Mobos

[Dart]

From what was said in the "Sound Blaster" thread, and its about time i got a new mobo anyway

Whats the best AMD chipset mobo atm then?
not including the duel one though

looks like ABIT KG7-RAID with AMD 760 chipset?

and what about NVIDIA nForce chipset anyone know much about this?
i know its basically a cut down version of the technology NVIDIA developed for the Xbox, and the Xbox specs are currently well beyond even the most adanced products available for the PC market

 

[Rochdale]

The KG7-R only has the AMD northbridge, it still has the VIA southbridge. The NVidia chipset motherboards are supposed to be a bit flaky at the moment and they get outperformed by the new VIA chipset.

 

[Dart]

So what would you sujest at the moment m8?

 

[Rochdale]

If you don't want a Dual AMD machine then the only choice is to get a P4 with an Intel chipset motherboard. There is nothing wrong with motherboards with VIA chipsets, I'm just wary of them.

 

[Ky]

Isn't that a bit like saying "There's nothing wrong with Che Guevara, he's just a Nazi in disguise?"

 

[Mauler]

Or you could be sensible and sack off a P4 altogether...unless you want a server, and then IMO you'd be better with Dual MP's.

Get a mobo with the AMD761 chipset...like my EPoX EP-8K7A(+)...even tho it's still got the VIA 686B Southbridge...which has given me, my Live 5.1 and XP Pro rig no problems whatsoever.

>;]

 

[Mithrandir]

I can vouch for VIA chipsets - they honestly don't have as many problems as people think - all the 686b problems have been patched out with BIOS updates now. I have an IWill KK266-R mobo with SB Live! 5.1 and it's 100% stable under WinXP Well, apart from a bug in the SB Live! XP drivers which clobbers me every couple of weeks...

But anyway, the KG7 is probably the sweetest Socket A board around right now. Unless you wait for the IWill XP333 - which will decimate all Actually, I think it's meant to be out - I can't find anywhere that sells it though. Avoid any board based on the original KT266 chipset though - if you overclock it, USB won't work.

I couldn't recommend a P4 system unless you have cash to burn on it, simply because you could get a much faster system for your cash going the AMD route. If money was no object however, I would have to favour the P4 + RDRAM combination - it's pretty sweet.

 

[Dart]

I got Abits KT7-RAID atm using VIAs Apollo KT133 chipset

Id like to get a new mob