Best socket A/462 motherboard?

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Artex

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Wasn't sure where to throw this, but I'm a massive retro collector/hobbyist and am starting to look at some classic AMD socket A/462 motherboards as I skipped over these back in the day. Can anyone recommend some classic boards of the time?
 
I 5th the Abit-NF7-S. Great board for it time. Too bad Abit bit the bullet. They were my go to manufacturer for MB.
 
Awesome! I just picked up a new old stock Nf7-s Rev 2.0 on ebay!
 
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Awesome! I just picked up a new old stock Nf7-s Rev 2.0 on ebay!
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Even though it may be new (unused), check that broad carefully for bulging capacitors. They can and do go bad just while sitting.

While on subject, of the boards in this ilk that I ran back in the day the Soltek FRN2 was my favorite. Still have one running after 13 years. And I was not kind to it. Second would be Abit NF7-S. The ASUS A7N8X was a very stable & feature filled one to. Just not conducive to overclocking.
 
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Even though it may be new (unused), check that broad carefully for bulging capacitors. They can and do go bad just while sitting.

While on subject, of the boards in this ilk that I ran back in the day the Soltek FRN2 was my favorite. Still have one running after 13 years. And I was not kind to it. Second would be Abit NF7-S. The ASUS A7N8X was a very stable & feature filled one to. Just not conducive to overclocking.
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In my post above (#2), the Soltek & the Asus were the boards I had in mind when I wrote the "more to come". I just couldn't recall the model numbers at the time.
 
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They look ok to me. I guess we'll see!
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They do look good. Nice score! Hope the price was not too high. I know demand for working hardware of this era is elevated right now.

If it were me, I'd replace that CMOS battery and remove the northbridge cooler, lap it, and apply some premium TIM.

Let us know how it goes.
 
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Abit Nf7-S with nforce soudstorm...happy days :D
Be careful when you will install cooler... cpu can be easily damaged.
 
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Best 3 I used were:
Abit NF7-S v.2
DFI Lanparty NF2 UltraB
DFI NF2 Ultra-Infinity

I thought about the A7N8X-E Deluxe but it was expensive back in the day, especially when the Ultra-Infinity board was $40 cheaper.
 
I've still got a family member with a computer running an Abit NF7-S v2 w/ an overclocked 1700+ in it. It's been running that way since I built it in 2003/4.
 
Another, if you need ISA, is the Abit KT7A / KT7A-RAID boards. With a modded BIOS, they support the Barton CPUs and with a CPU pin mod (I do the mod by jumpering pins via single wire strands in the socket) they also support the higher multipliers.

Great board to do ~2.4Ghz with a Barton and still have ISA.
 
I am thinking of either snagging an NF7S combo on ebay or upgrading this Alienware tower I got last year. Its the original Alienware Aurora tower with the sliding door.
 
Still looking for a boxed NF7-S. I have two A7N8X Deluxe, one boxed.
 
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