What's so bad about the Asus A7V266-E

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Kyrra

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From everyrthing I have been reading on this forums about XP motherboards, I have found very few things about people actually saying this board was good. What I would like to know is what actually makes it bad. I am a big fan of Asus, I always recommend them to other people when building a computer. I am currently running a K7M (slot A) with a 550mhz in it, so I am finally upgrading. I have been doing a lot of reading about different boards, and even setups I wanted. Was going to go with the MPX chipset, but boards out there just dont offer what I want for the price.

So what I am asking is, what is so bad about the Asus A7V266-E. Asus has a rep of being on top of bios upgrades and such, and normally fix any problems they have. If you want to tell any stories of how this board has treated you well and or bad, please do.

-Kyrra
 
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AA0

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The board is great for me, the only thing wrong with it is the thermal diode doesn't work, and I haven't seen any bios updates to fix it yet.
 
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dabuman

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I love this board. I haven't had any problems with it yet, but I also havn't had it very long either. There haven't been any BIOS updates yet, but there probably will be some soon. The BIOS updates should squeeze out some more performance and make the board more stable than before and take out some flaws/kinks that they found. I've not found any flaws or kinks yet.

The system that I have:
Asus A7V266-E Motherboard
AMD XP 2000+ CPU
Swiftech MCX462 heatsink/fan
Two 512MB Mushkin Enhanced DDR PC2100 memory
Two 120GB Western Digital 7200 RPM HDD's
Promise Ultra133 TX2 RAID controller card running RAID 0
Pioneer 16X DVD (slot load)
Plextor 24X/10X/40X CD-RW drive
Creative Audigy Gamer sound card
Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speakers
Antec SX1040 and 4 case cooling fans (2 front and 2 rear)
Antec 400W Power supply
 
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Kyrra

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<< I love this board. I haven't had any problems with it yet, but I also havn't had it very long either. There haven't been any BIOS updates yet, but there probably will be some soon. The BIOS updates should squeeze out some more performance and make the board more stable than before and take out some flaws/kinks that they found. I've not found any flaws or kinks yet. >>



If you notice any problems with the setup you have there dabuman, I would be very happy if you posted them, since I am going to have a setup very close to yours (cept no SB for me, getting the hercules XP sound card thingy)

I would love to see the thermal diode working too, but we are just gonna have to wait and see what goes on there.

-Kyrra
 
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Boonesmi

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i dont think its cause there is something "bad" i think its cause there is nothing "special" about it, and the price is way high

toms hardware guide had a great roundup of kt266a boards, you may want to check it out link
 
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EtOH

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Love my A7V266-E. I went through 2 dead MSI boards before settling with a good Asus. This board is fast as hell and rock stable.

EtOH
 
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WhiteWizard

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I just upgrade my A7V133. I'm disapointed becouse the Promise RAID chip is exactly the same than the 133, no improbments. Also my A7V133 runs my t. bird 1.2 at 1333Mhz flawless, but the 266-E runs at 1266 and hang at 1333Mhz (I change only the multiplier and set bus to 133Mhz instead of 100Mhz). Anyway, its not the same 1.2 t.bird, this one is AXIA and not an AVIA, perhaps is processor related. I'm gonna try raicing the BUS speed from 133 to 140Mhz, and see what happens.
Also, the board has many jumpers to select, one CPU type reserved and other for t.bird/palomino, but they improbe the RAID/ATA 100 selection to only one jumper, instead of two from the A7V133. If we add the fack that WinXP took my RAID disks and redetect absolutely no new hardware, no new chip version, no nothing, I conclude that the A7V266-E is the same than A7V133 but with DDR memory, an update for keep saling the thing. If you don't have it yet, wait for the A7V333, is about to be released, but dealing with ASUS, the testing procedure can delay the launch for 2 or 3 more months!.
 
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Kyrra

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Well, I dont have the patients to wait for Asus to put out a board to the public with DDR 333, so I am just going to use the A7V266-E.

Anyone one else that reads this and has one, what kinda of fans did you put on your CPU. I did a little research with this one, and one heatsink said you should have a dremmal tool and cut away part of something so it does not rub up against a capsitor. Well, I don't really wanna deal with that. So any Fans/heatsinks that you can just pop in there would be great.

Thanks ahead of time.

-Kyrra
 
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trebor

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i have this board and its great. also to the gut who wanted a heat sink you could just pop in see my sig.

I have been A little worried about it as i have heard ASUS baords can get the temps badly wrong. as in up to 10 C to low or to high
I really need to know if this is true with the model as my temps seem high at 67 but if it is 77 thats just to high

if you have any info on this that would be great.
 
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WhiteWizard

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Yes, I was runing my A7V133 with a GlobalWin FOQ32, the temp was about 52C stable, but the noice was imposible. So I had change it for a Titan D4T and the temp go to near 60C (top t. bird "B" series). So I added a 3inches fan in the lower front (piercing the metal for making a round hole, so it won't sound too loud). Then temp was 55C to 58C when playing. The D4T is good for DURON, I think.
In the A7V266-E I'm using a Titan D5T (the huge thing). Now temp is 53C steady, even gaming.
I've got also 2 PS fans in the upper back (a place for a reduntand PS). Got a 1 inch fan glued to the holes of the parallel and serial connector places in the case. Also 1 cooler fan from a orb cooler, with impacts in the side of the Titan cooler, one of the sides wicht is solid metal.
I'm now in summer, the temp outside is 33C, and is cool for now, but its raicing fast, tomorrow will have again 37C and more than 45C of sensation, this place is hell.
Of couse I just turn on my air conditioner.
 
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AA0

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I'd take that VIA chipset in a Asus board anyday over a Sis in a ECS board.

My temps are around 50C, which just isn't right. I'm using a volcano 6cu+ and it should be cooling it really well, I don't care about the reading so much as the stability of the chip, and the whole system is very stable.
 
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Paladin

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One thing you will notice in these forums also is that there are much less complaints about problems with this board than compared to the others in use. That says something pretty good. I've had zero problems with my A7V266E, easy to setup, overclocks great, stability, reliability, and great performance. ASUS does report temps higher than others, but that is not a problem per se.

I have my XP1800 @1.62GHz (141fsb), 512 (2X256) Crucial, Audigy, Vtek GF3 ti 200, in a Fong Kai 320b with Enermax 365 (350 Watt) with fan control. I'm using a SK6 heatsink w/Arctic Silver II, and a Delta 30cfm 60mm fan on it. temps are around 47-50 under load. Case is about 29.
 
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Kyrra

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Along with what everyone has been saying with the board, and almost all XP boards, everyone seems to go with crucial... I want to know why you would over like.. corsair. Pricewatch has crucial for $161 (same as crucial website) for DDR PC2100 ? CL=2.5 ? Unbuffered ? Non-parity ? 7.5ns ? 2.5V ? 64Meg x 64. Corsair of the same thing like like $163. Any reasons?
 
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Paladin

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<< Along with what everyone has been saying with the board, and almost all XP boards, everyone seems to go with crucial... >>



It's the thing to do, plus Crucial give %15 off to AT members. :)
 
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NicColt

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>I'd take that VIA chipset in a Asus board anyday over a Sis in a ECS board

here here.... do a search on ECS K7S7A and Soyo Dragon or A7V266-E and you'll see what we mean. The major diff between these three searches is that one is riddled with problems and the others are mostly questions, comments and opinions. I did say mostly, but nothing compared to the ECS boards. Although the SiS fansboys have been pushing hard lately, if you get down to the facts and use good judgement and considering all things the kt266a chipset and boards like the A7V266-E, Soyo Dragon+ 8HKA+ are very good boards, even the ALI IWill XP333 aint that bad. On the other hand if you like rambus and Intel then SiS could be the way to go and the money you save from the chipset will probably go into Rambus or Intel's pockets.
 
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Viperbob

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I agree with most of the positive post's the Asus is a rock stabile board ,good features,good sound ,and a little expensive. However you might want to look into the A7V266 -M it's got no sound or raid with built in Lan

Might be a winner if the moneys putting you off
 
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