Athlon XP1800+ W/K7S5A Mother Board for $159 + $4 Shipping

[Fisheagle]

http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3205151

[Fisheagle]

surreal

Are you licking your chops in anticipation?

OR

Are you blowing chunks in disgust?

Fish

[Gomer]

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t17868.html

Underclocked beat ya to this deal... 11 threads down the page. Thanks for the heads up tho. I think this is going to be my next system. I am still slogging along on an amd 450. I don't need a "power" machine, so this mobo will prolly do the trick.

Anything I should know about this mobo tho?

[samwichse]

Oooo bad question to ask

Now everyone who ever got a bad board will come and say "boo"

Most of us though... really like it.

Never seen a board as cheap offer the performance/options of this board. 5 PCI, 4x AGP, chipset second only to the kt266A, onboard LAN and audio, completely jumperless (except clear CMOS and keyboard power on), processor socket clear on 3 sides, either DDR or sdram, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Sam

P.S. Did I mention it's a cool black PCB?

[hifi]

Surreal is definatly wetting herself over that one!!! LOL

[Gomer]

Sounds good to me... does anyone know if this comes with heatsink and fan?

[mikey76]

Will it be a stable config with PC 133 SDRAM and Win 2000?

I mean, damn, compared to my FIC 503+ with K6-300 Win98SE and 256 mb PC 100 ram which I cant' run SB16 sound cause it crashes and stuff like that....almost anything would be better.

I was really geared up to get a KK266 with Athlon TBird 1.33 cause of all the "troubles" being reported and experienced with the XP chips and 333 boards. Don't know much about the K7S5A boards.

Enlighten me.

Please.


Mikey

[TOAD6147]

Like Sam said, all owners that have had a bad experience with the board will come by to say.........."BOO!" That said, I have to admit that after twice RMA'ing one of the two I now have, they have been running fine so far as they can with only CPU, RAM, Video, PCI NIC*, and and a floppy drive for the Tinux OS they operate on to crack ECCp. They don't even reside in cases and have never had hdd's connected to them so my experience with them is limited to that condition. (*the on-board NIC is not recognized by this OS and I haven't advanced far enough in my Linux skills to update the OS with the relevant drivers for it) Anyway, if you go to a search window in this forum and type 'K7S5A', you will probably be surprised with the number of posts there are concering it. Seems the capacitors are not first calss and, therefore, susceptible to low-grade P/S units. After you read all that has been said about it then it's your decision if it's worth the gamble. Bottom line: I would more than likely buy another one myself considering the value/bang for the buck.

Are you blowing chunks in disgust?

No way! I love that board. What an awesome deal!
I have no complaints with it, although I did add a sound card because the onboard is pretty cheesy..

I got this bundle from Frys with a 1.4 Athlon for 149.00, I love it.
Yep an AMD fan comes with it.

Hey watch it hifi!

What Toad sez goes.. Bang for the Buck Boys