Why Do People Rip The ASUS A7A266?!

[Coaxial]

I just don't understand this. Ali came back and made a really decent chipset. I bought this board around a month ago and I haven't had one problem. The IDE and AGP drivers are solid, the board is extremely stable, and to my observation, it's performing as good as any other. I have not had one crash yet with this mobo and no conflicts with the bios, setup, or anything. When I walked into the store to buy it I did have second thoughts. ASUS has always made solid products and I'm sure they wouldn't incorporate the Magik chipset for no reason. Sure, the benchmarks show that the A7A266 performs like 2-5points max in all these tests I see. When operating your computer you can't even notice I minor difference like that.

I just really want to know why people rip up a good product like this? It's working perfect for me.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The Ali chipset isn't quite as fast, nor as OC friendly as it's competitors. And many still have a bad taste from the Ali V chipset (I do)

 

[joe4324]

I've got the same board and Basically everything you said about the board is true. it is solid,it does support DDR and SDRAM wich is nice, and basically its an asus product.

BUT......

I paid $140 for it when only a month later sis735 boards came out and other DDR chipsets came down in price (I was frustrated)
I bought 512megs of Crucial DDR only to find out that chipset performs so poorly its closer to pc133 performance unlike the other DDR chipsets (I was disapointed)
It would be different if the board at something about it to make it special, like Great O'Cing or built in SBlive and Raid or somthing crazy, but for its current price and considering what else is out there right now its almost a joke, I'm going to see if i can send mine back. I bought an ECS K7S5A a week ago and I'm going to run on that for a while. maybe it will actually make me feel good about spending $100 on my DDR and it will save me about $70!!!

in short its not that the A7A is so bad, its just that given its price vs performance compared to basically everything else out there, everything else looks SO good.

 

[Coaxial]

If I sold my A7A, I think I could get $220 Canadian. Money really isn't an object, what board should I replace it with in your opinion. I want a fast, reliable, and stable board.

 

[anandfan]

I think too many people can't see the forest for the trees! The forest being overall performance and the trees being the abstract benchmarks. If it works well for you, why switch? Like you said, in real operation the performance is virtually the same as other boards. I had an Iwill KA266. I thought the performance was very good; unfortunately, I was crashing about every hour even after I had spent a month tweaking it. You could find out a replacement motherboard won't work quite as well with your particular setup as your A7A does!