Most Problem Free/Athlon Socket A DDR systems

[dejacky]

title says it all Would like to know which combinations of Mobo's/PCI devices/Ram type yield the most stable/glitch free. Thanks in advance.

-dejacky

 

[cchen]

You won't know unless you test it out. I have a MSI K7T Turbo with a 1.2 ghz tbird and mushkin ram, and haven't had any compatibility or stability issues

 

[dejacky]

What PCI devices do you have in the system?

-dejacky

 

[Brian48]

You're going to be getting varying opinions regarding this. For what it's worth, I have an Epox 8K7A+ and it performs admirably.

 

[dejacky]

Yes, but What do you have on the motherboard? What kind of ram and what pci devices?

-dejacky

 

[Moving Target]

Check my Gaming Rig, no problems.

 

[wfbberzerker]

epox 8k7a is completely problem free ONLY if you install the latest via 4in1 drivers
i run mine with a linksys nic, sblive value, radeon ddr, and 1 stick of 256mb pc2100 crucial ram

 

[Drekce]

I have an Asus A7M266 with a Retail Athlon 1.4GHz and 512 MB of Crucial 2100 DDR RAM. Also in the system is a Sound Blaster Live, ATI Radeon LE 32MB, 3COM Win 56K Modem, and a cheap Linksys NIC. I run W2K Professional SP2 as my OS. This computer has been up and running for about three months and I have not had to reboot (except when installing something) or had any other major lockups. This system is more stable than my Dell PIII 500. I was very leery about putting together an AMD based system, but so far I am beyond pleased.

 

[aidan]

check the signiture for my computers, all are 100% reliable, apart from the MSI motherboard died once, and got RMA'd (so not quite 100% )

 

[Brian48]

<< You're going to be getting varying opinions regarding this. For what it's worth, I have an Epox 8K7A+ and it performs admirably. >>




Win98SE/Win2k
1.4ghz T-bird (AYHJA Y) /8K7A+ Raid
512mb PC2100 Crucial
Visiontek GeForce3
3dfx V2 1000 12mb SLI
TB Santa Cruz/Altec Lansing ACS56
Actiontec 56k PCI
WD 7200rpm ATA100 30g (P.Master/IDE3)
Maxtor 7200rpm ATA66 40g (P.Master/IDE1)
Toshiba DVD-ROM M1212 (S.Master/IDE2)
Acer 52x CDROM (S.Slave/IDE2)
USB devices:
UMAX 2100u scanner
MSIntellimouse Optical
MS Sidewinder game pad
Sony 19" 420GS


All running on an Antec pp303x 300w powersupply.

 

[mchammer187]

epox or ecs sis735

 

[nortexoid]

didn't have a problem setting up an ECS K7S5A + Duron 800 w/ riptide audio+modem and pandex gf2 MX 32mb in win2k and win98

it was exceptionally easy...plugged everything in, turned it on, it worked...

the only thing i had to do was remove the 3-pin connector for the powerLED since the board only has a 2-pin location on board...
(which makes sense since the stupid thing only uses two of the pins....dont' know why they ship cases w/ 3-pin connectors - traditionalists?)

i only installed the AGP gart driver for the chipset (ver. 1.07)

then again, i read an entire K7S5A forum so i knew what i was in for...

set all IDE devices to PIO mode 5 in bios for UDMA/DMA support

 

[dejacky]

thanks nortexoid and everyone else. I've decided to get the ECS K7S5A, but the place I want to buy it from is out of stock :-(.