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If you were buying a KT133A board today which would you get?

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I think IWILL KK266 just stole the show at VIAHardware 165 FSB !!. When it comes to stability, MSI and Gigabyte take top honors. Raw speed, goes to ABIT, but quality they are not. EPOX has the price advantage, with Iwill a close second. Havn't decided yet myself, but Gigabyte and MSI are the front runners.
 
The MSI board, but you probably knew this already... my second hand choice would be the Epox...

Patrick Palm

Am speaking for PC Resources
 


<< I think IWILL KK266 just stole the show at VIAHardware 165 FSB !!. When it comes to stability, MSI and Gigabyte take top honors. Raw speed, goes to ABIT, but quality they are not. EPOX has the price advantage, with Iwill a close second. Havn't decided yet myself, but Gigabyte and MSI are the front runners. >>



I dont see how you can say raw speed goes to Abit... Toms clearly showed that the Epox, Abit, and Asus all perform VERY VERY close to each other. I have a big feeling that Iwill board was hand picked.
 
Abit KT7A-RAID

I just picked one of these up along with a week 52 1.2ghz Thunderbird...I am now runing at 9 x 150 (1350) at below default voltage (1.7v). I have all four IDE channels loaded and a Elsa Gladiac overclocked with no problems. I agree with Technonut, there are alot of people having sucess with this board.


BTW - This is the first board that I have gotten a score of over 9000 in 3DMark..not that it really matters since no one actually &quot;plays&quot; 3DMark, but cool none the less...🙂
 


<< not that it really matters since no one actually &quot;plays&quot; 3DMark >>



Hehe, this is true, finally someone else than me pointed that out... 🙂

I think that it's just great that your Abit board is working that well for you, it seems that Abit boards are either king of the world or not working at all...

Let me ask you one thing though, is it rock stable, really rock stable? Most Abit users says that their boards are stable, but if you push 'em a bit it turns out that their systems hangs/reboots several times every day...

I wouldn't recommend the Abit, i do not want to explain why, if you care about my opinion, do a search, i have described why i do not like Abit soo many times...

I recommend MSI.. Until Abit get's a functional QC department...

Patrick Palm

Am speaking for PC Resources
 
&quot;Let me ask you one thing though, is it rock stable, really rock stable? &quot;

I guess everyone has a different idea of stability. I don't know if my board would pass the battery of tests you do for your customers Patrick, but I have been running the Prime95 &quot;torture test&quot; since I got it up and running, and I haven't shut it down yet or had any crashes. I have looped both Q3 and 3DMark overnight a couple of times while Prime95 was running and that's good enough for me. I am not running a mission critical server or anything, it's just my home PC. 🙂
 
I doubt the Iwill was hand picked...but, I will give an honest evaluation after I play with mine a bit - should arrive tomorrow. It will be interesting to compare it to my MSI 815E/PIII-700@933+ in the other room.

Anyone know where I can pick up a conductive pen SOON????

snuggy
 


<< I guess everyone has a different idea of stability. I don't know if my board would pass the battery of tests you do for your customers Patrick, but I have been running the Prime95 &quot;torture test&quot; since I got it up and running, and I haven't shut it down yet or had any crashes. I have looped both Q3 and 3DMark overnight a couple of times while Prime95 was running and that's good enough for me. I am not running a mission critical server or anything, it's just my home PC >>



That's what i meant, it works for you, without rebooting twice a day and without any hangs... That is great... I do understand why you like the board, as it has overclocked so well and is that stable... maybe i should do another running with the Abit boards... I think i will order a couple of thousand of them right now for tests, of course, the ones who fail will go back...

I fully understand that my tests are more extreme than anything you guys would ever do to these boards, but as every single MSI board has passed my tests (except for the RMA/DOA ones, < 0,1%) so i will continue to recommend them...

Patrick Palm

Am speaking for PC Resources
 
I'd get the Abit.

The only thing I don't like about it is the HighPoint controller. I'd be really REALLY happy if there would be a board featuring something like quad-IDE by Intel (ATA-100).
 
I would get the Abit. And if I was gonna buy today The MSI Turbo would not be an option Cause they wont be out for 2 to 3 weeks so cross it off your list. LOL
 
Hey Nokari (SP?)

You said you've seen those boards floating around. You included the Turbo-R. Have you seen it floating around? And if so, where?
 
I have tried abit boards in the past - namely the KA7 and Bh6 - i was less than impressed...and extremely disappointed with quality of the abit boards...so im am pretty much done with them...Have you ever RMAd a board to them - WOW!!!Talk about horrible customer service...

I have asus boards and after the debacle that is the K7M and K7V - i have pretty much decided that i will give another motherboard company a chance...

Namely EPOX - i have read many promising reviews of this boards - plus its cost...about 30 to 40 less - Why not...Im not an overclocker anyway...and by the time i will want to overclock _ Im sure ill have a new board...so its doesnt matter...

At any rate - i vote for the Epox Board - simply on basis of cost and quality (as mentioned in its review)...

Good luck with your decision...

Rick
 
Just got the A7V133 today!. 2 reasons I bought it over the Abit. Lots of room around the processor. You can easily fit any heatsink you want with room to manuver. And the name. If you're looking purely at the spec sheet the Abit comes out ahead with 6pci slots and all the memory tweaking. I just couldn't bring myself to stray from Asus. I don't believe there is enough difference between all of the new A boards to worry to much about it though.
 


<< Just got the A7V133 today!. 2 reasons I bought it over the Abit. Lots of room around the processor. You can easily fit any heatsink you want with room to manuver. And the name. If you're looking purely at the spec sheet the Abit comes out ahead with 6pci slots and all the memory tweaking. I just couldn't bring myself to stray from Asus. I don't believe there is enough difference between all of the new A boards to worry to much about it though. >>



If you need 6 PCI then of corse that croses off the Asus (Not many people do thats for sure). As for memory tweaking thats basically a myth. Sure Abit gives you the option to turn them off and on.... asus just leaves them on. Ive used WPCRSET and there wasnt anything I could do to get more memory performance... all the options where already on.
 
Dulanic:

Just curious, what do you get for memory scores with your A7V133? I have the Abit KT7A-RAID at a 150mhz FSB and I have the same Mosel memory as you, and I was just curious what your scores are? I get like 641/702 at 150mhz FSB...just curious..🙂
 


Abit KT7A
I personally own this mobo and it rocks my Duron 650 at 150 MHz.
Anything above it is not stable, though.
Now, I am cruising happily at 975 MHz.

Whooooohoooooo
 
Asus by a hair over Abit ... better quality control &amp; sick of dealing with HighPoints crappy BIOS and drivers &amp; squirrely detection. I'll take the Promise card, thanx.

 
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