Hardware upgrade

[Jim Conner]

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
>
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