What's asus's best afordable mobo?

[Jaksonite4]

I've been goin around to different forum's lately, i'm looking for the perfect mobo for me. I didnt do my research last time and ended up with an ECS K7S5A. Well i've learned my lesson. I have 65 dollars right now and im willing to spend up to $80 on a new mobo. What is the best asus Mobo for that price. My first priority is stability, my second is overclocking. Heres my specs:
AMD XP 1800+
Geforce 2 Mx400 64mb
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo 2
Good cooling (2 case fans, Factory HS w/ artic silver)
80gb Western Digital
400 watt duron PSU
384 mb SDRAM (Going to 256mb DDR pc2100)

All i can say is i'm sick of tryin to fix an unfixable board, i want one that i can put together, have a few fixable problems, and be good to go. I also want to OC to my max with what i have. I've heard good things about asus, do they have the mobo for me?

[Quarter]

At that price range and wanting to OC, your Asus choices are limited. Perhaps a Asus A7N 266-C might fit the bill, they can be found for ~ $90 or so.

[prebon]

Jaksonite4, why not try the A7NX8!

[luddite]

Strange..........I have nothing but praise for a K7S5A, the one I had was excellent given the price and I did manage to get a 1ghtz Duron to run 1250 on it......gave it to my brother and it plays on.
I don't know of ANY boards that do not have their 'glitches'......... maybe an Intel 'boxed' board and maybe a P4 of some description, better yet, maybe it is time to become a 'DELL DUDE' and let them worry about it.

[Jaksonite4]

luddite, Well the majority of the boards are good, the non-defective bunch are excellent, but i was one in the large minority that recieved a defective one, mine unfortunatly can only be fixed by replacement, 3 months of work, and it wont run a single game without error. I would try again, but i dont wanna waste another 65 on a motherboard with so many flaws. Go to the ESC 2002 forum and look, 56 pages of posts last time i checked, lol, they're good for some, but i'll pass

[luddite]

I think if a person buys their computer parts locally, or at the very least, shows a single vendor some measure of loyalty, these 'problems' don't happen so often.
If I had purchased a defective motherboard it would go back for either a replacement, or a refund, my cost in this is shipping one way only.
EVERY manufacturer makes a bad board, from time to time, this is why your relationship with your vendor is important.
Also the ability to troubleshoot a problem is important, there is little sense telling someone your equipment fails without knowing why it fails.
ASUS makes VIA chipset boards, but like ALL VIA chipset boards, they 'have their own way about them'. The SIS board (A7S333) is a good SOLID board (I have one here that I do video editing on) if you can work through it's problems (if interested I can give you a list). The N-Farce boards look interesting, but I would hold off a month or two and let someone else blaze the trail and discover the bugs.

[Billybones]

I have both of the cheapy boards, a K7s5a (which runs perfectly thanks to Cheepomans Bios's) and an ASROCK K7vt2 (which needs a Cheepoman Bios but still runs rock stable)

I like this here ASROCK board, real stable, cheap, but still with some nice features (like a whole bunch of USB ports) but, in all honesty, the only reason I bought these two boards was because I have 2GB of SDRAM and wanted a board that would still be able to use that ram till I go all out with some High Speed Corsair DDR....so, IMO if that is relevant to your situation then I would reccomend the ASROCK, but if you are already DDR'ing then spend the extra cash on a Hardcore ASUS board, you will end up being able to use it for quite a long time (My old A7V133 is still running with a 1800+ proc in it....had that board for ages now, one of the ones without the "." in the revision, but it still runs great)