Considering ECS SiS735 board. How's the compatibility/stability (considering SiS's past problems!)?

[CZroe]

SiS has made miserable chipsets in the past with regards to performance, stability & compatibility. They have made strides to make up for themselves with this latest chipset, but all the articles seem to focus on it's excellent performance, and none mention other improvements. Perhaps because there are no problems, or has Via simply forced people to ignore them out of habit (Its been a "given" in the all-Via AMD world of the past that there would be stability & compatibility issues w/ the motherboard). A friend of mine wants a non-Via solution for these reasons, but can't afford the AMD760 & refuses the AMD761+Via option. SiS hopes to prove a God-send... (BTW, he's ordering today, so he considers replies to this an urgent matter)
Thnx!

 

[edjam]

Well, I built a machine with the ECS and a 1.4Ghz Athlon, and it's fine so far, very nice board for the money.

 

[CZroe]

Yeah, I figured anything's nice at this point, but if there's a reason to recommend against it, I will tell him to wait for the nForce.

 

[nortexoid]

board is solid w/ 800mhz duron @ 992MHz (124fsb, 1.85v) w/ a pandex geforce 2MX and 128mb pc100@124 CAS3 fast memory timings.

it runs well at 1064mhz as well (really 1067mhz) but has slight instability issues, so, the extra 70mhz isn't worth it...the onboard LAN is good and sound satisfactory...

just used it as an upgrade for my girl's celery 366mhz and asus 440ZX mainboard w/ integrated ATI RAGE IIC video

kept everything from the old system except mobo and cpu....works great...off of a 250watt generic psu and 2 optical drives, 1hdd, etc...

it's faster than the kt133a boards for SDR and one of the fastest DDR boards available...

if u want more fsb settings, flash using the o/c bios from ocworkbench....i had a corrupt flash teh first time and fried the bios...luckily, AMI has a boot block bios which auto-accesses the floppy and searches for a bios (called AMIBOOT.ROM) and flashes that incase of bad flashes....meaning, u can screw your flash up w/out having to worry as long as u have a backup bios on a disk (doesn't have to be bootable or contain a flash util either) named AMIBOOT.ROM