Abit KA7-100 + G400 Max

[BreadFan]

I am coming into a little money and was thinking of getting an Abit KA7-100, an Athlon 800MHz, and 256 MB Mushkin (NEC) PC133 RAM. My current system is in my sig below. Just curious if there are any issues with the G400 Max and the KX133 chipset. If there are issues with the chipset and the G400 Max, what would you reccommend I upgrade with the $800 I am coming into? Thanks in advance.

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BreadFan

Soyo SY-6BA+IV , Pentium III 500MHz, SoundBlaster Live Value, 20.5gb IBM 34 GXP ATA/66 hard drive, 384mb PC100 RAM, 3Com 3C905 TX 10/100 PCI NIC, and a freakin' awesome Matrox G400Max!!

[Damien Green]

This is pretty much the same configuration as I'm running at the moment. There are no issues with the G400/KX133 chipset as such - only the problem of identifying the chipset under Win 2K - CPU - AGP bridge etc. isn't correctly identified. However, the latest patch from Via solves the problems. Other than this, I've had no problems with my G400/KA7 combination.

System specs:

Athlon 800
256MB PC133 Ram
Abit KA7
Matrox G400 Max

[Nuno]

Wait a couple of weeks, Athlon prices are coming down 20-30%

[anid]

Just set up an Abit KA7 w/ G400 myself. Only problem I've had is I can't get AGP 4x to work, but I don't know that I'd really consider that a problem. Setup under Win98SE was as smooth and easy as on any BX board I've done, so no complaints or problems here.

System: K7 750@935, Abit KA7 (beta BIOS) 128MB Mushkin Rev 1.5 CL2 @146, SB Live, G400 32MB DH. Now I just wish it was mine...

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