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Got MSI's new KT333 Ultra with PC2700 333MHz DDR last month and I love its speed and stability. Hasn't crashed on me once and everything worked right out of the box! I just wanted to know who you think makes the best AMD based motherboard. Epox doesn't do a bad job.
Best AMD Motherboard?
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Brian Frank 
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Posted 17 April 2002 - 03:34 AM
10's the limit in this forum anyway. Philipp or SHS can only change the Polls. I hate Abit!!!!
Now that we've got that cleared up, I've got the Epox KT333 board here, and it's a nice board---tho I would warn against it if you have a full tower with drives at the top, as the board has a really stupid placement of the IDE connectors at the bottom of the board. From past experience Asus would be another good choice.
If you want to overclock, the NForce boards seem to be mysteriously stripped of many good OC features. Even Abit's NV7/-RAID boards don't have the usual fair of options in BIOS. It's speculated that Nvidia is having a tight grip on what options are available on boards.
Now that we've got that cleared up, I've got the Epox KT333 board here, and it's a nice board---tho I would warn against it if you have a full tower with drives at the top, as the board has a really stupid placement of the IDE connectors at the bottom of the board. From past experience Asus would be another good choice.
If you want to overclock, the NForce boards seem to be mysteriously stripped of many good OC features. Even Abit's NV7/-RAID boards don't have the usual fair of options in BIOS. It's speculated that Nvidia is having a tight grip on what options are available on boards.
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Posted 17 April 2002 - 03:42 AM
Well Abit have made way more boards than VIA & NVIDIA - in fact I'm not entirely sure that some of the poll items aren't just chipset mfr's as opposed to actual mobo mfr's - so what if VIA & Nvidia [or 1 of the others] were taken out & replaced with Abit & Other? 's just a suggestion.
They certainly dont warrant and anti-abit 'coalition' 
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Posted 17 April 2002 - 02:46 PM
Well i have an epox 8kha+ and i love it but the onboard sound blows, i have to manually install lol nice sound but here soon i am buying a new sound card,but my fic board is the best damn board i ever owned
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Posted 17 April 2002 - 09:33 PM
There should be a "My head hurts" option 
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Posted 17 April 2002 - 09:36 PM
Well, I agree with Palos on that one.
Anyhow, I have an ABIT KG7-raid (Athlon 1400), KA7-100 (Athlon 800) and a stone-age BE6 (PIII 450) running great here, all mildly overclocked. Never had a problem with any of them, multibooting and all. While I'd agree that Asus is a bit more solid in some ways, they bring stuff to market later than Abit. Epox are propably good too, I just have the impression they are a bit more flimsy so I never tried one. Maybe Tyan would be a choice too, dunno.
H.
Anyhow, I have an ABIT KG7-raid (Athlon 1400), KA7-100 (Athlon 800) and a stone-age BE6 (PIII 450) running great here, all mildly overclocked. Never had a problem with any of them, multibooting and all. While I'd agree that Asus is a bit more solid in some ways, they bring stuff to market later than Abit. Epox are propably good too, I just have the impression they are a bit more flimsy so I never tried one. Maybe Tyan would be a choice too, dunno.
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