My VIA-based Biostar mobo (<a href="http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7vig+pro+d">http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7vig+pro+d</a>) has served me just fine over the past two years. I have an Athlon XP 2000+, a PVR250, a PVR150MCE, and used to have a WinTV GO in it up until four days ago.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. G. Newbury</b> <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jo Shields wrote:<br>> Mike wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> Francesco Peeters wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>> A friend pointed me to the PcChips M789CLU C3 2000+ MoBo, which has built<br>>>> in everything, but runs on a VIA C3 at 900MHz.
<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>> I don't know about other people but I've just come to the conclusion<br>>> that you can't use anything on motherboards infected with VIA chipsets.
<br>>> I've had way too many problems in the past with things like PVR500's and<br>>> it's PCB bridge and VIA's ill designed IRQ and DMA handling. I'm won't<br>>> even attempt to use them anymore because its just not worth it to me to
<br>>> find another faulty chipset. Everything, and I mean everything else that<br>>> I've tried in AMD, Intel, and SIS chipsets has worked just fine while<br>>> almost all VIA chipsets have had problems for me.......
<br>>><br>>> -Mike<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> I think that's something of a generalization.<br>><br>> KT133 had some major IDE controller issues. KT133, 266 and 333 were a<br>> little badly behaved in terms of PCI bus flooding (especially when a
<br>> Sound Blaster got involved). KT600 was uncompetitive compared to<br>> nforce4, if a reasonable chipset. The AMD64 range (e.g. K8T800) are<br>> pretty good, and considered a good choice for those wanting better Linux
<br>> support than nForce4 offers.<br>><br>> Personally I've had more grief with SiS than Via, and my K8T800 board<br>> works fine.<br><br>A very bad generalization about a generation of chips which are<br>basically no longer in use. I'm running a Epia SP13000 motherboard and
<br>all of its chips work fine. Need some tweaking for good performance but<br>that's all. I've had more trouble with my HD3000 card than anything else.<br><br>Geoff<br><br>--<br> R. Geoffrey Newbury<br> Barrister and Solicitor
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