ABIT KT7A RAID VIA KT-133A ???

[freshspace]

Hey Folks,

Anyone have any experience with the Abit KT7A Raid board? I am considering purchasing one from Newegg from the "refurbished" section for $45 delivered. I will only get the bare board. Has anyone purchased a "refurbished" board from Newegg? How is it?

 

[yodayoda]

dude, are you stupid? the KT133a is an ancient chipset, the KT7a is a buggy buggy board, and SDRAM has gone the way of the dodo. that 686b southbridge is the culprit for the instability btw.

 

[metallibloke]

Originally posted by: yodayoda
the KT7a is a buggy buggy board

I run a KT7A-RAID board (bought brand new, not refurbished), and have never had any trouble with it at all. On what evidence do you base this comment?

Sure its an ancient chipset, theres no point getting it these days.

 

[JustStarting]

I've owned 2 and they are buggy. You can get them to work ok with a lot of tweaking. SBLive! and USB problems will arise if you use them with the raid function (IRQ sharing). Like I said, it will be fine, if your willing to manually assign IRQ's. Even my KR7A didn't like my SBlive!, and the KR7A's are also known to have problems with Audigy.

 

[metallibloke]

Yeah, I heard about the audigy problems. I use an SBLive card and USB devices, and have my HD on the raid controller and havent had any trouble. Curious.

 

[freshspace]

Hey you guys,

Thanks for the reply. I just got 384mb of pc133 (3x128mb) memory of Kingston ValueRam for $5 each after rebate. So, I wanted to use it. I wanted to go DDR board, but the memory price is still too high. Besides, I'm not a real gamer, so I hear from others here that there will really be no difference in speed. Is this true? How about K7T Turbo2, rather than the Abit? Is this a better board, or is there still a problem because of the kt133a chipset? I am going for kt133a chipset boards, because I can use my SDRAMs and get Athlon XPs.

 

[JustStarting]

lot of people like the Iwill boards at the time.