On Wednesday 26 February 2003 16:35, Aaron Matteson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 3:14 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: > > > > > But the issues with > > > Via are more pronounced. > > > > > > What sort of problems are you seeing, Aaron? > > Mainly stability issues, ranging from the IDE controller to the actual > chipset. The most prevalent of the symptoms is data corruption. > > The good thing about Via is that they do perform a little better, but is > it worth sacraficing stability for slightly faster? > > There are a lot of Via customers that have never had any problems, same > old story with every other manufacture. I guess what i am trying to get > at is buying Via is a little like russian roulette.
I guess you are right, but it depends a lot on the manufacturer with via chipsets and on the particular chipset. I for myself have a msi 6330 aka kt7pro2a with a kt133a /apollo super chipset. I'm very happy with it and never ever had any problems. A friend of mine has a epox 8kta3+ and he had in the meantime so many stability issues ... the chipset is too a kt133a . I would stay away from kle133 and all the cheapy chipsets from via. For sis I have seen the k7s5a Rev. 3.0 from Elitegroup (?) and stability, installation and the overall-behavior was really crappy. The rev 1.0 and 3.1 was told me to be fine. The asrock **T** was tested as slow but stable. So for 60 EUR I wouldnt say this thing is bad. If I would have a wish I would wish me a intel bx 440 mainboard for duron ;) -- Regards Steffen ____________________ 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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