Thunderbird Motherboards....

[Electric Amish]

So, was the debate ever settled on wether or not the Slot A T-birds would run on any of the KX-133 motherboards??

Specifically the Asus K7V and the Abit KA7...

tia

amish

 

[GottaVoodoo2]

Going one step further, does that problem extend to Socket A mobos like the ABIT KT7 which also uses the 133?

The FIC SD-11 was also recommended, but honestly I own a FIC 503+, it's functional but can be a bit twitchy.

Also, trying to keep the amount spent down a bit...so I would rather not trash my ISA modem. So my preference is to have at least one ISA Slot.

The Gigabyte board got good reviews and the MSI? Any comments on those?

 

[Tripleshot]

GottaVoodoo2

The KT7 has 1 ISA slot. I haven't seen the board on the market yet.It is up on Abits web site.

 

[GottaVoodoo2]

I'm a patient man. The ABIT KT7 it will be! No onboard sound, ISA slot.

Thanks for all your help guys.

 

[Deeko]

Basically it comes down to your Thunderbird. Some work, some don't. Mine doesn't. The Asus K7V and the Abit KA7 work the best so far. Currently, the Asus K7V-T is available overseas but not here. That motherboard is designed specifically to address the problems with the Thunderbird, so if you do get a SlotA Tbird, it would be best to try to find one of them. And as to the question about socketA boards, no the problem does not apply. Those boards use the KT133 chipset, the SlotA boards that have problems use the KX133. The KT133 was made specifically to work with the TBird and SocketA.

 

[DaddyG]

Check out some of the threads at http://www.amdzone.com They have two threads going regarding Irongate boards and VIA boards. I agree though that results are difficult to predict. It appears that different weeks of the same speed Birds affect the outcome. Slower BIRDS seem to have better results (700 and 750's). BTW the early FIC SD11's had problems, but rev 1.08 is good and cheap.