Looking for a good chipset

[Com807877]

Hi all,

Right now I have a VIA chipset board. It has TONS of VIA related problems that just won't get fixed.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a chipset that is not full of bugs? (for an AMD XP/DDR setup) Or a specific board that is good?

Thanks!

 

[Boonesmi]

amd 761 chipset (very mature but does have a few bugs with the via southbridge)
via kt266a (also getting pretty mature and quite bug free)
ali magik1 (pretty bug free, but traditionally a low performer... the newest revision "c" has helped the performance alot though)

any of those chipsets above work great... if you want stability any of those will work. some boards will be less stable then others, but thats related to the design and the quality of parts.... asus cost more but they make high quality products

for me personally i would go with a soyo dragon+ (kt266a)

 

[Ionizer86]

Need exceptional stability?

As Boonesmi brought out, the KT266A is a Via chipset, but it is very mature now, since it is 4 chipsets newer than that buggy KX133. If you are really concerned with stability, go AMD 760!

IMHO, the three best 760 boards are: Abit KG7/KG7 Lite/KG7-Raid; EPoX 8K7A/8K7A+; GA 7DXR (the GA 7DX sux). The 8K7A is supposed to do like FSB 170 or more with perfect stability.

Asus boards are supposed to be rock solid, but they're not that solid when overclocked. And Asus boards seem to be low quality these days; they cut corners by taking out PCI slots, using fugly yellow PCBs, etc.

If you want stability and overclocking, those above three AMD760 boards are the best, not that KT266A isn't stable though.

 

[Freewolf]

I have been very happy with my shuttle ak31a Version3 which uses the 266a chipset and is very quick.

 

[Jerboy]

<< Need exceptional stability?

As Boonesmi brought out, the KT266A is a Via chipset, but it is very mature now, since it is 4 chipsets newer than that buggy KX133. If you are really concerned with stability, go AMD 760!

IMHO, the three best 760 boards are: Abit KG7/KG7 Lite/KG7-Raid; EPoX 8K7A/8K7A+; GA 7DXR (the GA 7DX sux). The 8K7A is supposed to do like FSB 170 or more with perfect stability.

Asus boards are supposed to be rock solid, but they're not that solid when overclocked. And Asus boards seem to be low quality these days; they cut corners by taking out PCI slots, using fugly yellow PCBs, etc.

If you want stability and overclocking, those above three AMD760 boards are the best, not that KT266A isn't stable though. >>




Don't count on much OC'ing with GA-7DXR. My 1.4GHz chip OC fine and run stable at 1.53 GHz, but my mobo refuse to reboot properly unless I cold boot. Other people've had this problem too.

Otherwise its a nice board. I"d go with GA-7DXR+ though. Same thing except, you can do CPU related change in BIOS rather than jumpers.

 

[rogue1979]

Epox 8K7A is the master of high fsb stability. I have used several and they all hit 165-170 easily. No voltage mods needed, and the cpu voltage goes to 2.15-2.25v stock.

 

[Wind]

KT266A chipset. Fast and stable. The "stable" will depends on ur other components & not just chipset alone.