What KT133a mobo to buy?

[ultraBananflue]

I can't get the Iwill kk266 in denmark, so I need to buy somthing else... Should i go for the Abit, Soltek or MicroStar?
I don't like the A7V(133) series - too many issues with the A7V...

The price dosn't matter

Thanx in advance, Peter

 

[AlmightyOne]

Hi Peter!

I'm using an Asus A7V133 with the Via KT133A chipset and this runs very stable and without problems at all. Haven't you read the articles about Socket A motherboards? If you take a look at the Asus motherboard ASUS A7V133 Socket-A KT133A ATX article here at Anandtech it gets an overall rating of 8,5, and it was run during a 48 hour strees test without problems.
I would absolutely recommend an Asus motherboard, since it's the most stable board and you won't have problems getting help, drivers or bios updates. It's on stock at Midt Data, so if you order it today before 16.00 you will have it tommorow.

Regards,

--=Almighty One=--

 

[ultraBananflue]

Hmm... I'm not sure - my don't like play too much around with jumpers. I'm getting tired of it with my A7V. What about the Abit? The stability isn't amazing, or is it becomming better?

 

[AlmightyOne]

You don't have to use the jumpers on the A7V133, it is jumperfree as default. You control, mulitplier, FSB of cpu and DRam and also voltage from the Bios, so it isn't a problem.
If you unlock your cpu, you should be able to run it at 6*133 instead of 8*100. I'm going to unlock my cpu and let it run 7,5*133=1000 MHz instead of 10*100, and this should be very easy to do because of the jumperfree Bios.


--=Almighty One=--

 

[buck]

The abit kt7a has been working awesome with me. Ive only tried that and the kt7a raid though.

 

[DarthSideous]

I'm using the A7V right now and pretty fed up with it myself, so I ordered the abit kt7a raid, I should be getting it today, I'm pretty pumped..hopefully I should be able to really up that fsb...I've heard nothing but good things about it, so I'm giving it a try, I'll let you know how it goes