Need Motherboard info.

[bgavin]

there's nothing bad or wrong with via now, do a search [now] and you'll see, your quoting from years ago...

man, people get so onesided or onetracked minded thesae days...

I recently went through a KT333 debacle for a friend. Fresh install of WinXP Pro, and more issues with 4in1449.

VIA has a tremendous long history of bugs. I very much doubt that one day VIA woke up, decided to actually license USB and AGP from Intel instead of reverse engineering it. I doubt very much that over night, VIA quality control on their designs went from dogshit to wonderful.

As a computer professional of 30+ years, I recognize long-standing bad habits, and how hard they are to break. Especially when faced by stiff economic competition (nVidia). Cost cutting becomes the driving force. Watch HP right now... same thing.

Perhaps I am one-sided or of a one-track mind. I've been burned so bad, and so often, by VIA that I have every right to voice this opinion about their products. If one is afraid of the AMD chipsets, then by all means pony up the extra cash for an all Intel solution. After all, the Intel chipset is what everybody else copies.

 

[Fusion2]

I recently went through a KT333 debacle for a friend. Fresh install of WinXP Pro, and more issues with 4in1449.

VIA has a tremendous long history of bugs. I very much doubt that one day VIA woke up, decided to actually license USB and AGP from Intel instead of reverse engineering it. I doubt very much that over night, VIA quality control on their designs went from dogshit to wonderful.

As a computer professional of 30+ years, I recognize long-standing bad habits, and how hard they are to break. Especially when faced by stiff economic competition (nVidia). Cost cutting becomes the driving force. Watch HP right now... same thing.

Perhaps I am one-sided or of a one-track mind. I've been burned so bad, and so often, by VIA that I have every right to voice this opinion about their products. If one is afraid of the AMD chipsets, then by all means pony up the extra cash for an all Intel solution. After all, the Intel chipset is what everybody else copies.

i've built over 500 via amd board systems i expect and saw the amd760/kt266 issue you speak of, your comments don't add up today, via is the largest amd board chipset seller today and for years passed, how can that be if they have this awful issue with there chipset and still lead in sales? someones blowing smoke here...

usb is microsucks issue, not via...

man, your way out of touch with todays IT imho...

a computer professional of 30+ years, oh, your lost in the back years, and a intel trol no doubt...

 

[ChristopherM]

from the Aardvark website
Suspected Hardware Incompatibilities

Chipsets that do work:
If you are using an AMD Athlon or Duron processor, you will need a motherboard with one of the following chipsets:

AMD-760 (sometimes referred to as AMD-761-Northbridge and AMD-762-Southbridge)


Chipsets that do not work
Any AMD-750 series including;

AMD 750
AMD-751
AMD 752
AMD 756
Or any other AMD 75x chipset

So that's Aardvark, anyway...
My nVidia seems to be doing fine with it.