Need Suggestiong for BEST SS7

[Prometeus]

Megaman ..., you are the best!

Everyone knows, that Aladin-V isn't a good chipset, it's only a GAG, ... but it's a very good GAG.


PS: I'm a VIA-User!

[Helevitia]

Now he's just getting to down right insults. Let's start with the basics then...

Go away.

[Alfie]

All this bickering!
Hey some people like their Via chipsets and some people like their Ali chips.
I think it comes down to the user.
The individual asked a simple question.
Are we here to help each other or compare sizes!
Who gives a sh*t who has what qualifications,why not a simple answer?
I gave mine!
What about Opti chipsets?
Why all this insulting and flame baiting?
I've said my piece,so how about some peace!

[Greebe]

Bwahahahahaha and that pompus additude almost cost you being on the Alpha Centauri team.
Little boy if I had all the experience you obiviously do, then I wouldn't be here wasting my time as a BB. If you wish to compare backgrounds try adding another 10 years to your trivial experience in being one of the very first to overclock cpu's, yah that's right 16 years now! Futhermore I started with computers long before then, like before there was such a thing called a PC. And guess what, this is only one of the many skills and abilities I have. So clueless take the time to check out my profile, because it only hints as to whom your speaking to.

Sure doesn't take much to get under your skin... and I'll stand by my comment.

Cheers (and still laughing)

[Greebe]

Mega(ASS)ManX4,
I don't need a "group" effort to crank out my WU's like you do and or borrow computer time from anyone else to manage the results. The computers that do seti are my own.
As far as age goes, yes I'm older, but then so will you be some day, Duh! In shape yes, overweight, not on your life. It's nice to know you have absolultly no respect for anyone whom has knowledge as you've so righteously shown. Your opinions are solely your own. You have never contributed to the wealth of knowledge shown by myself or others here. Your boundless mentality always degenerates into flaming anyone who doesn't agree. This is typical of boys like you, whom should never have children and be chemically castrated.

Prometeus, are you his bitch? Thought so

Now that this thread has degenerated into a F***fest do to you, Take Daves advice, go away

Any and all additional comments from you will result in... Bwahahahahahaa and that's a shame because your mommy and daddy had such high hopes for you!

[Compton]

Nice. Bwahahahaha. But what the hell do WU's have to do with anything

[MegaManX4]

Uhm, I'm hit hard.

Greebe, you must be very alone, very very alone.
This starts to bother me...
I can't help, but you started flaming, I only did the superlative of you posts. I even thought to excuse me for my last post, but now...
And as we see there are some people (hi prometeus!) who agree with me.

Mega

[EchoWars]

Voice from the 60's...(since we're talking age...)

---Can't we all just LOVE each other??--

---end voice---

hehe...silly to get all steamed about chipsets, but funny to read. After screwing with a MB by a manufacturer with a chipset that will remain anon. and nearly going insane, trashed it on the recomendation of someone on this forum and bought a Epox EP-MVP3G-M. G200 and all the rest of the hardware dropped in, ran, no lockups, decent performance...I think this board saved my sanity!
But, this is my dad's system, and he could give a rat's patootie (thanks for the definition) about gaming. Stability is most important to him.
Now..my OWN system has got to rock! so screw SS7 altogether. I'll take a CUMine 600@800 on a 133A chipset with my G400 Max, thank you very much (since I can't have a BX with a 1/2 divider).

Hmmm...I thought only the vid card fights got this heated...

[HedsSpaz]

Alright, no flaming, I'm just going to relate 3 experiences.
A little over a year ago I bought my P5A and other assorted parts to build a functional inexpensive computer(cause I didn't have a particularly lucrative job at the time, HelpDesk for my college). One of my co-workers also bought a very similar system. He bought one of the EPoX Via boards.
Now, I had a little trouble at first because I was used to *ntel systems with *ntel boards that didn't need any hacking or anything, ever. I did however eventually figure things out. I updated the BIOS, had to do it a total of 3 times for the entire time I had it. I located the correct drivers on ALi's web site, downloaded them, and installed them. And that was that. Everything worked. No strange driver installation glitches, nothing. Also, I am of the school that believes a clean format and install of windows every few months is a good idea. I don't know how many times I reinstalled windows, at any rate, I never once had any trouble. The only problem that I ever had with the board was that it wouldn't do AGP2X with my G200. I was even able to OC my K6-2 350 to 400 stabley, and mostly stable at 392 and 412.

Meanwhile, my friend with the Via board had no end of troubles. I'm not going to get into all the problems, mostly cause he didn't tell me what most of them were, but consistently at least once a week he would come in to work and bitch about how something else was wrong with his system.

3rd story. I just upgraded to an Athlon. I got the EPoX 7KXA. I will admit that it's not a bad board. It, for the most part, works fine. However, I have already been through 3 BIOS revisions. I have tried both win98se and win98 carefully installing the appropriate portions of the Via 4in1 drivers. Nothing has worked quite right yet. Not that it's particularly unstable, it's just that there always seems to be something that it just a little bit off. None of the 4in1 driver installations has gone smoothly yet. I can never tell if they actually did anything, and no matter how hard I try, I can't even get the system to recognize AGP1X! Now maybe it is running properly, I can't really tell. PCIList tells me that the G200 supports AGP2x, and the mobo does not support AGP at all, yet AGP1x is enabled. Now is that strange or what? Furthermore, there is the now infamous Win2000 AGP problem with VIA KX133 and Pro 133A chipsets. I had to hack the machine.inf file apart to get it to work properly.
The end result? As soon as an AMD760 based board or a board based on the new ALi Athlon chipset become available I am switching.

Via chipsets aren't bad, but in my experience they don't tend to work out of the box.

Ian

[Technoid]

My piece of this flame war:
This night I worked 1 and a half hour overtime trying to make a TNT2 ULTRA AGP card work on a MSI 5169!

At first i thought that the customers MB was equiped with VIA chipset; his descripting of the problem was identical to VIA+2PCI CARDS-IRQ PATCH=SHIT!

When he brought the system in i found out that he had an ALI chipset on the MB!

To make a long story short;

The MSI 5169 rev 2.1A is incompatible with All Nvidia GPU's after Riva128!
(The term "GPU" is as corect and misleading as "Graphics Card")

BUT that did not MSI thought important enough to mention other than crypticaly in the BIOS notes!!

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The blame should not be on the chipset!
Rather the company that is soldering it on a MB!


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INTEL PIII550 MSI 6163
G400Mill 32MB SGRAM + RRG
SBlive
256 MB RAM CAS2
43GB HDD Space!(Actual 40GB) (13+30 Quantum drives)
Pioneer 104S DVD 10x CD 40x SLOT IN
SONY CRX100E 4/2/24 CDRW

[dZeus]

Well... I've had the DFI P5BV3+ 1MB, and it used the VIA MVP3 chipset. First I used the Hercules Terminator Beast on it (S3 Savage). How wrong could I have been! I thought S3 finally came up with something good. What I did not expect, but I should have is: S3 equals driver hell. I updated the drivers a million times, and after 6 months of buying the card, it still was openG-HELL.... then I sold my Terminator beast, and got a Viper V550, which worked just fine in the VIA board. But only a couple of months later, I just ditched the whole SS7 platform. I was bothered by the mediocre FPU of the K6-2, and lot's of problems with the VIA chipset (it has a very bad UDMA/33 implementation, using over 50% CPU time with DMA enabled, when connected to my Maxtor DiamondMax 2500 Plus 10GB hdd. My BX chipset only uses 5% now :-)