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ASRock K7S41GX Socket A SIS741GX AGP UND on board LAN USB VGA Motherboard
- £28.68ex vat
- £33.70inc vat
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- manufacturer #: K7S41GX
- quickfind code: 102909
- 62 in stock for next day delivery.
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Excellent budget motherboard
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Windows XPThis m/b is actually a budget brand produced by ASUS. It has ASUS quality without any expensive features like overclocking. I have used MANY(20+) of these for basic home/office systems and have never had a problem with any. CPUs have varied from Duron 1800 to Athlon 3200 (fsb=333 version) In every case it has worked first time, and no 'funnies' with XP.
It's not a games machine using the onboard graphics, but they are fine for home/office use.
All in all a VERY good buy, better than PCCHips or ECS, and ususally a bit cheaper. If you're in the market for a budget system while socket A is still around - go for it!
K7S41GX FSB
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Windows XPDerek White is right about the maximum FSB of 333 MHz on this board if you only set the FSB with the FSB jumpers. However if you use the BIOS to set the FSB you can go to 400MHz and beyond. Currently using a salvaged 400 FSB Athlon 3200 on this board with no problems.
After years of avoiding Asrock I now think they are brilliant mobos and just glad that someone is still making Socket A mobos. Thanks Asrock, and Ebuyer of course!
Long Lasting AND Quality!
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Windows XP
I just wanted to mention this, but i've had this motherboard for almost 2 years now (when socket A/462's were more common - cost 65 quid then!) - and i have absolutly no complaint at all!
I've had it running with an Athlon 2400 CPU with an Arctic Cooling heatsink/fan (very silent), 1gb ram, ATi Radeon 9600 Pro, pata/ide disks on Win XP.
I am now looking to upgrade as socket A cpu's seem to be going out of fashion right now so i might get a new mobo and cpu but i will definatly try and go for an AsRock (Asus) + AMD Combo if possible - any recommendations?
Stable and Adaptable
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Windows XPGot this last week to replace a dead PCChips M848ALU - what a budget and rubbish board that was! Anyway, so far this is stable and easily overclockable. I didn`t need to install any new drivers or whatnot, and it has 4xUSB 2.0 at the rear and 2xUSB 2.0 slots for connection to the front (if your case supports it - most do).
The FSB and multipliers can both be massively adjusted, though the FSB is through a BIOS setting and the multiplier by using jumpers on the board. I have 2x512MB DDR3200 with an AMD XP 3200+ Venice running at 11(multi) x 200(FSB) - i.e. all running at default recommended speeds. As noted above/below, set the 200FSB manually in BIOS (along with USB2.0) as there`s no auto or default method - hence some people`s problems! The RAM and CPU FSB can be independently adjusted in 1 MHz increments, which is nice.
Oh yeah - it`s micro ATX so you get to save some space if you used to have a full sized board...
Good quality Socket A board
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Windows XPGot this board and plonked in an old Athlon TBird 1GHz 100FSB and 512MB of corsair value PC3200 DDR400 RAM and this baby ran like a dream!
Very little configuring to do in the BIOS, however, at first my RAM was only running at DDR333 speeds. Clocking the FSB up 10 MHZ to try and up the RAM clock a bit mysteriously unlocked the DDR400 option in the BIOS, so now I have my RAM running nicely at DDR420!
I downloaded the latest drivers from the ASrock website and had no VGA issues. The onboard VGA is rather sucky, but can still run basic 3D like Google Earth, which is good enough for web browsing and office apps.
Some nice options in the BIOS, however CPU-ID readouts have some information missing, which can be annoying, but thats not a big deal.
If you want a socket A mobo to repair an old system, this mobo supports alot of socket A CPU's (Check ASrock website for exact models) and worked out of the bow without any fuss for me!
Works with vista
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Windows VistaThis works with the new windows vista, one problem, you will get warning messages at startup for the graphics card, so you will need a vista compatible graphics card also you need to install all of the motherboard drivers while windows xp, or lower are installed, but hey it works, the graphics are ok just games won't be in very good quality and you can't use things such as dvd maker and a few other programs coming with vista, so basically you need a new graphics card and you can download newer drivers from the net.
Very good
This was a replacement for an old fry-ed msi board. My first try at changing a mobo and swapping over a CPU. Not a problem at all, the manual was very helpful and everything went without a hitch. I have replaced the ram before, graphics cards and sound cards etc. I think I'm ready for the full new build now I'm filled with confidence.
Great mobo at a very good price which will keep my old PC going for a lot longer.
K7S41 - K7S41GX FSB
This may be a little late, but - The K7S41GX has a maximum FSB of 333Mhz.
The K7S41 has a maximum of 400Mhz.
cheap,reliable but not higly performing mobo
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Windows XPThis is a great motherboard.PC technicians usually recommend the mobo to build cheap systems based on socket A .PRETTY STABLE, no errors, no problems.
But...
Remember that performance of the chipset is not very good.Having external graphic card,I checked the mobo running some benchmarks.The Asrock was around 15-20% slower than Asrock based on KT400A or 25-35% slower than branded mobos on nForce2Ultra (Epox,Soltek).
However, this is still an excellent choice to build office systems - just simply add duron 1800,512mb ddr cheap ram and you have got quite efficient computer, much faster than most computers with Intel Celeron.
hmm
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Not ApplicableI still have a spare socket A system running with an XP3200 and 2GB DDr400..absolutely flies on XP Pro and CS Source (ATIX850 Pro AGP)..anyone else geting fed up of all this dual core crap ?..who actually uses it ?
all my apps run fine...whole rig less than 300 quid...socket A ,754, 939 and 478 still the most stable Ive ever used..775 and AM2 so full of bugs with hardware...suck big time ...my 10 cents
