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How stable is abit kr7a- raid motherboard

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madmickey

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How stable is the Abit kr7a raid motherboard. This seems to be the only kt-266a motherboard that can handle a core voltage of 1.6 volts for future Thoroughbred.
 
Very very stable. Considering my bad luck with numerous problems with via chipsets, this is a rock solid motherboard. Very nice features, very stable. It even overclocks well, or so Im told...I have a certain component thats installed the restricts me to 140 FSB...thats as high as I could go on a MSI board, so its definately a component holding me back and ram isnt it for sure.

Ive also heard many good things about the Epox motherboard but I have no direct experience with them.



Whats this crap about 1.6 volts? There are all kinds of motherboards that support voltages up to 1.8 volts I believe. The kr7a, MSI's 266a board, Im pretty sure even the gigabyte board my friend has can get the voltage to around 1.8 or so. Maybe Im wrong on this, but it seems more like a better question would be..what motherboard doesnt support the 1.6 volts?!
 
Very stable, the only reason I would not recommend it is because the A7V266-e and Dragon+ are just as good overclockers as the KR7A and just as stable and also have better features (particularly the Dragon+).
 
Soyo dragon+ is a good overclocker but the memory voltage adjustments are limited but not on the KR7A and this often allows better o/cing...
A7V266e...I think the raid does not allow use of promise controller for ata100...whereas the HPT372 allows for raid or ata133/100
 
Very, at least here it is. I haven't really seen many posts about problems with it post-setup either.
 
honestly, i am very surprised how stable my KR7A system has been. i have a pretty intense setup too, and it is just awesome. let me give you a taste:

SCSI controller with SCSI Zip, SCSI CD-RW, and SCSI DVD.
2x RAID 0 hard drives and 2x RAID 1 hard drives.
2x 256MB of DDR
XP 1600+ chip running at 1700+
Fastest mem settings, default voltage

running 24/7 for the past two weeks, no problems. i used to have a KT7A and it gave me fits. this guy is 100% more stable.

edit: i disabled the southbridge's IDE controller (no need for it, i use the Highpoint controller for my 4 hard drives), so that is one thing that may make my system more stable.
 
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