SiS 735 Chipset and Recording

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Was curious to see if anybody has tried out the new SiS 735 chipset with any soundcards? The ESC K7S5A looks to be an inexpensive, fast and stable motherboard for AMD chips. So, the next question is how it will it do in recording applications. I would be interested in knowing if anybody, or anybody you know, is successfully using the ESC K7S5A motherboard, or any SiS 735 chipset motherboard.
 
wow..

thanks for putting us onto this, ive researched it and found nothing but glowing reviews. I cant tell you anything now, but i think that this is the motherboard im gonna go for. it doesnt carry a VIA chipset which has a lot of compatibility issues with the Delta 66 + omni i/o im buying, and its very reliable and solid, plus it has room for expansion and its cheap at £70. Thanks again for mentioning it, or i would never come across it..

before people start moaning about it, Ive had a SiS motherboard for 3 years and its solid as a rock, and im not into overclocking so leave me alone now ive decided !!

RiCHARD..

ill get back to ya once ive got everything up and running to tell you how it runs. but it sounds extremely promising.
 
CounterToAttack, I would love to see you try this new chipset with your soundcard, but make sure you have a good return policy, just in case. It is not an easy thing to make a chipset that works well with streaming audio applications. VIA has proved this point. In addition, the Ali Magik has had problems. I have the Digi 001 and Ali Magik just plain does not work. I have a Gigabyte GA-7DX and 1.2 Athlon (AMD 760 chipset) and it works great in recording with the Digi. I also have a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in the same computer that works well with GigaStudio96.

The ESC K7S5A looks to be promising. But protect yurself and make sure you have the possibility to return or exchange the mobo for another if it does not work properly for your application. Most retailer will go for that. Good luck. I'm sure a lot of people are interested in your results.
 
Im getting it from a proper vender so i should be o.k. I emailed M-audio and they said that the SiS chipset is excellent with their products better than the ALi chipset (..and of course VIA chipset) which i was put off from poor reviews. He then said that the A7M266 Is fantastic as well, i think thats the AMD chipset, but i was put off since it was expensive and didnt support SDRAM... i think ?!?!?

This board just sounds too good. Stability and high performance. every review i read just backs this up and the forums for users is full of people blessing it. with no major faults. and with M-Audio saying SiS will be excellent..well that sealed it. I ordered one this morning with a AMD 1.2 Ghz processor and fan. This afternoon i bought some ram and later i hope to win an auction on a matrox graphics card. And then its a matter of putting it all together and ordering the omni when i get my Loan.

The upgrades only cost me £250 and it could of been alot more.

Fingures crossed. RiCHaRD
 
How'd this work out?

I'm thinking of replacing my mobo (Abit Kt7a Raid with VIA kt133) and the ESC K7S5a looks good. Just wondering if you had luck with this board?

Thanks
 
Bumping a thread that's over 2 years old.. :confused:

Anyway... My computer: K7S5A Pro + M-Audio Delta 410.
Works like a charm.
 
I've had some luck with the K7S5A. I got fed up with the bios continually resetting itself. That and 3 defective boards in a row.

If they work, they work. It is very hit and miss with ECS. Low quality control.

As for the SIS 735 chipset, works great. No problems with that or the chipset I currently am on, 745.
 
Wow a 2 year old thread. On the other message board I frequent, it would be long gone in 12 hours....

K7s5a? No real probs with mine. Get the bios reset once in a while. Never tried changing the battery. It could be a crap battery, but I think others have already tried that. Anyway I've build a few budget machines based on the K7S5a pro and they seem to have solved those little issues. Probably better of just getting an Nforce2 though. K7s5a pros go for $45, while a cheapie Nforce 2 goes for $65....
 
The bios reset issue is supposidly related to so so power supplies, or so the guys in the store told me. They said the guys in the back wouldn't even build with one of these any more unless the customer was purchasing a decent power supply. I 've been running one of this for maybe a year now with a Delta 24/96, no problems. It's a fast board too as far as I can tell.
 
Re: How'd this work out?

mada said:
I'm thinking of replacing my mobo (Abit Kt7a Raid with VIA kt133) and the ESC K7S5a looks good. Just wondering if you had luck with this board?

Thanks
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humm, your still in the pc133 ages, not that DDR is cheap right now, like 4 months ago $50/512/2700...

get a brand name board, asus, epox, msi, not that the board in question is bad but it is targeted as "buget" and that says alot in todays equipment... imho of course...

if your going to upgrade then upgrade, your not really upgrading the route you taking imho...
 
Actually th K7s5a has both SDRAM and DDR. Makes for a cheaper way to upgrade if you don't want to buy memory right away. I've had some probs with the boards being picky about SDRAM though...
If I was getting a board for a recording computer it would have to be some sort of Nforce2. Everyone says ABIT and ASUS, but I have been very happy with the Biostar's I've been buying lately. Solid boards for cheap...
 
I have this board...its ok, fast like someone else said but you really need to do a couple things to this board to get around the bios reset (not PS related...its a heat prob)

Seems ECS attaches the chipset heatsink with crap double-sided sticky thermal tape...it doesnt do the job properly of removing the heat from the chipset, which combines both the Northbridge and Southbridge into one chip making it a very hot-running chip...part of why its a fast board/chipset also FYI.

So you need to remove the sink from the chipset, remove the tape and replace it with higher-quality tape. I also bought an aftermarket fan and mounted it to the sink which helps immensly.

Also, I think someone mentioned SDRAM w/ the K7...make sure its not cheap ram...all I have to say hehe I learned the hard way.

K7S5a with a Athlon XP 1600 and a Audiophile 2496 and n-Track (Go Flavio!)...never have probs with it.
 
I also have the K7S5a with a Athlon XP 1600 and a Audiophile 2496. Works great. The only issue is that you cannot manually assign IRQs in the BIOS, so you have to do quite a bit of trial and error swapping PCI cards in order to get the Audiophile on its own IRQ.

BTW: directron.com has great prices and will assemble components before shipping. I bought an Antec case, the K7S5a, Athalon 1600 and CPU fan, Seagate HD, power supply, video card.
 
i've read the board was designed mainly to surf the web cheaply, and for office work, somehow a DAW doesn't enter the picture in this venu imho...

it may work fine, i'd hate to do all the config work to find out it didn't though....
 
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