ABIT KR7A-RAID, Any known problems / stability issues?

[LiQiCE]

I just ordered an ABIT KR7A-RAID motherboard to go along with an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ ... The last ABIT board I owned, the BE6 v1.0 had numerous problems because it was the first motherboard that ABIT had implemented its HighPoint ATA/66 controller on. I had nothing but problems with the board and swore I would never buy another ABIT board. However, the KR7A-RAID is the only board that met all of my requirements in a motherboard (ie. 6 PCI Slots, Onboard RAID, 4 DDR slots).

I'm just wondering if there have been a lot of problems with this board? I know a lot of people had problems with other ABIT boards because there was an enormous RMA rate. Curious if this has been the same with the KR7A-RAID as well. Thanks to anyone who can provide me with help.

BTW- Currently I use an ASUS P3V4X VIA Apollo Pro 133a with a Pentium III 600E overclocked to 800EB and it has been extremely stable for me, can I expect the same stability out of this combo or should I have gone ASUS again? (Even though it doesnt have 6 PCI slots).

Thanks!

 

[billyjak]

Mines running rock stable with a 1900+ in it.
I run at 1703 for now.
I need a better fan, but am not to concered as it has all the speed I need for now.
I wouldn't worry about it, I said the same thing about Abit boards, I had the KT7 Raid board before this and it also was an extremely stable board, their quality went up a notch.
They are using bigger capcitors and update their bios pretty regularly.
I'm using the 6N modified on Pauls sight. I had to rename it to KR7A _6n.bin and it works perfectly woth the ver 2.3 Hotpoint drivers.

 

[LiQiCE]

Cool, thanks for the info!

 

[billyjak]

Abit takes the Gold award, enough said.