Abit NF7-M Motherboard

Pros: Well priced board with a good onboard video solution.
Cons: Could use more in the way of extras; Firewire, Serial ATA, etc.

After building my dream system for the Pentium 4, I wanted to branch out and try my hand at an AMD system. Up until this time, every computer I had built had the Intel processor in it, and I figured it was time to try the AMD. I knew I wanted a 2500 ...

Pros: Overall great board, loads of features, + looks good.
Cons: Onboard video doesnt like high FSB (344 +)

This is a great motherboard, loads of overclock features (FSB, Multiplyer, voltage etc)everything works top quality.

Sadly when it comes to overclocking the onboard video is the weak link in the chain, with my brothers video card this motherboard is able to overclock a Barton XP2500 to 400 fsb (makes it a 3200), with no problems, -able to fully run burn-in tests. with onboard video in place the system is lucky to make it to 344 FSB without losing frames (I've tried voltage increase and everything)

Only reason why I got onboard video was because I couldnt afford a half-decent video card along with the CPU, motherboard and Ram. Once I get paid this month I should be able to get a video card, so the problem will be solved