Chaintech 7AIV5 mobo. Any good?

theplanb

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I'm still looking for micro-ATX low cost video integrated motherboard.
While I was browsing AMD site, I found this motherboard which is the only micro-ATX, video integrated mobo RECOMMENDED for 1.4GH Athlon (233 FSB) by AMD.
It's none other than Chainteck 7AIV5 board.
Does anyone has any experience on them?
 

theplanb

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Since I saw '0" responses on other chaintech threads, I didn't like my chnace and it's been realised :( :( :(
Does anybody have any experience with any kind of chaintech motherboard??
 

HFC

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I bought one through ubid. It's nice board with C-Media sound which I assume is better than the typical AC97 codec that you find in uATX boards. I had high hope to use this board to replace my 8K7A and SBLive. I had the urge to shrink the size of my computer. Come to find out you can only overclock via FSB and only up to 140. There are spaces on the board for several dip switches. I wish they had implemented them.
Oh well, I am going back to my 8K7A because I won't settle to the default CPU speed (too cheap to pay for the higher speed).