On Sunday 19 August 2001 11:11, you wrote: > Actually WinME is getting all that performance because the op system > does absolutely nothing to work around the bug. You have HDDs on IDE0 > master and slave. If they were on IDE0 master and IDE1 either master or > slave (which is the usual configuration for best performance since both > disks can be active at the same time), then the first time you decided > to copy a huge directory like 100 Mb or more, from dirve C to drive D > the computer would chug along for a while and reset itself in the midst > of the copy operation. This is reproducible on an ABIT board of your > model just about 100% for Win95 win98 Win2k WinME and kernel 2.4 Kernel > 2.2 appears unaffected, and so does winXP beta. > > The northbridge KT133A has another problem about not being able to power > down softly (you have to switckh off the power supply.) This is > limmited to a specific lot af the chips and I have observed it on 2 FIC > AZ11s and several MSIs and ABITs, but never on an ASUS (maybe a > remainder of their once terrific quality). > > There are some configurations which interfere with our detection scheme > (the bug was admitted by VIA just days before release of 8.0) and go on > unprotected, and a few VIA MVP3 chipsets get slowed down unjustly > because they manage to look like the deadly configuration. The beta 8.1 > kernel, kernel-2.4.8-5mdk I just tested and we are back in business, > but still at VIA performance levels instead of intel, now up to > 20.82Mb/s and 23.7 after running drakopt, but still off the benchmark of > 31.89 with the same drive on an i810 based board. This is of course a > benchmark differnce and may and probably does have no significance in > real life use. > > But better chipsets are on the way for the AMD enthusiast. Remember the > NVidias are coming and we hope mostly with open source drivers, and they > won't be for Intel. The SiS 730 is a pedestrian chipset which goes on a > lot of low quality boards but get a reliable board, as say a Shuttle > with a 730 or even the mediocre ASUS A-7S, and it will probably never > hiccup. > > Civileme I'm really confused after reading all the messages about VIA because I am going to buy (in a week's time) a new PC, upgrade my current one and put together a third one from my current components- now I don't know what to buy! My upgrade *was going to be*: (my main PC) AMD 1.4GHz 266MHz FSB CPU Asus A7M266 motherboard w VIA VT82C686B South Bridge 512MB DDR RAM PC-2100 MSI GeForce2 64MB MX400 graphics card w TV out Creative Soundblaster Live Value OEM sound card - set up with IBM DTLA-307060 60GB ATA-100 (primary master) Quantum Bigfoot CY-??? 6.4GB ATA-33? (primary slave) HP CD Writer 9310i (secondary master) No-brand? CD-ROM (secondary slave) Linux Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk but want to update to LM8.1 My second PC *was going to be*: (to get my hubby into computers ;-) ) AMD 1.0GHz 266MHz FSB (my current CPU) Soltek SL-75KAV w onboard sound AC97 (my current mobo) Chipset: North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT-133A) with South Bridge VIA VT82C686B 256MB SDRAM PC-133 MSI GeForce2 64MB MX400 graphics card w TV out IBM DTLA-307060 60GB ATA-100 (primary master) No-brand? CD-ROM (secondary master) Linux Mandrake 8.0 - 2.4.3-20mdk but want to update to LM8.1 Other PC *was going to be*: (just for our surveillance cameras) AMD 700MHz 266MHz FSB CPU Soltek SL75LIV 266MHz FSB w onboard video & sound Seagate Barracuda III 30GB ATA-100 (primary master) Matshita CD-ROM (secondary master) Win98 SE I found all of these components available and reasonbly priced (total NZ$3700 approx- US$1620) - includes floppy drives, case PSUs, etc. I don't really want to go back to Intel (high price) and I don't intend to upgrade any hardware for at least three years after this. But then whats the point in getting something that won't work properly with the OS I want to use? Would it be advisable to wait another few months to see what comes onto the market? But then that's how I got caught out last time - getting the newest/latest system before any bugs are known. What about the Creative Soundblaster Live Value card? Should I forget it? If anyone has any recommendations I'd be very grateful. Totally confused! skinky
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