Your opinion: Gigabyte motherboards

[Wiggo]

[b]The GA-5AX was a socket 7 board based on the ALi Aladdin chipset - didn't most boards with the Aladdin 5 have big issues?

I found the 5AA and 5AX boards to be quite stable and offered a degree of overclockin' but the EPoX boards based on the VIA MPV3 chipset afforded a better BIOS which made them a much better overclockin' board. :smokin:

But I'm finding myself leanin' towards their GA-7VRXP for the next PC even though the BIOS still doesn't have all the special features I'd like. :thumb:
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[neopolaris]

http://www.viahardware.com/kt333roundup_8.shtm

Just an example... :)

This is after this quote
"I think you guys will be surprised by their new boards."


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Cameron "Mr.Tweak" Wilmot
Founder and Owner of TweakTown

Ya, I'm surprised. Its a piece of crap. SURPRISE!!!:bounce2:
4xAGP DOES NOT WORK
fsb at 133 is a no go for 3D.

Thanks to Tom's Hardware Guide for rating this mobo #1. I fell for it.

:thumb: I wish I had never sold my K7T Turbo LE.....KMA Tom and Gigabyte


neopolaris

[Wiggo]

Well this XP1800+ and GA-7VRXP motherboard that has now been running test and benchmark loops now for 36hrs with no problems at all. :thumb:
It would have to be the fastest bootup board that I've come across, got into the Memtest86 boot disk 3 times before I got into the BIOS, wow <img src="http://members.optushome.com.au/wiggo100/spin3.gif">
I don't go much on the CPU thermal sensor though as I think that its reading the temp of the chips under the core of the XP and not the back side of the core itself. :(
There has been no problems with anything not working or programs not installing or running as yet. In fact I didn't hit 1 snag at any stage which was very surprising and so far will have to give it a 9 out of 10. :devil:
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[Moose]

Welcome to the side of the Moose ;)

[Wiggo]

So long as ya don't pull any of that "gay" stuff ya hear.




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[Moose]

....No....But I will open a can of whoopass on you...


**Opens a can of whoopass on Wiggo** :hammer:

[Wiggo]

Watch it boy or ya may get some of this <img src="http://members.optushome.com.au/wiggo100/fart1.gif">

[zzilver]

I've just finished building my second Pc so I can only compare my current GA 7VRXP to an Abit KT7-RAID.

And I liked the abit better.

The manual was a lot better. In my opinion the Gigabyte manual is really :cry: . The pages about BIOS are very annoying.

S.M.A.R.T. for Harddisks:
Disable -Disable Smart for Harddisk
Enable -Enable Smart for Harddsisk

All the BIOS functions are listed in this way. But it does not explain a single option/feature. So basically it just tells you what Enable and Disable means (50 times), and does a very poor job at this too.

So I relied heavily on this forum, to get it running properly. Now it's fine, and I am beginning to like it. Although I liked my abit better. The abit practically installed itself, and I never had a single problem.

I am still running win 98SE and I believe installing the Gigabyte would have been easier with an newer OS.

So in the end Gigabyte, turns out to be
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[Frost]

:D I'm an Abit fan all the way.. My wife and daughter have an Abit KT7A board versions 1.1 and 1.3 My spare is an Abit KT7A, my main computer.. which is the one that I'm typing this on, is an Abit KR7A-133 with 40GB ATA 133 Maxtor HD. :D

I've fiddled around with Gigabyte, MSI, EPoX, others, but I sure like the BIOS in this Abit Motherboards. Easy to tweak, easy to set up, and easy to get MB BIOS revisions and flash.

my 2 cents worth.

[Morgan_Lander]

I like Asus, Tyan, and SuperMicro, but I try out different companies when I upgrade. I'm giving Iwill the go with this LAN box I putting together...tried Epox, but the blasted board croaked within 2 weeks of purchase:(:thumbs do I may try them again, but companies with boards that die kinda leave me with a bad taste in my mouth...that and boards that don't work right with certain hardware (looking at ECS )