Best _performance_: Abit KT7 vs. ASUS A7V

[raindog406]

Sure, there are plenty of people who love the Abit for its features and jumperless bios settings. And some trust the name ASUS over abit when it comes to quality control over their boards. What I am wondering is: which board performs better regardless of its features? Is the performance difference between them negligable? Are there more hardware conflicts with one or the other? I have read the reviews from my two most trusted hardware sites, Anandtech and Tom's, and their results seem to conflict. Any help for a newbie building his first computer would be greatly appreciated. I'm making my decision today.

Thanks
Bill

P166@208 <---- Sad, huh? Please help

 

[Enigma]

Most reveiws show them to be pretty much the same. It comes down to what features you want.

 

[GaryTcs]

My A7V install went great-after I put the sound blaster in PCI slot 3, and the board has been stable. Another nice thing is the windows-based bios upgrade. Very cool. It does have that worthless amr slot on it though......
I dont have a kt7- someone else will have to recommend that one.

 

[fergiboy]

I have a kt7. The best thing that I like about it is the ram settings in the BIOS. My memory benchmarks went way up after I optimized the settings. I am also running kingmax pc150 ram though.

 

[jpprod]

All boards based on a certain chipset should perform nearly equally (only 1-3% differences depending on manufacturer's choise of BIOS tweaks) if there are no issues in them. In benchmarks A7V and KT7 seem neck-to-neck, both slightly above average of KT133 motherboards.