AMD 760/761 Chipset Board Question... PLZ Help??

[GetFunk]

Ok, fellow AMD freakies, whats the Best and fastest DDR board that you know of... I heard its the ASUS A7M.. I em also considering the kt133a chipset. Either way i have to buy new ram, so whats the best rought. Should i wait for DDR and get the kt133a, or jump in and get DDR now.... I em buying next week so all the help you can dish is greatly helpfullll.. PEACE

 

[rkoenn]

I am doing something similar right now. I currently am running two MSI K7T Turbos, one with Raid and one without and am very happy with both. Because I own a small home computer business and want to get some DDR experience, I am planning on purchasing a DDR board in the next couple of days. DDR memory is now about $115 for 256MB and PC133 CAS2 is about $85, so some price difference there. Board is about $30-35 more as well. My current MSI boards are great and rock solid. I have considered the MSI AMD 760 but it doesn't have RAID so it is out. Neither does the Asus. My readings seem to show the Via KT266 chipset pretty much up to the performance levels of the AMD, both seem to eke out the lead over the other in various test reports I have read, pretty much running about neck to neck. The Via includes the newer peripherals chip and bus structure as well. I am pretty well looking at the MSI Via board. Just my thoughts.

 

[GetFunk]

Did they get the resister mess figured out?? and boises up to steam. I heard alot of horror stories about this board in early revisions. If thye have them worked out. I would got for it. Just make sure you dont get a early revision, like 1.00.