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On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 12:44:03 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Flint wrote:
>> I just recently built a system for someone with this mobo. It works
>> beautifully, and the drivers installed without a hitch. Everything
>> seems to work just fine. All in all, a very good effort on the part of
>> ATI for their first entry in a desktop NB chip, and considering how well
>> it and their drivers work, I'd say this is quite a change from the
>> previous driver design 'malaise' which has been an ATI problem in the past.
>
> I'm glad to hear that. That was a concern of mine too about ATI, because
> of their notorious driver problems of the past.
>
> Does anybody know how good the performance of the onboard ATI X300
> graphics be in comparison to a 3-year old Geforce 4MX video card? The
> salesman was saying that this onboard should be better than the old
> standalone card.
>
> Yousuf Khan
I have read a few reviews of this board, as long as a person is running
windows its a good board. I have heard of people having problems with
drivers, and other problems with this under Gnu/Linux and the *BSD's, I
have also heard that some of the drivers for windows 64 are a bit beta,
and might be touch and go. This is to be expected of ATI, most people
will not buy this board to run with Linux, but check with the 64 bit
forums, of how this board runs under windows 64. I do think that the board
is X2 compatible which makes it a good choice for future upgrades, but
then again it all depends on the bios, I do not know the current state of
that.
All I have to say about MSI, is at least they have an online RMA form,
Giga-byte does not as well as a few others. In fact maybe sometime I will
tell my story about my nightmare with giga-byte socket A board. In the end
it ate two memory sticks, which as I speak are in the process of being
RMA'ed. In short I could not afford to keep it around, as it costs me too
much in time, and memory just because of their rma department.
Like we mentioned in other threads its probably a good bet that most
manufacture are using the same pcp subcontractors, all they do is put the
ic's on the board and slap their label on it. I know one thing, I find it
hard to pay 20-30 bucks for a board with the exact configuration of a so
called name brand. That's almost the price of a good stick of memory now,
or a dvd-rom.
Just look at how long your K7s5a lasted, I wish mine lasted that long, but
it burst its caps, and that is why I had to go with the Giga-byte, now its
MSI, anyway at least your buddy got amd, I am sure a lot of people in this
newsgroup will agree that's a good thing.
Gnu_Raiz
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