Hardware upgrade

[Bob Raymond]

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