You won't believe what Motherboard I just bought :o

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Thu Dec 27, 2001 11:45 pm

I got it from a comp store in Pacific mall called MingTech, itz small and crappy, but itz cheap, thatz all that really matters.... The XP CPU i got from em is pretty high quality, i'm running it @ 1.57Ghz right now with a crappy Alpha 6035 and 1.825v, max mem settings.

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Thu Dec 27, 2001 11:46 pm

The nForce board is nice if you're gonna use the MX board on it.... but itz really damn slow if you plan on runnin Q3 or any newer games..... Itz quite cheap tho considering itz got all that other stuff intergrated, but most DYI ppl have lotz of the extra stuff lying around anyways (Nics, soundcards)

joecool169 · Post by **joecool169** » Thu Dec 27, 2001 11:49 pm

I'm expecting my KG7-RAID Tomorrow

Got it for $150 will go great with 1600XP expecting tomorrow as well

joecool169 · Post by **joecool169** » Fri Dec 28, 2001 12:26 am

DANG IT!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

Hate throwin away 50 bucks

HongKongPolice · Post by **HongKongPolice** » Fri Dec 28, 2001 3:45 am

Umm...... you got RIPPED!!!!! The KR7A-Raid is like $160 USD.... itz wayyyy faster than the KG7

terrancelam · Post by **terrancelam** » Fri Dec 28, 2001 12:45 pm

I actually plan on using the on board sound, as it's better then what I have now (Supposedly it's a 5.1, I have the older SB PCI 128). As for video, I'm moving over my Radeon 64mb DDR as well. Just very interested to see how it benches!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 10:10 pm

Originally posted by John
I ordered the Iwill xp333 today after reading anandtech's roundup of the kt266a's (sold my dually system yesterday for WAY more than I paid for it ).

I want to see what this board is like now...

why? lol

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 10:21 pm

to tide me over i'd have hit up the epox 266a but ok man, hmmmmmmmm i got 3 256 meg sticks of ddr ram i dont need.....

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 10:28 pm

Originally posted by John

WE WILL SEE WAHT TEH BENCHMARKS ARE, OK MISTAR! NOW BACK OFF OR FEEL TEH WRATH OF DUAL PROCESSOR MODERATING

You are my best friend in the whole world

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 11:47 pm

the iwillxp333-r is kinda like ati

it 'sounds' good on paper

but in reality it is not due to limitations in the hardware/software

plus it's based on the Ali Magic 1 chipset, NOT the KT266A chipset from VIA

you will find out how bad that board is when you try it

i too was excited when i first got it, on the spec sheet it sounded like a Dream, but a Dream it was not

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 12:03 am

Originally posted by John
I ordered the Iwill xp333 today after reading anandtech's roundup of the kt266a's (sold my dually system yesterday for WAY more than I paid for it ).

I want to see what this board is like now...

How much did you make off it?

And where are you selling an entire rig that lets you feel secure about the transaction?

Oh yeah, and didn't you have another system besides the dual proc system?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 12:28 am

john is trying to have gay sex with me!!!

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 9:33 am

Originally posted by John
Just read another review at PC Stats

Same performance levels as the kt2166a boards.

Maybe you got a bad board brent, but I am hella excited to get mine and test it out!!

i was excited too, then i found out

i guess you will to.

then again, you are much smarter than me.

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 9:53 am

Unless they fixed the problems in your revision, which is possible i guess

You are getting revision 2.1 which is the absolute latest and fully supports AXP's

Mine is revision 2.0 and does not correctly support AXP's, However I just used a regular 1.4Ghz T-bird anyways.

I guess you'll find out

Memory bandwith on mine was NOT very fast at all, with max memory timmings, and there were NOT a whole lot of options to change memory timming wise

el bob · Post by **el bob** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 11:29 am

Originally posted by John
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1578&p=14

wow. they are running a 750*150 banner!!!! I've never seen an ad that big on any site yet, with the exception of popup ads that are only banners.

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