On Wednesday 08 January 2003 21:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > I have a ECS K7S5A based on the Sis 735 chipset, very good stuff. > > It's by far the cheapest board arround here in Belgium (costs about half > > of the second-cheapest). > > I have four of these. The rev 3.1 boards have been great except for one > losing the second IDE controller. The PC Chips 830LR is an identical > board and may be a few bucks cheaper. > > The only downside to this board is the number of SDRAM/DDR slots. It has > two of each, but they cannot be used simultaneously. It does allow you > an easy upgrade path since your old SDRAM will work. > > > Performance is very good, and stability is excellent. Apart from me, I > > know 3 other people that own one and they're all happy with it. 2 of > > them are also running Mandrake 9 like me. > > > > The board has LAN onboard, which is very good, it is faster than the > > Intel 10/100 PCI NIC I had before. If I'm not mistaken the better > > performance of the onboard NIC is achieved because it doesn't have to go > > through the PCI bus (I could be wrong here). > > It also has onboard sound. One minor problem shows up because it's > locked to a certain frequency (I forget the particulars). MP3 playback > is fine, but certain applications that make assumptions about the > frequency will be chipmunked and high-pitched. Notably, the crossover > plugin will play Quicktime sounds incorrectly. Trying to rip DivX using > some encoders will require futzing with the audio encoding rate. Since > the OP is using a soundcard this is probably a non-issue.
I know 3 people who run instantly into problems with these board I would never ever advice an ECS k7s5a. MSI kosts a buck more, but I think it is worth the money. And the k7s5a is not the cheapest board, I know of one board for 67 EUR => KT266A chipset DDR/SDRAM and so on. I don't remember the name right now, but I can ask if needed. -- ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
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