Leadtek WinFast 7350KDA Review And it available at newegg.com for ~100

[Zebo]

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[NeonFlak]

Read that review awhile ago. If there were only more reviews on that board though.... You can get a shuttle ak31 for $78 now, which isn't a bad board at all.

 

[Mltsao]

damn, not to shabby.

id still prolly get a 266A since the price isnt so much more.

 

[nortexoid]

yeah, but who wants a via southbridge?

not i.

 

[Challenger]

Nor I

 

[Pabster]

Nor I. (Actually, who wants a VIA north bridge either? )

Looks like a beauty. Not significantly faster than K7S5A, but a bit more tweakable. You decide if it is worth 2x the cost, of course. I'd take the 7350KDA over any KT266A board any day. Especially after my abysmal experiences with several of 'em.

Pay close attention to just how little difference there is between SiS 735 and KT266A in synthetic tests. There's even less in the "real world", where SiS 735 performs identically -- yet lets you avoid the VIA headaches and sets you free from 4-in-1 "fixes" (I don't call them drivers) and your hardware functions without IRQ nightmares and PCI latency headaches to spend hours tweaking

 

[human2k]

Sounds like you had a horrible expierence............My three Shuttle Ak31A are my first via based boards, the stability seems to be on par any other board I've owned (such as my slow ass celery 533 on I810E).

The KT266A boards are great boards.

 

[Duvie]

I think I may be a bit more interested when it hits around 80 bucks...I am going to throw a 1ghz furon on the ecs board and give it to my mom...Maybe my 1.4tbird will stay on it and I will get an xp 1800+

Is the shutdown function supposed to be some sort of thermal protection? Or since atbird can go quite fast in a rare castastrophic hsf failure, the board most likely couldn't really shutdown fast enough..That is for a rare occasion...

 

[Duvie]

Is there any multiplier controls??? My 1.4tbird is unlocked and I would like to drop the multiplier and jack the fsb to the 1/5 pci divider....

 

[WageSlave]

Via is suck
kt266a is suck

is suck is suck

 

[Pabster]

Duvie wrote:

"Is there any multiplier controls??? My 1.4tbird is unlocked and I would like to drop the multiplier and jack the fsb to the 1/5 pci divider...."

Yes, Leadtek 7350KDA has multiplier controls -- but they are in the form of DIPs on the mainboard -- not BIOS. Nonetheless, the option is there. I was a bit disappointed they didn't look at the thermal control features a bit more, as that was one of the touted highlights of this board. Perhaps it is at least capable of reading the Pally's internal diode?