ATi-AMD* A troubling relation?

[dbal]

Considering AMD as a candidate cpu for my upgrade, I have heard around (and in the forums) that it has been associated with compatibility issues to ATi cards causing several malfunctions and problems (maybe ATi causes trouble to AMD don't know, but my Radeon works fine with P3 under WinXP). Would u rate this statement as true or rumours and certain configurations' issues? I ask because at this first stage of the upgrade (cpu-mboard-memory) the Radeon is planned to stay at its place...! Should I be held back from choosing AMD by this fact and consider it as a negative point in the overall comparison to Intel's P4?Thanx in advance and happy new year!!

 

[Menacer]

I've never heard such a thing.. I have however, heard of problems with the VIA 686b south bridge and the SBLive! sound card series. You might want to keep that in mind during your upgrade that you could possibly get some conflictions with your sound card.

The Radeon line, I've yet to run into problems with on AMD systems. I'm running an AMD DDR system (DFI AK76-SN) and both a Radeon LE and a Radeon 8500 have run beautifully on it.

My friend has used both a DFI AK76-SN and Gigabyte GA-7DXR and has had absolutely no problems with either his Radeon 64VIVO or his Radeon 8500 (both in either board)

My Radeon LE also worked just fine in my roomate's MSI KT266 motherboard that he won from AMD.

 

[rbV5]

Both the AIW Radeon and Radeon 64DDR VIVO work fine in my AMD VIA rig.(w/SBlaster)

 

[HarryBeanbag]

I have used 2 different amd 1.2tbirds with ati rage 128 cards and with radeon aiw
both have worked fine,
but yes, I will second the sb live caution.
My sound blaster didnt work with the southbridge of the very popular amd kt133a chipset

 

[whalen]

<< My sound blaster didnt work with the southbridge of the very popular amd kt133a chipset >>



The 686B southbridge is still in use. It isn't limited to the KT133A chipset.

 

[ZenOps]

The tradition of SB conflicting with VIA continues. I have installed several SB Audigys in 686B chipsets. Every single time so far, upon reboot of installing the drivers I get a BSOD in WindowsXP. Once I install it the second time, everything seems to be fine.

 

[Killrose]

I don't know where you heard this crap, but it's total bullsht.

 

[AA0]

686B has never caused bluescreens with SB cards, I suspect you have another problem. VIA isn't the only one to get hit by the Live! cards, just the most famous.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

The prob with the SBLive cards had to do with encoding / decoding of digital music, I thought, with the Via 686b SB.

 

[CurtOien]

I have an AMD T-bird @ 1462 and a Radeon 64DDR with no problems.

 

[Menacer]

From what I remember of the problem, the SBLive! and 686b problem stems from the fact that the SBLive! card series runs just a wee bit out of PCI spec. The 686b is very strict with how it handles the PCI bus (it can't waver as much as other chips) and as such, they both end up, at times, not working correctly.

I've talked to a LOT of people that have had completely unreliable Athlon systems. Had them remove their Sound Blasters and everything works beautifully from then on out.

But I also know a lot of people (me included) who run 686b south bridge chips and SBLives without any problems at all (well, almost any. I've bluescreened once or twice on sound card problems.. but system's very stable otherwise)

It's basically like flipping a coin.

 

[anime]

see my rig--nuff said

 

[JeremiahTheGreat]

Turffed me SBLive a long long time ago.. then decided to turf VIA out the door as well

Otherwise ATi + AMD = very nice, for me anyway..

K7S5A (with NEW heatsink/fan = stable)
Athlon XP 1600+
512MB Sdram
Radeon 8500 LE