A decent socket A mobo. No laughing now! My trusty old KR7A has died on me and I need to replace it. Cant afford a new setup, and I dont need that much power these days. My old 2400+ is still more than enough for my needs. I will prob get one on ebay, but I am so much out of touch these days I dont even know what to look for. I am having to use Mrs Berkswolf system with my HD in it for the minute, and she aint too happy! So point me in the right direction please guys.

Is Big Steve still around these days? or has he faded away like meself?

Abit NF7 if you dont need anything special then any will do.

Im still a big fan of the NF7 range, though finding SoA stuff now is harder than one might imagine.

The Asrock board ebuyer sell looks pretty steady, nowt flash, but it has sata

Havent seen Big Steve in a while...

As for motherboards, the epox 8RDA+ or abit NF7-S were popular.  Or a DFI one, cant remember the model.

An Asrock board would be fine for your needs, Im running on an Asrock K7S8X Socket A and thats never been problematic in the two/three years Ive owned it.

Hi again. I have just won an ebay auction for an Abit NF7-SG2. Price was Ã,£22-50, + Ã,£5 for postage. Sound resonable? Anyone got one? Can I use a standard ( not SATA) hard drive 0n a SATA board connector, and if so would I need an adapter?

I used the Socket A ASUS K8U-X. Very good board, onboard sata raid too.

Cheers
Tongy

Quote from: Clockd 0NeAn Asrock board would be fine for your needs, Im running on an Asrock K7S8X Socket A and thats never been problematic in the two/three years Ive owned it.

I used to run one of those, great little board. Does the job nicely.

Quote from: BerkswolfHi again. I have just won an ebay auction for an Abit NF7-SG2. Price was Ã,£22-50, + Ã,£5 for postage. Sound resonable? Anyone got one? Can I use a standard ( not SATA) hard drive 0n a SATA board connector, and if so would I need an adapter?

Thats a tidy little board Berskie, good price too I think. Yes you can run ATA HDDs on a SATA board (it has both connector types) so no worries.