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  • Kooldino
    Super MURCer
    • Nov 2002
    • 3026

    #1

    Kt600 is out...

    I'm not impressed. But it's not bad. Read about it here:
  • The PIT
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 11901

    #2
    Erm Via mmmm no thanks.
    Chief Lemon Buyer no more Linux sucks but not as much
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    • Goc
      MURCer
      • Sep 1999
      • 852

      #3
      Somehow I don't believe they solved their PCI bandwidth problems....
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      • Dr Mordrid
        Moderator
        • Apr 2001
        • 26592

        #4
        I won't believe it until I see it...and it's going to be on someone elses nickle

        Dr. Mordrid
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        • Chrono_Wanderer
          Super MURCer
          • Mar 2002
          • 2540

          #5
          VIA? No! They try to fix stuff? hmm... expect an opposite / side effect!

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          • High_Jumbllama
            Super MURCer
            • Dec 1999
            • 4522

            #6
            Ack! It has Highpoint Raid!!

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            • WayneHu
              MURCer
              • Sep 1999
              • 180

              #7
              Should we call it KT400A ?
              P4-2.8C, IC7-G, G550

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              • bsdgeek
                Super MURCer
                • Feb 2002
                • 1543

                #8
                No, they made a KT400A. So it is KT400B!

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                • thop
                  Super MURCer
                  • Mar 2001
                  • 2536

                  #9
                  That f*cking KT133(?) on my K7ZVA made me swap my soundcards twice until i found the solution to get rid of the crackling ... i simply kicked out that damn POS mobo after i spent countless hours changing registers and applying latency patches by some george guy and others.

                  Now i'm a SIS friend I won't buy VIA KT* chipset based mobos anymore even if they will fly me to the moon!
                  no matrox, no matroxusers.

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                  • Byock
                    Super MURCer
                    • Jul 2000
                    • 2328

                    #10
                    I am using a KT400. This is my first and last VIA MB.
                    "I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned."

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                    • RhinoZ
                      MURCer
                      • Jul 2001
                      • 843

                      #11
                      Yep, I'm done with Via too. Reading all the problems you guys faced and my own problems, it's not worth the chance. I';; stick with SIS, but now my problem (which is a good problem) is do I go with AMD again or try the new Intel's

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                      • The PIT
                        Super MURCer
                        • Aug 1999
                        • 11901

                        #12
                        KT133A the worst chipset ever released.

                        Amazingly people are still complaining about machines crashing or not working with new hardware when using this chipset.
                        Chief Lemon Buyer no more Linux sucks but not as much
                        Weather nut and sad git.

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                        • agallag
                          Super MURCer
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 3201

                          #13
                          If I was in the market right now, I'd buy intel for sure. Those 2.4C chips are looking pretty sweet, along with an i865 mobo. I'm using a KT333 based board right now. I don't have any serious problems with it, but it just doesn't feel "right", ya know?
                          Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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                          • The PIT
                            Super MURCer
                            • Aug 1999
                            • 11901

                            #14
                            Originally posted by agallag
                            If I was in the market right now, I'd buy intel for sure. Those 2.4C chips are looking pretty sweet, along with an i865 mobo. I'm using a KT333 based board right now. I don't have any serious problems with it, but it just doesn't feel "right", ya know?
                            Next upgrade for me methinks.
                            Chief Lemon Buyer no more Linux sucks but not as much
                            Weather nut and sad git.

                            My Weather Page

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                            • Dr Mordrid
                              Moderator
                              • Apr 2001
                              • 26592

                              #15
                              Originally posted by agallag
                              If I was in the market right now, I'd buy intel for sure. Those 2.4C chips are looking pretty sweet, along with an i865 mobo. I'm using a KT333 based board right now. I don't have any serious problems with it, but it just doesn't feel "right", ya know?
                              Careful about those Intel chipsets too as they have been producing lemons of late. At the very least the E7205 (Granite Bay) and the E7505 both have a screwed AGP implementation.

                              Stability can be partially restored by disabling the AGP Prefetch Cache (performance hit?), but another problem is that the bus timing for AGP8x is also off key. This too can be mitigated by down-clocking the AGP to 4x, but again you're not getting what you pay for. Intel states in their notice on these that NO fixes are forthcoming for either issue.

                              Doesn't this sound a lot like the VIA MVP3 problem with the write cache pipeline?

                              Dr. Mordrid
                              Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 3 July 2003, 14:14.
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