AMD mobos with ATA133?

[Mavrick007]

Which mobos out right now have the ability to do ATA133? I know Abit KR7a-Raid will do it on the Raid controller, but that is about it.

 

[AndyHui]

ASUS A7A266-E...based on the ALi Magik 1 Rev c0 stepping.

A much better performer than the original ALi Magik 1 chipset. Stable, reliable, comparatively no-frills board.

 

[Boonesmi]

same with Iwill xp333 based on the same chipset as the board listed above

plus you can find it for less then $100 + shipping (i think newegg has it for $99)

 

[Mavrick007]

What is the Ali Magik 1 chipset like so far? How stable or fast is it compared to the KT266a? Hehe I have had bad experiences with my old mobo and the old Ali Aladin 5.

 

[AndyHui]

Stability is very good. It doesn't seem to have various issues like VIA chipsets, although the AGP is known for not liking ATi video cards.

Performance wise, the latest revision of the ALi Magik 1 chipset (rev c0) is within 1-3% of the VIA KT266A.

Whatever you do, just don't pair off the chipset with SDRAM....that will kill performance, regardless of the chipset revision.

Do you really need ATA133 though? Unless you are going to purchase a hard drive larger than 127GB, there is little advantage in going to ATA133.

 

[Mavrick007]

Why is it that a larger than 127Gig hd would take advantage of the ATA133, but not say a 60Gig or less? I have everything ready(including 512Megs DDR ram) except a motherboard and cpu for an upgrade so right now it's just basically the mobo that I'm looking for cause I'm probably going to get an XP 1800+.

 

[AndyHui]

Previous standards, PIO, ATA33, ATA66, ATA100, are limited to handling 127GB hard drives. These protocols are incompatible with larger hard drives. This has nothing to do with speed.

ATA133 provides a maximum burst rate of 133MB/s. Modern drives are only just now exceeding the maximum bandwidth of ATA33 on STR, with cache burst rates just on ATA66 limits. There's little justification to go to ATA100, let alone ATA133.

 

[Mavrick007]

I was thinking that myself that ide drives don't even come close to scsi setups in terms of speed. I really wanted an Abit Kr7a-raid with ata133 and was going to get 2 ata133 60gig drives to do raid, but hardware and things aside, I don't really need it right now and I don't want an expensive board that is old with little use when the new cpus come out.

I think I'm going to get the Soltek SL-75DRV2 mobo. It can only do ata100 but it's a good deal here, good overclocker, stable and I can put my money towards a better cpu or vid card. I will probably do another upgrade after Clawhammer comes out anyhow and supposedly the KT266a boards just might have support for the Thoroughbred.