Is the Amptron K7-807 a good mobo???

[Harv22222]

I'm looking into getting a new mobo and processor, but like always cash is limited. I'm looking at getting the AMD Thunderbird 750 Socket A and was wondering if anyone knew of any problems with the two. I've looked around in many posts and didn't see anything on Amptron mobo's so if anyone has any input, i'd appreciate it.

 

[Klosters]

The one component of a PC that shouldn't be scrimped on is the mainboard. If you have to, wait an extra month to build your budget so you can buy a quality mainboard. 'Fraid that PC Chips, Houston and Amptron are to be avoided.

 

[Harv22222]

Is there any reason why those 3 should be avoided or are they just lesser known and not sure of quality? And is Epox a good one or another avoidable one, forgot to put it in first post.

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Amptron is defenetly CRAP!!!

Just like my spelling...

 

[Peter]

Yyyyessss ... Amptron M807 is crap ... so how come the ECS K7VZA gets good to excellent reviews everywhere?!?

This is the exact same board! Including PC-Chips M807, and whatever alias names Matsonic, Houston, Eurone, and many others sell it under.

Same thing, same good, stable and fast mainboard - the only thing that mainboards from this group of companies never have is silly features, and overclocking stuff.

There's just a manufacturing option so they either have two or three DIMM slots, and just like with all other socket-A VIA chipset boards, there has been a change from 686A to 686B south bridge (for UDMA-100 support) and another one from KT133 to KT133A north (for 133 MHz CPU bus support).

Regards, Peter

 

[seind]

Just wondering...

I've seen this ECS K7VZA -what-a-name- a little bit lately. People say that these boards are crap. (cloned mobos! PCchips&co)

Boss look for us...cheapos Socket A's...
Will they work?

 

[Peter]

Hell they're not cloned - IT'S THE SAME COMPANY ALTOGETHER. Just different outlets.

See the reviews at Tom's, Sysopt, and quite a few other places. Reviewers are very happy with the M807/K7VZM.

Regards, Peter

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Need to try it yourself, if you can install win and run it without any problem, it's a good mb.

However, since I got an Amptron P5 mb with fake L2 cache from friend, I saw pc-chips 486, P5 mb with fake cache too, so I won't consider Amptron/pc-chips mb in buying.

ECS used to be a high quality mb manufacturer, after being bought by pc-chips, I won't consider it too now, it should have better quality from pc-chips family, but the price isn't so great comparing to Epox, MSI, I'll stay with Epox or MSI for low-cost mb.

 

[Peter]

Epox low cost? In your corner of the world, maybe.

Here: ECS K7VZA-100 is 189 Deutsche Mark, Epox 8KTA2 is 269. Those 80 bucks buy 128 MBytes of PC133 SDRAM ...

Peter

PS, btw, the fake-cache mainboards were in the 486 era, and PC-Chips produced them that way on a particular system OEM's request. That OEM (can't remember who that was) got sacked.

 

[seind]

I actually have a "clone", a Socket7 running a 200mmx.
BUT there is no way I could find support from the mother company.
SO in NO WAY i would buy any product from them again.

The truth is that the above board was running perfectly stable at 75 FSB, and quite stable at 83. (some documentation on the board & some experiments from me - i had no manual)

Also there is some support available from them (BIOS downloads) from what i can remember since the last time I visited their site for certain models. You should check their site before buying their product. And of course some reviews help as well.

As always -- this is MY opinion

 

[Kingofcomputer]

in US, Epox 8KTA3 is less than $120 now, ECS k7-807 with duron 850 is $200 (only found 1 place selling it from pricewatch.com), ECS isn't much cheaper than Epox 8KTA3, don't forget the Epox 8KTA3 is KT133A and 686B. No way to consider ECS.

in US and Asian countries, you could buy the pc-chips fake cache 486 mb any where, those small computer shops like to sell oem stuff to individuals which is not supposed to.

 

[Harv22222]

Just to fill everyone in. I just purchased the Epox 8KTA with a Duron 750 for $165 after shipping. Epox seemed to be a good mobo and the duron is a very reliable processor and seems to be a good mobo to OC also. Thx for all the info everyone and if you have any more input fill me in.