Need help choosing a Mobo for AMD Athlon(TM) XP2400+

[Rhafe]

Hello, looking for any reccomendation on purchasing a Motherboard for AMD XP Athlon 2400+ preferably in the price range of 90-100. I am canadian so I cannot use newegg.com if anyone could link me to a site i could use a preferably to the motherboard I should get on the site it would be much appreciated, i'm looking to possibly get a Nforce2 motherboard.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Home.jsp

That site ships to canada, which I would like to use.

I am also looking to get 1 gig of ram around 240ish dollars that I could put into my new Mobo, if anyone could reccomend any ram on the site as well that would be great, thanks for your time.

-Mike

 

[CleanSlate]

nforce2 boards are the only way to fly with athlon xp's... by far.

with that said Abit is probably the way to go... if you meant 90 to 100 dollars AMERICAN then yea Abit. Otherwise if you meant canadian you can get a shuttle for around 55 american (this one I have in my sig) and it does dual channel. Only thing I dont like about it is that the ram voltage is a bit low (can only do .1 above spec) and the agp voltage only goes to .1 above spec as well.. Other than that it rocks for 55 buckz.

~Adam

 

[Rhafe]

Yea, 90-120ish american is fine, here's the "Abit" boards they have listed

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Search.jsp

any chance you could help me in picking one out that would be suitable for my system? And could hold the 1 gig pc2700 ram that I plan in getting, still not sure which ram to get though

 

[SJetski71]

This NF7-S is the one you want, best out of the bunch: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240109

For ram you can go the budget route on pc3200 (Crucial/Corsair value/Geil cas2.5 etc) or for slightly pricier (and better) TWINX1024-3200C2, lower mem timings benefit Socket A athlons more so than P4's so steer clear from pc4000 Cas 3-4-4-8 type memory.

 

[Rhafe]

Awesome, ordering that ram and that motherboard tonight, thanks alot for the help. I was pretty clueless ;/

Edit: It appears that motherboard is out of stock, any other suggestions of a motherboard that would be just as good if not better?

I was thinking of going with this one but no idea if its any good or not, its a bit cheaper any other reccomendations or would this one be good? it is in stock

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=241092