Socket A motherboards

[Nuno]

Yes I am also waiting for the 760 for the T-bird jump. Just say no to Via

Now really, Via chipsets are only half-decent. And that´s preety flatering, because they used to just plain suck. Driver support is awfull. I wonder how much Athlon performance is being lost in the KX/KT chipset... I think AMD must know, since they stated several times they don´t want to get into the chipset business, but they really haven´t much of a choice.

Here:
http://www.jc-news.com/parse.cgi?pc/.../00/ddrchipset

[Helevitia]

Himself,

Where did you hear that the Asus boards will have the dip switches for the cpu multiplier enabled?

Added in:
I found it at amdzone. Thanks! This is very good news. I'm 99.9% sure that I will buy the Asus board now.

Dave

[This message has been edited by Helevitia (edited 06 July 2000).]

[Alfie]

This is good news!
Upon further review of the photos shown around the web,with the missing block of dip switches(I'm sure most of you have seen them)
The missing dipswitches are NOT the multiplier dips,but are the voltage setting dipswitches!.
The smaller block are the multiplier dips(4 switches)The larger (6 switches)are the voltage and that's the one missing.
The multiplier seems to go to 12.5.
If Tom's hardware got Duron 650 and 700mhz to hit 950mhz out of the box,standard cooling,the overclocking possibilities are something to look forward to!
Personally I have a feud to settle with certain Celeron users(no one here!)
Vengence can be so sweet!

For those interested in the Asus board,the manual is available for download here.
http://cgi.asus.com.tw/cgi-bin/dl.as...7v/a7v-101.pdf



[This message has been edited by Alfie (edited 07 July 2000).]

[Himself]

http://www.abit-usa.com/english/product/kt7.htm

Apparently this one can be overclocked via the bios.

I think the thing to do is wait a month or two for all the cards to be on the table. I am really hesitant to get a Rev 1.0 board of anything.

[Helevitia]

The abit looks really nice. No udma/100?

Also, I see the first Asus appear on Pricewatch for $189.

Dave

[Himself]

The way I look at it, any socket A I get I will only be using until a DDR chipset comes out, in the meantime I don't have ATA 100 drives so that isn't an issue for me.