Thanks, I've never liked the SiS chipsets and don't have much experience with the Ali chipsets. Well, hopefully, I'll be posting from the new/upgraded/improved/wiz-bang box in a few days. Hopefully it will be a positive post and not a plea for help. :)
Jim On Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:57, Bob Raymond wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:10, m.w.chang wrote: > > I would never trust VIA chipset for serious work. Grab a board that use > > intel chipset, like i845g that supports 333Mhz clock for RAM. Couldn't > > quite remember. > > Remember, VIA KT333 is an Athlon chipset, where he really has no other > cost-effective options except for Ali and SiS, where there isn't so much > selection, and AMD, which is a bit on the expensive end. VIA seems to > have improved. I've had no problems with my KT133A board (an EPoX > 8KTA3Pro board). Abit is considered good, but my mother's BG-7 (an > Intel 845G based board) has had nothing but problems, some Windows > related, but others such as absolute incompatiblity with several > graphics cards we've thrown at it, and it's got terrible recovery (have > to reenter CPU speed) from power outages. > > Bob Raymond > > > Jim Conner wrote: > > > Well, pending an unforeseen emergency expense, I plan on upgrading my > > > aging(ok, ancient) hardware. The motherboard I plan on getting is a > > > Abit KX7-333. It uses the VIA KT333 and VT8233A chipsets. I've done > > > some research and it seems like it will work fine with the latest > > > kernels. Reviews have it as a decent, stable performer. I just wonder > > > if anyone here has had some experience/opinions using this board or > > > these chipsets. > > > > > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- 11:42pm up 1:03, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.17, 0.18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Caldera W3.1 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
