p

If you've "heard" aboot problems with Via chipsets, then rest assured that those problems are old news. Heck,.. there also used to be "problems" with any AMD processor. Basically if you were building a DAW, you had to use an Intel CPU on an Intel board. But those days are long gone. Compatibility problems are few an far between (if any), and Via now outperforms Intel (chipsets) for most applications...

and then, of course, as everybody knows... AMD smokes Intel (CPUs)... :p but I don't even think I had to say that.. since it's such common knowledge...

:D :cool:

WATYF
 
Still Via makes my blood run cold, if you tell me that you have run AMD plus Soyo and Delta 1010 without problems youll make me a happy camper!!!!!!
 
Vote #3 for the Abit KG7. I just set up my new system built around this board with an AthlonXP 1500. It's like butta.
 
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