A7V333

Advantages: Cheap, Reliable, AMD board
Disadvantages: Socket A, so wont work with Intel cpu's

...I bought my ASUS A7V333 for £85 online. It boasted many modern features, a good BIOS, and the ability to add loads of RAM. The ASUS motherboard costs a little less than some other motherboards, mainly because it is a Socked A board. This means that the only processors it can take are AMD Socket A processors like the Athlon 1800 that I have in mine. The board boasts the standard 5 PCI slots for all your Modem and network cards, and has the newest AGP X4 AGP slot, meaning new cards like the nVidia GeForce 4 cards can run to their full capacity. One nice little touch on the A7V333, is that in addition to a top of the range AMD Athlon XP2200+, you could also have 3GB of PC2700 333MHZ RAM. Unfortunately since 256megs of that RAM costs about £60, i work that out to be between £500 and £600 for 3 Gigs. Ive also seen 4 fan power slots...

LimpBizkitUK 20.07.2002 · Read review
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...I have an Asus A7V333 motherboard and as far as i can tell, i have had no issues with it at all. there are plenty of features, almost too many. it has a few problems, as it still uses old connections, like the AGP 4x slot, which makes it very difficult to upgrade the graphics card now. it also doesnt have sata. other than that, the motherboard is brilliant. it has 5 pci slots which were useful as i had a lot of cards. The other upgrade issue with this motherboard is that is is using an old socket type, Socket A, which makes it difficult to upgrade the processor and to find a better fan. i am also happy with the fact that it is an ATX board, so it has lots of space for upgrades, if you can find them. This motherboard is great value for money and is a budget-board. probably good as a starter motherboard....

Matheusl02 16.02.2009 · Read review
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Good performance for a good price

Advantages: Good Athlon Performance at a cheap price
Disadvantages: Lacking some features

...The Asus A7V333 cost me £80 over the internet. It is a Socket A board, and will take AMD Duron (600 Mhz +) and AMD Athlon XP (XP1500 and beyond). I run an XP 2000 in mine. The board comes with driver software and a few utilities. These mainly consist of monitoring utilities (eg you can monitor temperature, fan speed voltage etc). The board runs on the VIA KT333 chipset. It has 3 slots for DDR RAM. If you use PC2100 RAM, it can take a maximum 3GB. If you use the faster PC2700 RAM, it can only take up to 2GB. It has space for 5 PCI cards and an AGP graphics card. The AGP can run at a maximum 4x. Other features include the usual legacy ports: 2 x PS/2 for keyboard and mouse, 2 x serial, 1 parallel. Also included are 4 USB 1.1 ports, with an additional 2 ports that take up a slot (instead of a PCI card) that can be used as...

os7210 20.11.2002 · Read review
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Fast enough for your needs

Advantages: Fast, cheap, easy to install.
Disadvantages: Gets very hot.

...The AMD Athlon XP 2000+ actually runs at 1.67 Ghz. It is named the 2000+ because that is the speed of the equivalent Pentium 4 (2.0Ghz) it claims to beat. Mine came in the official package, complete with processor, heatsink with fan, certificate of authenticity and installation instructions. Installation is the same as for any socket processor. Place processor in socket, push down ZIF lever and there it is! Add the heatsink on top - which was very difficult as it was an extremely tight fit and felt as though the motherboard would buckle under the strain. The heatsink has one of those sticky patches underneath to help conduct the heat from the processor. When it was all installed I booted up and the processor and speed were automatically found. Mine is in an Asus A7V333 motherboard and after a couple of weeks of monitoring...

os7210 18.11.2002 · Read review
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