GoldenBear - Trust me, that's a lot. The good thing is I have forgotten all, but the bad thing is I don't know anything now ;)
Nonetheless, Masters is all I ask for... No PhD for me, I am not that type of person. ;)
Thanks Andy, it was really nice to meet you after my commencement. My name must stands out pretty well, since you were able to recognise it from hundreds of names in the book, and you were able to find out how I look as well :D
Now I am done, it's time for another stage of my life... work...
kgraeme - we know what's missing, so.... argh, i didn't say anything ;) Just keep checking the site, and make sure you guys tell us what you wanna know. this is a very good way for us to know what to have on our site.
and don't worry about linking to Tom's Hardware, it's welcome here. :)...
We got an email from IWILL about the issue with their KK266 1.2 motherboard. Here's the email:
<< Recently, we've seen great success in our KK266 motherboard, however with great success also comes responsibility. Our most recent version 1.2 KK266 has had a resistor failure causing...
Pyro - we will see what we can do about it, thanks for the suggestion. and yes, we will change to a more stressful stress tests in order to really find out about the ability of the motherboards. don't worry, we may not reply, but we listen ;)
Dulanic - are you refering to whether they post at 133MHz? Yes, they do. As I said, the system posted at 133 x 6 and entered Windows flawlessly (the default multiplier is 8, and we are sure 133 x 8 doesn't work at all). We also tried rebooting the sytem, shut down and restart, you name it...
the stability rating is across all boards (this is the only score you can compare with other boards besides the KT133A chipset). we didn't use to mention the total number of crash rate, but in the recent reviews we decided to reveal that number as well so you guys can have a better idea...
To discuss it further, I think the problem is during the first few cycles of booting up the machine, does the system look at the default multiplier or the modified multiplier. We haven't gotten any words from VIA about the issue, so all we could do now is guessing.
From what we have tested so...
ummm, not really. When the jumper is in the 100MHz position and the multiplier was changed from 8 to 6, every time a reboot (without a single shut down) the system always booted at 600MHz (without any problem).
Now we were forced to shut down the computer once coz' we had to change the jumper...
And BTW, I think this board is not as widely available as those by ASUS, ABIT, or MSI, BUT it is not that bad as well. I was still able to find them in stock in a lot of on-line stores, so if you like the board and want to get one, you should still be able to find it at a reasonable cost.
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