New board for my aging T-Bred

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Serban Andrei Dumitrescu

Hi guys,

to my greatest misfortune my computer's Epox mainboard said goodbye the
other day, most likely cause being the bloated and partially leaking
capacitors I discovered upon closer inspection.

Now I need to get my PC up & running again asap, and was wondering what
new mainboard I should get. I can't afford a more comprehensive upgrade
right now, so it will have to be a board which supports my Athlon XP
"2000+" (the salesperson said it was a T-Bred B, but I think it's rather
an "A" because despite sufficient cooling it runs rather hot at around
70°C) and [parallel] ATA133. I'm willing to ditch my PC2100 RAM for higher
clocked chips to match a higher FSB, all other components will have to be
"transplanted" though.

Could somebody tell me which chipset I should go for, maybe even a
specific board/manufacturer? I've been out of touch with the development
of this segment since about 2002 when I put this PC together.

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
TIA,

Andrei
 
Hi guys,

to my greatest misfortune my computer's Epox mainboard said goodbye the
other day, most likely cause being the bloated and partially leaking
capacitors I discovered upon closer inspection.

Now I need to get my PC up & running again asap, and was wondering what
new mainboard I should get. I can't afford a more comprehensive upgrade
right now, so it will have to be a board which supports my Athlon XP
"2000+" (the salesperson said it was a T-Bred B, but I think it's rather
an "A" because despite sufficient cooling it runs rather hot at around
70°C) and [parallel] ATA133. I'm willing to ditch my PC2100 RAM for higher
clocked chips to match a higher FSB, all other components will have to be
"transplanted" though.

Could somebody tell me which chipset I should go for, maybe even a
specific board/manufacturer? I've been out of touch with the development
of this segment since about 2002 when I put this PC together.

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
TIA,

Andrei
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Go take a look on newegg or mwave. These boards are getting scarse,
so your choice will likely be whatever you can get.
 
Serban Andrei Dumitrescu said:
Hi guys,

to my greatest misfortune my computer's Epox mainboard said goodbye the
other day, most likely cause being the bloated and partially leaking
capacitors I discovered upon closer inspection.

Now I need to get my PC up & running again asap, and was wondering what
new mainboard I should get. I can't afford a more comprehensive upgrade
right now, so it will have to be a board which supports my Athlon XP
"2000+" (the salesperson said it was a T-Bred B, but I think it's rather
an "A" because despite sufficient cooling it runs rather hot at around
70°C) and [parallel] ATA133. I'm willing to ditch my PC2100 RAM for higher
clocked chips to match a higher FSB, all other components will have to be
"transplanted" though.

Could somebody tell me which chipset I should go for, maybe even a
specific board/manufacturer? I've been out of touch with the development
of this segment since about 2002 when I put this PC together.

All suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
TIA,
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Same thing happened to me recently - that's an Epox and a Biostar
motherboard that have let me down in the last 4-5 years, I suspect due to
the capacitors. Anyway I replaced it with a PCCHIPS M848ALU (v2.1) from
Ebuyer for the princely sum of £17.86 plus VAT.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X2
92ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=100466
It's actually not bad, I gained 6channel audio, onboard LAN, AGP8x, and a
400Mhz FSB - but lost S3 sleep state and it does not handle asychronous
memory / CPU speeds well - in fact it's slower when the memory is set to a
higher frequency! Ebuyer may ship to your location or find similar where you
are.
GTS
 
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