ECS K75SA vs K7AMA

[Mitzi]

Hi,

I just purchased a very cheap ECS K7AMA board (£60 Stirling). Reading all the posts here it seems everyone raves about the K75SA board and no one has mentioned the K7AMA. Over here I cannot get hold of a K75SA.

My initial impressions of the board are favourable, everything you can expect for a low price board.

I know that one uses a SIS chipset and the other an AliMagik chipset, the K75SA also has one extra PCI slot. Is the SIS a *far* superior chipset or are they simular boards in the way of performance/features?

Thanks.

 

[Athlon4all]

MAGiK just never was a popular chipset. It performed no better than KT133A with SDRAM. It is a stable chipset, but when there are better performing boards for the same price, why not? And yeah, Sis 735 is cheaper, Higher performing, so yes, it is by "far" a better chipset than MAGiK. It is stable, MAGiK, so u'd be fine with it, you just won't get the true performance of DDR with it.

 

[Mitzi]

Thanks,

I spend all my cash on 512Mb DDR, Athlon 1.4 and new Case/PSU so I needed a real cheap board.

When I get some more cash together I'll go get a real motherboard. Its just a shame that you cannot get the K7S5A over here.

Besides, to me the performance of the K7AMA is blistering when compared to my old PIII 850 and BX440!

 

[Athlon4all]

Yep. It probably wasn't a bad choice, because right now in the coming weeks we are going to see a final battle for Socket A Chipset supremacy with KT266A and nForce boards showing up, so I'd wait and see what ends up happening with all this and then make a decision.

 

[hominid skull]

They sell it at a company called Aria, you can find the board here.

 

[nortexoid]

actually, the magik w/ PC2100 DDR is faster than teh KT133A, especially on apps requirign high memory bandwidth...the only thing that the magik really suffered from was higher memory latency than any other chipset, but ti isn't so bad that it's way behind any of the other chipsets...

it's faster than any SDR platform and probably the slowest DDR, but not perceptibly slower...u won't even notice a diff, and now at least u have pc2100 to use if u ever upgrade in the future...plus the board didnt' cost u much, so if u ever do upgrade, u didn't lose much...not to mention i tend to upgrade board + cpu everytime i upgrade my cpu, so....