Soltek SL-75DRV2 (Tom's review - hmmmm)

[flexy]

hi,

acoording to THG the soltek is a kickass board....i really really put my eyes on it now since i stumbled upon *another* dissapointing review
of the nforce boards today (see main anandtech news)....they even mention stability (!) issues of the MSI nforce....in addition that with an external agp card the gain from an additional stick of ram ranges from about 0.4% to 2.5% == neglectible.

The soltek board looks good...it comes with a thermal sensor....many cool overclocker's features...and a program i really think it's worth to get the board for alone: Partitionmagic !!!!

I still dont know if the alpha 8045 would fit on the board...(anyway on the pic i see the board has the 4 holes around the cpu socket)...i will email soltek today and ask...but maybe someone else (from canada, eh ?) has this board with an alpha on it ? How is the board in general ?


greets

 

[Jeff H]

flexy, the Soltek sounds like a good board, but where does one find it? I did a search on PriceWatch and Soltek isn't even listed in the See Brands section. So, who sells Soltek boards in the US?

 

[Bovinicus]

They are extremely hard to find. In fact, I e-mailed THG about that. A board should not be recommended if it's availability is really horrible. They also recommended the K7V. I don't really agree with that, it has too many extras that make the board cost a lot more than some of the competitors.

 

[flexy]

ok guys..even if i risk now they will soon run out of stock (sigh

go to www.ncix.com (They're in Canada, eh !) There is a link, click on the us flag.

they ship to the us, too.

the board is USD $118, according to their site shipping is ~ $14 to the states.

I will definitevely get a board as soon as i know whether the alpha 8045 fits on it.


greets

Edit: I emailed soltek/taiwan and i emailed the authors of the THG review aboot my question (alpha 8045 heatsink)

 

[Bozo Galora]

*sigh*

link

 

[flexy]

<< *sigh*

link >>



hehe..yeah bozo i got the link from you yesterday...guess they will have to re-stock their supplies soon

 

[flexy]

yepp...alpha 8045 fits ! Cool !!!!!!

 

[whasthat13]

<< yepp...alpha 8045 fits ! Cool !!!!!! >>



hey flexy how'd you find that out?

 

[sitka]

Soltek
I bought the KT133 model sl75-kv2-x a while ago and really like it

Got it from

http://soltekusa.safeshopper.com/index.htm

This board was plagued with the slow fsb but outrageous sandra memory scores

A buddy needed some gear so the DRV was a suggestion he went with it and it needed an rma
Don't no why but it would not post. Rumour was the memory traces were very delicate and standard pressure on the dimms would crack em
Anyways he got a new board and in about a week he lost an IDE channel. He plugged in some old 2 gig drive I think with the power still on.
The board was then used in a business environment that didn't need the other channel.

My older Soltek is just amazing. This was the first board out with native ata100 support. I once shorted an onboard fan header and smelled smoke. Burnt a trace on the back and soldered a jumper, fired right up. Poured coolant all over it and all is well. Their support is awesome. E'mail back within 6 hrs. (wanted a list of dram drive strength values but didn't get it, some time ago) Their drivers/bios are always up to the minute. Had Athlon 4 support before anyone had chips.

 

[flexy]

<<

<< yepp...alpha 8045 fits ! Cool !!!!!! >>



hey flexy how'd you find that out? >>



i got a mail from one of the guys at tom's hw (who did the review) - he put an alpha on the board because he wanted to try for himself..and he told me it fit

 

[damocles]

Isn't there a purple DRV3 also?

 

[Bozo Galora]

i wasn't sighing because you repeated my link (who cares)
i was sighing because it was not an ACTIVE link

 

[j@cko]

DRV3 has RAID add-on.

 

[flexy]

correction:



the Alpha pal 8045 does *** NOT *** fit on the soltek-75 drv2 board !!!!!!!

(got it directly from a soltek guy in taiwan and from bert toepel/tom's hardware)


SIGH

 

[bakaris]

crud.

what heatsinks do fit then?
would the sk6 work?