what is a good kt333 mobo

[hnsn82]

title says it all,
i'm leaning towards asus a7v333. anyone have this board ???? how does it perform ???
any particular brands poeple like here ??

thanks

 

[Zim Hosein]

hnsn82, the asus board is an excellent MB, but I'm currently running the Epox 8K3A+ and have to say that it's stable and very OC friendly. Do a search for the Epox MB and you'll find plenty of posts in it's favor. Hope this helps

 

[Boonesmi]

i also love the 8k3a+

 

[hnsn82]

does the epox has usb 2.0 header or just the old usb ???

thanks

anyone know the price difference between the a7v333 and 8k3a+ ???

 

[CrazySaint]

The EPoX 8K3A+ only has USB 1.1. As for the price difference, it depends on which A7V333 you're comparing it to (I think there are 3 versions), but the A7V333 is going to be a good bit more expensive.

 

[MonkeyK]

What about the MSI KT3-Ultra2. Supposed to be a great board and this revision has the USB 2.0 headers. Unfortunately, I can't find this board for sale anywhere...

-Mike

 

[hnsn82]

saint :
what do you mean there are 3 different a7v333 ?? are you refering to the revision number ???
can you elaborate on that ??? many thanks.

ps : no other brand suggestions ???

 

[Vette73]

The Epox is a good board. I also like the Shuttle AK35GT2R. It does not have USB2.0, but does have highpoint raid and a 5.1Ch C-Media sound card

 

[SpacemanSpiffVT]

8k3a+ rocks

 

[30wolverine30]

I have the 8K3A+ and it kicks a$$. I got it from newegg and had to rma it as the first one was dead. I've read about a lot of them coming doa from newegg. They're customer service is great and if you can get a good one you've got a winner!!!

 

[hnsn82]

hm.. i think most of you guys like the epox better than asus .. i will take a look on it ,
this gonna be my frist amd based computer i build. I build severals intel already.
is there any suggestion on what kind of thing i have to watch out ??? heard that amd need good psu , what you guys recomend ( brand and watt #) also what memory should i get ??

thanks in advance for replying

 

[uo7]

Outpost.com (fry's) has this board for $110.00, and includes the usb 2.0 board for free.http://shop2.outpost.com/product/3275511/

They just lowered the price to $99.00 including the free 2.0 usb card

 

[kinji55]

Would people recommend kt333 over kt266a is there that much difference if i dont' need to overclock ?

I am currently running a7v133 with thunderbird 1.4 266fsb. how much more power will i see goign to 266a or 333. ?

thanks

 

[WA261]

i just ordered an 8K3A+....i liked the fsb and voltage options

review of KT333 boards


can buy for $78 shipped

 

[Boonesmi]

kt333 has everything and does everything the kt266a does... plus it does more

the only possible reason you should buy a kt266a over the kt333 would be if the price was low enough.

the performance increase of the kt333 is very slight over the kt266a so it wouldnt really be a very good upgrade to go from kt266a to kt333

 

[kinji55]

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
kt333 has everything and does everything the kt266a does... plus it does more

the only possible reason you should buy a kt266a over the kt333 would be if the price was low enough.

the performance increase of the kt333 is very slight over the kt266a so it wouldnt really be a very good upgrade to go from kt266a to kt333

yah. but the reviews looks like it doesnt' seem there is a good board out there on the market .. the epox one everyone is recommending here. hm... do you see a big improvement if i was to get xp1800+ with epox kt333 board ..?

currently i have a7v133 with 1.4 gig w/ 266fsb would i see a big difference?

thanks for the info.

 

[Boonesmi]

what do you do on your pc?
if its write papers and surf the internet then you wont see much increase in upgrading

im not sure what reviews you are reading but the kt333 is a very stable, mature chipset and most of the boards based on it perform very nicely

i prefer the epox 8k3a+, but really there are many good boards to choose from that use the kt333 chipset

 

[kinji55]

well. i play games once in a while, last game i played was warcraft3.. my current 1.4 tb lagged a bit... not alot but when the armies got bigger you can tell its slowing down. however it might just been the geforce2 gts card that i use.

I also run dual monitor.. i dont' have the dual vga in the same card i use a pci card.

I am giving this pc to my parents so i want to build a new one. just need to know if it is worth it going to kt333 or go to kt266a.

is there another revision of the 333 coming out anytime soon?

thanks

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I got the 8K3A from Mwave.com for 74$+S&H which makes it about the same price as many decent KT266A boards and it has DDR333 support and 1/5 divider on it and CPU on-die temp sensor support. I put a 1600+ AGOIA (66$shipped@Newegg) in it and I'm running@1.75ghz(166FSB w/PCI&AGP in spec) default Vcore (dips to 1.71v under heavy load but still stable) I can't see any reason not to choose it over the KT266A based boards when the feature set is more up to date.

 

[kinji55]

hmmmm.. i see sounds like a plan to me. I will go with the epox board too then.. what is the difference with "+" and "CE" or just the "E" added to the end of it. I read that "CE" is a revision.. so is that better?

thanks

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: kinji55
hmmmm.. i see sounds like a plan to me. I will go with the epox board too then.. what is the difference with "+" and "CE" or just the "E" added to the end of it. I read that "CE" is a revision.. so is that better?

thanks

Well, the 8K3A+ is the 8K3A with 6channel sound and RAID, the 8K3AE is identical in features to the 8K3A but only has 5PCI slots, I didn't see any specs for the CE version but I presume that would be a microATX version. They do list a 8K5A2 and 8K5A2+ now that looks to be the 8K3AE(5 PCI slots) with USB 2.0 on board and the "+" model has RAID, 6channel sound, built in LAN, USB 2.0 and 6PCI slots. I haven't seen the 8K5A2+ around yet but it looks like a winner for the feature set and hopefully overclocks like the 8K3A

 

[kinji55]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: kinji55
hmmmm.. i see sounds like a plan to me. I will go with the epox board too then.. what is the difference with "+" and "CE" or just the "E" added to the end of it. I read that "CE" is a revision.. so is that better?

thanks

Well, the 8K3A+ is the 8K3A with 6channel sound and RAID, the 8K3AE is identical in features to the 8K3A but only has 5PCI slots, I didn't see any specs for the CE version but I presume that would be a microATX version. They do list a 8K5A2 and 8K5A2+ now that looks to be the 8K3AE(5 PCI slots) with USB 2.0 on board and the "+" model has RAID, 6channel sound, built in LAN, USB 2.0 and 6PCI slots. I haven't seen the 8K5A2+ around yet but it looks like a winner for the feature set and hopefully overclocks like the 8K3A

ooooooo... on board and sound with usb 2 and 6pci sounds very nice.. but do you get a conflict if you use slot 3 on the pci. I get that if i plug a device in slot 3 and it says the Promise raid is using the same irq .. so my A7V133 really only has 4 usable pci slots.. 3 if you minus the one right next to the agp slot because it is going to block the video fan..

 

[Boonesmi]

on your a7v133 you can use all of the pci slots.. what it does is gives you a warning that any card you put in that slot will share irq with the promise controller

but since most pci cards support irq sharing its not a problem