VIA / ALi chipset boards..

[Vegito]

Would we ever see a day where we won't have to load these drivers when installing windows ?

Anyway, I been looking at an AMD solution for over a year now and still haven't found what I like.. Things have been cheap now but do you guys thing I should wait for a cooler core ? .13 micron ones ? ie I dont have air conditioner in the room... so that AMD will be really hot..

think I should wait ? I really would like that faster speed to surf the web

 

[R4yZr]

Hey bro!

I have an ALi Magik chipset & I have mixed feelings on it. I never read the performance reviews before I bought it. From what I have seen, the ALi chips dont perform quite as well as say....the AMD 760/761 chipsets or high end Intel chipsets.

If you could hold out for one that you may feel had sufficient cooling then go for it.

I would recommend the AMD 760 or the VIA before the ALi.

Hope that helps..

 

[Vegito]

I was just looking at the banner of ali advertisement.. maybe i'll just wait for nforce.....

 

[Athlon4all]

Yeah, forget MAGiK it often performs only up to PC133 SDR. I'd get AMD 760, or KT266. There are great boards out for each. Top 3 for 760 are Abit KG7-RAID (Expensive), EPoX 8K7A+ and Gigabyte GA-DDDDD. Top 3 KT266 are Asus A7V266 (AMD's refrence platform now, not out in the states yet), Shuttle AK31 rev2, and EPoX 8KHA.