I dare someone to bench A7V vs. A7V133 @100 Mhz FSB !!!

[Chaca]

How can you explain 35% better video performance with the A7V over the A7V133 @100Mhz FSB ???

There are still people that don't build computers to overclock and I'm one of them. I wish someone had reviewed the A7V133 @100Mhz FSB before I bought it so as to avoid it like the plague!! I don't have a 133Mhz FSB Duron and I could not find an A7V anywhere so I was forced to buy an A7V133 and now I'm very frustrated with the performance.

If someone is going to write a review of the performance of one motherboard compared to another, shouldn't they run them with all else being equal to get a true index ????

If someone tells me to set BYTE MERGE ON I'll hit them on the head with my useless A7V133 !!!

I have the exact same config. on both machines and I'm using the same hard drive to boot from either machine with a clean install of W98SE and 4in1 and video drivers (no sound, nothing else.)

Please someone write a review of the A7V133 compared to the A7V like it should be!!!! (Tom?)

Frank

 

[The Rock]

Sorry about your problems w/A7V133! I have that board and all is quite well. Both boards are very similar and ours should , when set up properly, out perform the A7V. Check AMD "type" sites to get an idea on how to best set up your board and if you have the time run some benchmarks. I'm sure you will be impressed! Good Luck!

 

[NforSa]

when you set the A7V133 to 100mhz, do you have the memory set @ 133mhz in biol (eg. memclock = Hostclock+pci or +33%) or something, dunno exactly how asus writes it.

that could be the problem... other than that the boards should be identical @ the same speed!?!? (or i rekon they should be anyway)

 

[John]

Haha, I am installing my A7V133 right now and it took me 30min to realize why my NIC wasn't working. I had byte merge enabled.