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I currently have a SY-K7VTA Pro Motherboard and I have a chance to purchase a ELITEGROUP K7S5A-PRO Socket A Motherboard at a good price. I would like to know if it would be to my advantage to make the switch and what would be the plus side if I change :confused:
Do you have a prticular reason why you are planning to upgrade (added features, problems etc.)? Or is someone just trying to sell?
I belive that I'm restricted to a Athlon 1.3GHz CPU and it looks like the ELITEGROUP K7S5A-PRO can take a much larger one!
Your current board supports up to an XP 2100 (see specs here)
The advantage the ECS has over what you are using is ddr and the ECS will take up a 2600+ 266 cpu. The ECS you mention I believe has usb2 support also. I have both boards (ECS K7S5A non pro, Soyo K7VTA) in a couple of my older computers, and they have been good (basic) main boards. It depends I guess, on what you are wanting to do with your computer. I have an AMD 2100+, 768 meg pc100 in the SOYO and an AMD 1700+, 512 meg pc2100 on the ECS, I cannot tell much difference between them. I would give the advantage in this case to the ECS.