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Posted: **Mon May 27, 2002 6:31 pm**

My Soyo K7vDragon is now K F C, and soyo wont respond to my plea's for a new one, since this one is only 8mo. old, so I guess I gotta buy a new one. I have an Athlon T-Bird @ 1.4 GHz, and 384Mb of DDR Ram sittin around, so I was looking at the ASUS A7V333. What do you all think, or do you got something better ??

Posted: **Mon May 27, 2002 7:25 pm**

I have an Iwill XP333 that I am extremely happy with. I don't know if it is better but the Iwill doesn't have the VIA chipset, which in my mind is good.

Posted: **Mon May 27, 2002 8:06 pm**

Just built an A7V333 for a friend. Very fast and I actually like the VIA chipset. I like the CPU overheat protection on it too. Just like the Dragon+. Saved my ass once already.

What's the speed of your DDR ram? If its 2100, you may not see much of an increase although you will have room for improvement.

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 10:41 am**

Well yes I only have some 2100 DDR, but I cant afford the 2700 at the moment. The board that just died on me, the K7VDragon, I will no longer recommend. Only owned it for 8 months, and the stupid thing has kicked out already. No overclocking, and it only got hot enough to shut down once, (before I but in some 80mm fans) Other than that, the board has given me nothing but trouble. On board raid never worked. On board networking kicks on and off, and basically its just a P.O.S. <<-- Just My opinion. -->>Although, When it did work for a few minutes, It scored really great in benchmarking.

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 12:21 pm**

If you have a need for USB 2.0, sweet onboard sound , and like to tweak, the A7v333 is nice. Only major gripe about it is the Raid version doesn't do Raid very well, IE; slow. But bios updates are improving it.

sethpa

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 1:23 pm**

im still diging my ak35.

Greg

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 2:21 pm**

Originally posted by d_b
I have an Iwill XP333 that I am extremely happy with. I don't know if it is better but the Iwill doesn't have the VIA chipset, which in my mind is good.

Ive heard this statment from several people. Just pure curiosity for future purchase refferances--whats wrong with the VIA chipset that makes people dislike it? like i said--just curiosity...

Dan
Titus
Gilly698@fuse.net

BTW--what chipset DO you recomend if not the VIA?

Thanks!!

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 5:23 pm**

I'm running an EpOX 8K7A+ (onboard RAID and AMD761 chipset) and it's great

Although, this board only has two DIMM's for RAM (and only supports up to PC2100). It is, however, very stable and cheaper than hell. I bought mine for $75 (refurbished) from newegg a while back. You can get it for <a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.a ... =Refurbish" target="_NEW">$66 refurbished</a> now. A lot of mobo for hardly any money

Like I said, my only real gripe is that it only has two DIMM's, but I'll persoanlly never have more than 1GB of RAM in my home machine anyway (only running 256 PC2400 currently)

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 8:13 pm**

did the soyo do any weird stuff b4 it died?

Posted: **Wed May 29, 2002 9:18 pm**

got my Epox 8KHA+ for 50 bucks refurbished off new egg and I love it...

Posted: **Thu May 30, 2002 6:00 am**

What do you guys thing of the Shuttle AK31A?

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.a ... 13-150-002

I'm getting close to upgrade time and shopping around....

Posted: **Thu May 30, 2002 6:13 am**

I am using 2 AK-31 rev 3.1 mobo's now and love em. Never a problem (yet) and a very fast board and easy to work with. It has worked fine with a 1-1.4gb tbird and an xp 1700+.

Only bad thing is the cheapy chipset fan Shuttle includes. On both of mine the chipset fan died in less than a month. Replaced them with an old 486 fan though, but now have this on them.

Posted: **Thu May 30, 2002 7:24 pm**

Do not buy a Epox 8K3A this board is a joke as far as i'm concerned... It has problems overclocking between the 140 to 166 range how wonderful the area that someone with a locked chip will hit and it won't work... I knew i should have just bought a damn XP333R.

Posted: **Thu May 30, 2002 10:34 pm**

Well, I got a new board and guess what... that wasnt the proublem. So it must be the processor im guessing. It wont boot to my harddrives, It wont load any windows os, and i cant do shit. I keeps saying ERROR --- Incorrect System or something like that whenever i try to install win 98, 2000, or XP.

Any ideas ??

Posted: **Thu May 30, 2002 11:37 pm**

I don't know if it helps but I just spent all night lastnight screwing with a friends older (socket7) machine.
Turned out to be the P/S so since they needed to get some work finished i had to pice a loner box together.It's kind of strange because i've been seeing that same thing in other post's and as usual I never thought to check it with a good
spare.Anyway it can't help to look.
Bill

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