ABIT KT7A or ECS K7VZA?

[LuckyTaxi]

Abit KT7A or ECS K7VZA

I'm looking @ the 1GHZ. Big difference in price. Which one should I go for?

 

[zzzz]

are you going to overclock? If not, then get the ECS board. It is not bad.
But I recommend not to buy SDR based combos now as you can get DDR based combo's about the same price.
BTW those prices are just average.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

hmmm...i'm not familiar with MB. I'm not going to overclock or anything. I'm just looking for a basic system. So,
you're saying go get something with DDR RAM?

 

[alyosha]

Are you upgrading an old system or building a new one? It does seem practical to buy DDR now. I upgraded and kept my SDRAM and happy with KT7a-raid, the difference in perfomance is only visible in the memory benchmark, but there are polenty of people who just have to have it...

 

[HappyNic]

hmm, instead of the ECS k7vza why don't you go for the ECS K7s5a instead. It only like $2 more. ex. K7vza-$60 , K7s5a-$62

For the extra $2 you get:

SIS735 chipset (run very cool even when overclocked),
DDRram or SDram support 2 slots for each,
on board lan (just as good as any standard lan card)
on board sound (ac97, it's not great but it's ok, and it's included
Work's with creative live sound card, no crashes.
4x APG, 5 PIC , 1 AMR
It's offical recomended by AMD, and supports the new Athlon XP CPU.
let's see what else is there...... oh, some claimed that it feel's faster at multi tasking but doesn't show up in any of the benchmarks, it has something to do with the Northbridge and Southbridge on 1 chip.

There's already a long tread about it here
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=570510

 

[LuckyTaxi]

good tips guys! i'm still researching. i've been reading a lot about these ECS MB. Some bad reviews, and soem good ones.
I came across this one which I may get.

Link

 

[Wildmana]

lilcam I have a KT7A, 1gig Tbird, 256mg Crucial PC133 cas2, if interested email me and i will make you a package deal. Using it now..