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Anonymous   03-08-2001 at 06:32:24 PM

I'm new at this so my @#$ is in your hands. I'm building a PC and it's tough to pick a chipset. I hear bad commits about VIA (on this forum) but is it real or is it attitude. Also, what's the advantage to KT over KX?

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TheSandman   03-08-2001 at 08:09:12 PM
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for the tbird/duron go for the kt133a chipset and for the p3 go for the 815ep.

SANDMAN

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Crashman   03-09-2001 at 07:30:32 AM
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For the T-Bird I recommend the AMD 760 or ALi MAGiK1, with the AMD 760 performing better. Both use DDR.
For the PIII I recommend the i815E chipset.

Suicide is painless...........

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Crashman   03-09-2001 at 07:56:24 AM
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F*ck VIA, you screwball, the MSI K7-Master-S is the best board for the Athlon C, and has the superior AMD 760 Chipset.

Suicide is painless...........

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Anonymous   03-09-2001 at 02:13:59 PM
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Why all the insults, why cant you just provide the facts. We all know Via has incompatibilty problems. Yet it depends entirely on your configuration if they surface or not and with the new chipsets i dare say the conflicts are easily resolved.
The AMD760 chipset mentioned also has some minor problems in that it is picky memory wise, but other then that it is a great board. Also the i815e is a good chipset if you are using a intel processor (not p4).

regards,


Hey man i dont know .. i just think i do !!

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LTJLover   03-09-2001 at 05:13:42 PM
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where can I find the K7 Master? I searched pricewatch for K7 Master and nothing showed up

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

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Anonymous   03-09-2001 at 06:06:49 PM
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I'm with you... I have searched far and wide for just the K7 Master, not even the SCSI version and have been very unsuccessful. ANYONE know where to get this board or atleast let me know its not available yet

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Anonymous   03-09-2001 at 11:00:42 PM
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I have the kt133 and it causes my geforce 2 card to lock up the system. I have tried everything, bios settings, via drivers and still no luck. when I put in my voodoo banshee card all my problems were fixed. i don't even know the point of having an agp slot on the board if it doesn't work right.

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mbaha   03-09-2001 at 11:08:08 PM
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Mrchir5-

Ya mine works. Just because you can't make it work does not mean that Via does not work with geforce2
mbaha


"Work is the curse of the drinking class"

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LTJLover   03-10-2001 at 01:02:40 AM
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I agree. Just because yours has issues doesn't mean VIA chipsets don't work with GF2's. I have built 2 KT7 platforms. One with a GF2 and one with a GF2MX. Both run fine. There can be many problems with your setup which cause the issues.

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

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Anonymous   03-10-2001 at 03:05:47 AM
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I would sure recomed a T-Bird or Duron based system (im sure Tom agree..)
Go for a VIA KT133A based Motherboard.
Abit and ASUS are good, you could save some $ buying another brand, but the Motherboard is a bad place to save $

I have vust built a Tbird 900 - ASUS A7V133 Mobo with Geforce 2MX. This system was very easy / throoblefree to install.
My exp. is that recent VIA troobles usualy is driver related.

PS: Im not a AMD/VIA fan, I pers. run a INTEL Celeron 566@952 Mhz. BX based system.

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Anonymous   03-10-2001 at 03:19:31 AM
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The K7 Master isn't out yet. I checked all over the net with people that say they have them but they really have the K7T motherboard. There are people on this channel that claim to have them for sale but they're pulling your leg to, because I emailed them with no response. I read somewhere they might be available mid or late March.

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Anonymous   03-10-2001 at 05:09:47 AM
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wusy..plz check your hotmail email account..
This is urgent..

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Booky   03-10-2001 at 06:20:32 AM
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I found it on a few web sites, but it was between $195 and $215. That was just the Master, not the Master-S(with onboard SCSI). It cost too much. I want one too but the only places I found it are a rip off.

Someday I will stop asking all the questions!

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BigRat   03-10-2001 at 04:02:53 PM
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that's weird. i had the same problem with my creative geforce 2MX too. but mine was solved when i installed the 4-in-1 drivers. i couldn't remember which version but it came with the mobo. i'm currently using ver 4.28 and detonator 6.50

I'm not dumb. Neither am I stupid. I'm just not that smart

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Anonymous   03-10-2001 at 04:19:33 PM
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I think I will try another geforce 2(sold my hercules card on ebay long time ago). They have the ino3d on pricewatch for like 77 bucks. maybe with a different card and new drivers I can get it working, if not im selling my mobo on ebay. but i have to say i just finished Alice on my setup with a voodoo banshee and a duron 700 and it ran very nice! don't know why im upgrading anyway...

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Anonymous   03-12-2001 at 04:42:50 AM
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HI,
you are correct in asking which chipset..

if you do not want an outdated chipset or compatibility problems, go with an INTEL chipset..
the P4 chipset 850 has many advantages that via or ALI or AMD do not, and it used by MS and video card makers as a testbed when they design their products.

the latest 815's and 820's are good too...

they support things like RAMBUS, ATA 100, AGP PRO,
direct IO routing, etc and have room to grow and will not be changed in the next 3 months like so many of VIA's chipsets are..

the P3 chipsets will have legs to 1.2 mhz and the P4 chipsets to 2 GHZ

hope that helps
CAMERON


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Anonymous   03-12-2001 at 04:47:18 AM
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If you knew anything about hardware or tech support you would know that ELSA, CL, ASUS , and Nividia get more complains with GF 2 not working on VIA and AMD chipsets in general that anything other problem because they do not adhere to the true AGP spec which INTEL owns a patent on..

more spwe from mr winner you huh

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