Anyone will buy a Gigabyte Sis735 board? or ABIT later?

[lsman]

Its from Germany...
GA-7SRX
anyone....? (about US$114)

also there are model GA-7SRXH (about US$128)


Edit:
Abit roadmap show KS7 (finally)

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but the detail link is not good now.

 

[lsman]

GA-7SRXH
- with Creative 4-channel audio + SPDIF
- Dual Bios
- Easy Tune III
- Realtek 10/100 LAN onboard
- FSB and multipler
- change vcore
- Ram voltage
- 3 DDR DIMM max 1.5G

GA-7SRX all of above except with AC97 sound, single BIOS, no LAN

 

[gumbysucks]

Were you expecting ECS prices ?
I would .. I like the idea of a dual bios , fsb , + multiplier

 

[RagingGuardian]

By the time it hits the US the price is gonna be lower, besides it has better features than the ECS board, all of which you'll have to pay for.

 

[WetWilly]

Someone over at OCWorkbench posted the US prices of the Gigabyte boards would be around $80 and $110. Still not bad. It'll definitely be interesting to see what adjustable RAM voltage will do for overclocking. That might explain the 150MHz ceiling with overclocking on the K7S5A. If you've already got a decent sound card and NIC, the basic board would be just fine.

 

[ignorus]

any details on what slots & how many are on it (PCI/AMR/AGP/DDR/SDRAM) ?

 

[WetWilly]

Specs for both boards are 5 PCI/1 AGP/1 AMR slots with 3 DIMM sockets. No SDRAM support. Only difference between the boards like lsman said are the optional onboard Realtek LAN and Creative sound plus DualBIOS on the more expensive board.

 

[lsman]

I hope the flush BIOS process are better than the ECS, otherwise, DualBIOS can save you a lot of time.
The price will be lower by the time (may be early Oct.?) it come to US. And better yet, it was "tested" for half a month by then.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

It's about time a manufacturer told Via to kiss their a$$ and put out a nice 735 solution.

 

[Tom]

Sounds awesome !

 

[WetWilly]

I hope the flush BIOS process are better than the ECS

I'd expect it is. I think it's rather interesting that ECS changed BIOSes from AMI to Award on the 2nd revision of the K7S5A.

 

[WetWilly]

The other thing that'll be interesting to see is whether Gigabyte implements the enhancement outlined over at OCWorkbench that bumps Sandra and Disk Winmark scores by 5%.

 

[lsman]

How about Abit KS7 ?
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the roadmap link seems not working.