It's official!!!!

[Joel]

There is even a link to it on their main page.

<A HREF="http://www.epox.com/products/mboard/ep-7kxa.htm" target=_new>It's Official!</A>

Looks like a good companion for the 4x AGP G400s, or the new G450s????

Joel

[Muad'Dib]

There's a review up at: http://www.slota.com/reviews/chipsets/kx133/

[paulcs]

So, does anyone have any opinions on "integrated AC-97 audio support." I guess, at worst, it can be disabled.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Wombat]

I think I'll dodge these first KX boards. I'm sure VIA will get it right w/ AMD's help, but I still don't think I want the first revision of that chip to hit the public.

[Dyre]

I hear the Audio is decent, and can be disabled n bios and possiably with a jumper as well. Only problems seam to be very bad memory scores.. low bandwidth

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PIII 450 @ 504
generic BX motherboard
G400 MAX : )
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
Creative 36x CD-ROM
HP 2x2x6x CD-RW
64 megs PC100 RAM
128 megs PC133 ECC RAM
NetGear 10/100
Soundblaster 32 AWE
Diamond SupraExpress 56k
Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
1 92mm Sunon Fan
4 80mm Sunon Fan's

[Brian Ellis]

Hi!

I'd be quite wary of any m/b with a Via chipset. I recently bought a new computer and - contrary to the quoted spec - the m/b had a Via chipset. I was not able to tweak it better than about 1/3 the data transfer speed to and fro hard drives of the reference UDMA drives that Sandra offers (the disk was 28 Mb Seagate UDMA 7200 rpm). I returned it to my supplier on the grounds that a BX chipset was quoted for. It came back with what looked like an identical m/b, except for the Intel chipset, from the same maker, and Sandra told me immediately that it was working nearly three times faster. The m/b importer acknowledged that the Via chipset was "slightly slower" than the BX (slightly = nearly 2/3 )

In this case, the chipset may be different, as the processor is an Athlon, so I cannot say whether this would apply. However, caution is advised, just in case.

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Brian (the terrible)

[Technoid]

There has never been anything wrong or bad with AMD's CPU's!
But The MB chipsets available to use with them has almost always been crap!
Even intel's CPU's looks bad when used togheter with Via or Ali chipsets!
Hopefully VIA and AMD will produce something decent togheder

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INTEL PIII550 MSI 6163
G400Mill 32MB SGRAM + RRG
SBlive
128 MB RAM
19GB HDD Space! (6.4+13 quantum drives)
SONY CDU771 32X SLOT IN
SONY CRX100E 4/2/24 CDRW