Soltek SL75KAV KT133A based: opinions please?

[PUNKtotalled]

I know that during the roundup of june that board wasn't impressive, but I'd like to get some opinions of users, because I can buy one for very few bucks, and I wanna know. I just wanna know if it is stable enough for office works.

 

[PUNKtotalled]

bump

 

[CAK]

I have used them(12 or so) and never had any problems to speak of. Used the KT266A version also and like it alot.

 

[PUNKtotalled]

thanks, cak! nothin more?

 

[myke]

I've been using a soltek 75kav for approx 6 months. Very stable. Running my Duron 750 at 1000 (133x7.5).
I bought it as it had an ISA slot for my modem. It will run up to a XP2000+ with the latest bios.
The only downide is no DDR support. But rams cheap enough.

Myke

 

[CraigRT]

I am looking into their KT266A solution.. from what I have heard from some of my friends, they are great boards in general, this one included...

 

[PUNKtotalled]

According to tom's hardware, the SLDRV2 is the best KT266A based board. It seems like soltek is growing on and on in quality of productions.

 

[Zoltarc]

I have the SL75KAV running a Tbird 750 @ 900. I have been using this for many moons now and I have had no issues or problems relating to the board. It seems very stable when pushing the FSB up, however my other compents can't handle much past 140 so I don't know how high it can go.

The design and layout is excellent. The ATX connected located right at the top of the board and the IDE connectors are almost inline with the AGP slot, this makes plugging HDDs and CD drives in and out a breeze.

My only gripe is the board is now aging and has no DDR


If your looking for a KT133A board I would place this ahead of Abit and Asus IMO.

 

[Danella]

Just built my sys with the SL-75KAV, and so far, five days and running, it is stable as a rock.

This was my first ubild ever, and I had more problems wondering if I was using the Artic silver properly, and sinking my CPU, than I did setting up the board. At first I had a little instability problem, couldn't install windows 98SE, so I tried using the RedStorm Overclock, tested my 1Gig Athlon to 1.057, and everything installed and ran like a dream. It is stable, fast, and easy to set up. I give it ***** out of 5.

On the KT133A chipset, I've heard it said for large amounts of memory, you should use unbuffered registered mem, I used the cheap stuff, (standard OEM), 2 sticks of 128, and Norton shows a mem error at 255,xxx,xxx Tried each chip independently, and they test out fine. Not a real problem for me, corrected in system.ini with MaxPhysPage=0E000, telling windows I really only have 224Mg, and the minor inconvenience is gone. good enough for my use though.

I wouldn't hesitate buying another Soltek, in fact, I'm thinking of the DRV2 for my next project.

Dan (Dan + Carmella = Danella)

 

[PUNKtotalled]

end of story.....
I finally bought it and built a system on it last sunday, and it rocks well...
If you can get one for cheap.... go get it.