- Jun 24, 2001
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My friend is building a very high-performance AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz system & refuses to wait for the nVidia nForce chipset boards... He *REFUSES* to use anything with a Via chipset, & quite frankly: I can't blame him. But after stumbling on the Iwill Ali board, he ordered it without a second thought (Using MY card too) & I made him cancel it. Why get stuck with a bad board just because he want's to avoid Via? He needs o learn SOMETHING about it first. I looked up an old (April) socket-A chipset comparison here at AT & saw that it has abismal performance & DDR latency issues. I've been praising the virtues of an AMD760 system, but I think that it's too expensive to convince him. Does the AMD761/Via 686b (Southbridge) combo have the same problems we are used to seeing with Via? Like the SB Live! incompatabilities & the necessary installation of the Via 4-in-1 "workarounds?" I *KNOW* Via has yet to work out their eternal flaws from the new KT266 boards, so that's not an option for us. He probably won't get nForce either because of the price/wait 