On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:05, Roger Sherman wrote:
> If it's no trouble, yeah, that would be great! He sounds like quite
> the authority. I did see Soyo on the recommended list...I can't
> remember, I think they might have had onboard sound, and I'm
> determined to use my SB Live....
Well, I'm a Soyo fan, but wasn't real thrilled when they started
integrating sound. Went ahead an got a k7vta pro almost a year ago an
it's been flawless, even tho I'm oc'd to the hilt. Anyhow the onboard
AC97 works great... I was plesantly surprised. NBD tho to use a
different card, the onboard sound is easily disabled by a bios
setting. I tried it, it works. Both the k7vta and Dragon boards are
AMD and LinuxHardware approved for the high end Athlons. So it's not
just me that likes 'em ;)
The original poster mentioned expense. The k7vta pro is very
inexpensive and works great with any old sdram. One thing Soyo
boards are noted for is great ram performance. I'm usin ancient
pc100 sdram at 135Mhz Cas2 4bank interleaved. Runs memtest86 or
cpuburn (burnK7 and burnMMX) endlessly with -0- errors. Competes
favorably with many DDR systems.
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