New board for my aging T-Bred

[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

 

[Chris Hill]

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

Go take a look on newegg or mwave. These boards are getting scarse,
so your choice will likely be whatever you can get.

 

[GTS]

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,

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