I currently have an Athlon XP 1600 AGOIA cpu so it's supposed to overclock well, good crucial ddr and an MSI k7t266 Pro-RU mobo. I also have a nice ti4600 video card, in short, all good quality components that SHOULD work well togather.
Ever since i've bought the MSI mobo, i've had nothing but troubles with this. I bought an SBLIVE Platinum, nothing but troubles, took it out. Had some issues with ram, spent days figuring that out. As far as overclocking is concerned, it sux royally. Heck, the second i try overclocking only the video card a little bit, the thing crashes and freezes. Got myself 2 identical hard drives to setup the onboard raid on it, it sucked bad on that too, windows would continously crash. Have tried every bios update etc. etc.
I've finally decided that i want a new mobo. I hate my MSI. So i want to go for an EPOX since i've heard that they are good with overclocking. Here are the things that it must have:
1. Good overclocking abilities.
2. Not crash when i install my SBLIVE platinum.
3. Raid capabilities (not a must, but would like to have it, but no "LITE" versions)
4. No more AMI bios, definetelly prefer Award.
5. USB 2.0 would be nice.
I know that this is question i should be asking a sales specilist a newegg or something, but i wanted your opinon since you guys might have used certain EPOX mobos that you liked. I looked on their website and it get's confusing at times trying to decide on a mobo.
Please let me know what you guys think and if their KT266 or 366 chipsets are compatible with my sound card or not.
Thanks a lot,
kzaman