Geez, I don't know what to say. It's Christmas all over again I went from a Duron 800 @ 933MHz on an Abit KT7A-RAID to an 1.4GHz Athlon on a SiS735 board. What a difference that made:
1) Of course Windows XP is MUCH faster now
2) My hard drive scores in HD Tach under XP on the KT133A would never break 40MB/sec. Now they light up to 80 and off the chart.
3) This is what I thought was an ATi problem. I installed the Ati 3226 Win2k drivers on my KT133A system. They would flash and texture tear BADLY in D3D apps. But when I went back to the default XP AIW Radeon drivers, all was well (but no OpenGL support). I chalked it up as crappy ATi drivers. Well, I installed the same drivers on this SiS735 board and the 3226's work just fine
4) Had issues with my iPAQ dropping sync on the USB port. None whatsoever here with the SiS board.
5) Upon hitting shutdown, my computer would not shutdown. It would just restart. Now, it actually shuts down
6) Don't know if I can chalk this up to having a much faster processor (but I heard that it is a VIA specific problem), but when I would watch TV on my AIW Radeon it would stay at a gawd awful 100% CPU utilization at ALL times. I could get no other work done (or even have the TV in a small box) b/c it was hogging so much CPU. Stick the same card in the SiS board and CPU utilization is ~4% (updated)
What can I say, every problem that I had with the VIA board has been solved by the SiS board. I must say that I am VERY impressed
1) Of course Windows XP is MUCH faster now
2) My hard drive scores in HD Tach under XP on the KT133A would never break 40MB/sec. Now they light up to 80 and off the chart.
3) This is what I thought was an ATi problem. I installed the Ati 3226 Win2k drivers on my KT133A system. They would flash and texture tear BADLY in D3D apps. But when I went back to the default XP AIW Radeon drivers, all was well (but no OpenGL support). I chalked it up as crappy ATi drivers. Well, I installed the same drivers on this SiS735 board and the 3226's work just fine
4) Had issues with my iPAQ dropping sync on the USB port. None whatsoever here with the SiS board.
5) Upon hitting shutdown, my computer would not shutdown. It would just restart. Now, it actually shuts down
6) Don't know if I can chalk this up to having a much faster processor (but I heard that it is a VIA specific problem), but when I would watch TV on my AIW Radeon it would stay at a gawd awful 100% CPU utilization at ALL times. I could get no other work done (or even have the TV in a small box) b/c it was hogging so much CPU. Stick the same card in the SiS board and CPU utilization is ~4% (updated)
What can I say, every problem that I had with the VIA board has been solved by the SiS board. I must say that I am VERY impressed