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  • #16
    Originally posted by Indiana
    Similar goes for ASUS (at least the AMD boards).
    Starting with the bad K7M, the ASUS were IMO not so good.
    yea that's true. Asus's AMD K7X board truly sucks. I have an A7A266... it suddenly burnt up... then i replaced it with an A7V333... it's runs the CPU much cooler somehow, but it jumps and restarts by itself sometimes My P4T533-C is very nice though. Brought it for 3 months and runs without a flaw, no freezing, random restarts, overheating etc etc. My P2B was alos nice two... the most stable mobo ever made by Asus .

    I wonder what the abit PR guys are thinking when they made the Abit motto...

    Abit: Your reliable partner

    Those guys surely are ionic

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    • #17
      The K7M was doomed to failure. Mixing an AMD north bridge with a VIA 686 south bridge just means trouble. That's why I had a 6167.
      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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      • #18
        Strange enough my problems with the K7M mostly were AGP-related.
        AMDs northbridge was the one that created problems with this board for me. Never really had much trouble with the VIA southbridge, but then this was the 686A, not B.
        But we named the *dog* Indiana...
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        • #19
          actually besides the power problem, my old A7A266 also suffered from AGP problem. For some reason i could only use AGP 1X. When i force 4x, the screen is completely corrupted. I think it's ALi MaGiK1's problem...coz it happens only when i install the ALi AGP drivers. Well... i also learn one thing: NEVER get ALi based boards.

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          • #20
            Strange enough my problems with the K7M mostly were AGP-related.
            AMDs northbridge was the one that created problems with this board for me. Never really had much trouble with the VIA southbridge, but then this was the 686A, not B.
            Don't forget it took Asus a good 6 months to fix all the BIOS issues... there was no space for a large HS, in addition to all the stability issues

            I reccommended only MSI6167 which worked flawless and was released before the K7M when the first gneration Athlon boards came out
            "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

            "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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            • #21
              Hmm... doesn't anyone use I-Will boards?
              P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
              Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
              And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, Parhelia

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              • #22
                I've always had really good luck with Epox boards. Never liked Abit, and always said they used iferior components.. hence the crappy caps.
                And I'm not very impressed with Asus either.

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                • #23
                  I'll vouch for Epox here as well...

                  As far as Asus goes, my favorite has been the Asus A7N266-C.....very good implimentation of NForce415D...
                  Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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