KT880 based motherboards, where are those?

[Nappe1]

well the power is 300W HEC (3.3V: 28A, 5V: 30A, 12V: 15A and combined 3.3 & 5V: 180 Watts.) (BUT NOT WinHEC, which is a completely crap. ) so it is not a crap. In any case, when I ordered the mobo, I also ordered Compucase's case and HEC's 375 W PSU. so that should do it.

most likely I am hitting on that combined 5 & 3.3 Volt output ceiling. (180Watts makes 90 Watts per line, which means "only" 27 Amps for 3.3 and 18 Amps for 5 Volts. and my CPU and GFX card definately will already surpass 90 Watts on 3.3 line, without even counting motherboard and memory. and that means even less for 5 Volts left.)




enough to prove that I know what I am talking about?

[Chrono_Wanderer]

i think you should consider an nforce 2... if u need audio, pick up a mobo that has sound storm, i heard its great!

[Nappe1]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
i think you should consider an nforce 2... if u need audio, pick up a mobo that has sound storm, i heard its great!

well, I don't need Sound Storm. I am happy with my Seismic Edge. (if it would be a brand new scratch made system, maybe then, but not as an upgrade.) Plus, nForce2 drivers (especially SATA and RAID) have been pretty bad and updates pretty rare. also, nForce 2 motherboards has only 3 DIM slots while A7V880 has four (makes possible have more than 2 DIMMs and still keep dual channel working.)

I have heard a quite few complaints about memory compability on nForces so, Like it or not, I am about to buy KT880 based board.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

lol ok, doesn't matter

my upgrade path is an Athlon 64 pin-939 anyways (with nForce 3/SiS and PCI-Express)

[Kurt]

Originally posted by Nappe1
well the power is 300W HEC (3.3V: 28A, 5V: 30A, 12V: 15A and combined 3.3 & 5V: 180 Watts.) (BUT NOT WinHEC, which is a completely crap. ) so it is not a crap. In any case, when I ordered the mobo, I also ordered Compucase's case and HEC's 375 W PSU. so that should do it.

most likely I am hitting on that combined 5 & 3.3 Volt output ceiling. (180Watts makes 90 Watts per line, which means "only" 27 Amps for 3.3 and 18 Amps for 5 Volts. and my CPU and GFX card definately will already surpass 90 Watts on 3.3 line, without even counting motherboard and memory. and that means even less for 5 Volts left.)




enough to prove that I know what I am talking about?

Look, numbers don't mean anything if the manufacturer doesn't respect them

It's easy: anything not Fortron Source and costing the same or cheaper is cr*p. Sth costing more than FS is *probably* crap too. Gittit

I now have a doubt about HTC. They might actually be HEC, in any case, they're the ones behind the Antec TruPower cr*p. Can't even reach their own ratings...and they're supposed to be "hi end"... /me vomits.

And BTW, the FS 300W has a +3.3 & +5V of 200W max. The 350W has 220W max...

[Wombat]

I have a 350W FS supply. I also have an Allied 450W supply, which is also a quality piece of kit at a good price.


NOTE: The power supply is giving out, early 2005.

[Nappe1]

okay, system up and running. mobo is Asus A7V880. update was pretty painless, except my Hercules SmartTV Stereo (BT878 based card.) doesn't like the idea of running via official (nor btwincap) drivers. DScaler runs well though. :? (so most likely it's driver problem.)

perfomance seems to be pretty much inline what I was expecting and with 2 Kingston DDR400 (hynix chips) modules mobo went straight to the Dual Channel mode.

anyways, I'll post some benches (1700XP+ on PC-133 SDR vs. 2600XP+ on DDR400) later on.

new PSU / Case is really quiet compared to older one, but motherboard temperature is a bit too high, so I might need to get additional 120mm fan for it. CPU runs much cooler than the old one.

[The PIT]

I thought Via fixed BT878 issue years ago. Perhaps they recreated it.

[Nappe1]

Originally posted by The PIT
I thought Via fixed BT878 issue years ago. Perhaps they recreated it.

if it would be hardware related, it should crash the dscaler as well.

So most likely, it is just me who messed up the drivers some how.