The abit KT7 Raid Board!

[davidkay]

I was planning on getting the Abit KT7-Raid Motherboard, but i dont plan on using the raid features. how ever i do plan on using 4 devices withouth slaving them. Should I still go fot this board, or just get a standard board. If so, what would you recommend?

Thank You

Dave

 

[office boy]

If you don't want RAID, but you want 4 IDE channels get the Asus A7V.

 

[LXi]

The A7V will be fine, or the MSI K7T Pro2 plus a controller.

 

[Shockwave]

The Abit is a fine board. Alot of people tell you "blah blah, this doesnt work, peice of sh*t" Well, ok, maybe some people do have problems. But, if there was so many problems, why is the board so widely recognized. And why oh why does mine work fine? Oh! I forget to mention, the reason MY Abit KT7_RAID is an amazing board with great stability and overclocking features....Heres the little sercet. An Advanced race of aliens helped Abit design MY kt7 raid and then collaborated with the mail man to make sure that the alien modified kt7 raid made its way to my house. So, if you want MY board (which IS alien enhanced) I can sell it to you. Otherwise, I would recommend getting any OTHER kt7 raid, which although not alien modified like mine, should still work just as good.......

 

[bogdan]

There is the 6 pci slots of the abit boards ( non -raid & raid ) againist 5 pci of the Asus board issue as well to consider. Although I personally do not see a need for 6 slots myself.

I have both A7V and KT7-raid boards and like the Abit board better. That is just personal preference maybe because i play around more with that one.

Both boards should perform flawlessly.

Another issue would be do you see a need for using Raid in the future.
I do not use it myself but got the Raid version just in case you never know.

bogdan

 

[LXi]

Shockwave:

Well I guess another kind of Alien from a star named Micro helped MicroStar to achieve their great overclockability and superior stability of the K7T Pro2.

 

[dc]

lol... from motherboards to aliens...

 

[Shockwave]

Lemme think....How did it go...
Is this a joke? I can joke.

How did you know!! Thats EXACTLY what happened! The aliens which helped Microstar were actually a spin off outcast tribe from the advanced aliens which helped Abit. The Phanons were the species which helped Abit, there lesser cousins Hyphons helping Microstar. Unfortunately, the Hyphons have always been technologically behind the Phanons. Heck, the Hyphons didnt even develop inter solar system travel until well after the Phanons were inter galactic. So, if want to trust YOUR cpu to reside in a mobo designed by the Hyphons, so be it. But for me, I'm sticking with the Phanons, there inter galactic cruisers, super fusion reaction cores, magnetically aligned floating cities and their Abit designed mobo's.

 

[Dulanic]

Just because YOU dont have problems, doesnt mean anything. Abit has had and does have a very high RMA rate. The only reason that board is so recongized is because OCers are too damned lazy to get on their floor and flip a dip switch.

 

[WetWilly]

Actually, lots of people around here are convinced Abits were designed by RMAliens

And there are other reasons besides SoftMenu III to get the Abit - the ISA slot, which despite rumors to the contrary is not dead, and 6 PCI slots. There's also what Abit doesn't have that's a plus - no AMR/CNR and no onboard sound. The ONLY other board with similar features is the Epox 8KTA series, and they only very recently got overclocking abilities. That said, my KT7 has been just as stable as any Intel BX board I've used, and I've used a lot of them.

 

[DaddyG]

Havn't seen you around much Wet one !!. The HPT370 controller on the ABIT board is pretty bad. Timing issues with both IBM and Maxtor drives are well known. Until ABIT begins to understand QUALITY and Customer Support, I won't use 'em. My customers deserve the best that I can provide them, and ABIT has shown they don't care.

 

[TomBilliodeaux]

I must defend Abit on customer support. As a first time builder, Abit was quick to respond to my phone calls of ignorance and very polite and helpful.
I read many post before buying the Abit SE6 mobo and am well pleased with its stability and oc ability. I am looking forware to the new raid SE6R board coming soon.

My suggestion is buy a board that many people use and that is not a new issue...6-8 months old. Raid is nice to have.

My use does not require gaming, so the onboard stuff saved me money.
No video card, no audio card.
Look carefully at FSB and memory. Here is where performance is gained or lost. Cheep memory will cost you in performance. Get CAS2,133 memory and components that will support at least 150Mhz FSB.
The SE6 will not support 4 masters.
W2K,W98,Linux
Abit SE6
P733,133 (locked-LOL)
Mushkin 128mb,133 Cas2
Maxtor 30G, 7200 ATA66
Sony cdrw CRX145e
<$900 hardw.

 

[jaydee]

Another thing is, the RAID is only $5-10 more, and thats a big feature you got on there, for future use. I don't know of anyone that wouldn't sacrifice 5 bucks for a RAID controller.

 

[DaddyG]

Jaydee, the problem ids the HPT370 Raid controller SUCKS. It has bad timing issues with IBM and Maxtor drives.

 

[vohwink1]

Asus A7V, you'll be happy later. Actually I just put in my order for one, but because I have both an IBM AND Maxtor HD already, so to spare myself trouble I just went for the Asus board. Which I think will perform as well if not better than the Abit anyway.

 

[LXi]

Shockwave:

The Phanons stoled the technolgies from the Hyphons, thats the reason why they are behind. Because the Phanons are just a bunch of barbarians that doesnt want the Hyphons to eliminate their habitat due to the technological projects they were doing. But since the Hyphons now control most of the Micro, they got the Phanons under control and got their technolgies back. Hyphons helped MicroStar to design their boards with the absolutely best technologies available on Micro, what the Phanons did was giving Abit stolen old techs. LOL!

 

[hubbs]

I'm very happy w/my KT7 no problems what-so-ever and a very user friendly bios.

 

[GT1999]

Decisions, decisions Anand loved the board, obviously - look at its rating. If the Highpoint was that much of a problem I would think he would mention it, but then again I could be wrong there. My friend has an MSI K7T Pro and it has been flawless for him, but it doesn't have multiplier adjustments. Now, I'd LOVE to get the MSI Pro2, BUT I can't find it anywhere! I want to get a 1GHz T-Bird, 256MB of PC133 CAS2.. now where oh where can I find a motherboard that will have excellent stability, overclocking, and a decent IDE controller - that is AVAILABLE?

The motherboard industry is worse than I thought it was. Argh!

 

[LXi]

Mwave.com has the K7T Pro2 just a few days ago, not sure why they took it off.

 

[GT1999]

It's because it isn't &quot;officially&quot; available yet.

 

[LXi]

Is it available, many people already got them from mwave.com, but maybe they ran out of stock or something.

 

[WetWilly]

DaddyG,
Couldn't resist another Abit thread

Jaydee,
Paying even $5-10 for that Abit RAID is paying $5-10 too much. That Highpoint chip may benchmark great, but isn't that great when running actual apps. You're better off hacking a Promise Ultra100 to RAID or coughing up for a FastTrak 100.

For that matter, you're just better off getting the non-RAID KT7 and adding the Promise or, if you insist on Highpoint, the Abit HotRod 100. If the KT7 dies, you can't move your RAID drives over to another machine. If you have the PCI RAID controller, you can at least move everything over to a spare/temp system with little or no downtime. You also get to avoid all of those onboard Highpoint conflicts (IRQs, SB emulation) noted on the KT7 FAQ.

 

[ZoSo]

No problems here with my KT7-Raid, no conflicts either. As with any board if you do a little research and set it up properly you should have no problems. There are several really good socket A boards, so the choice is yours. At the time I needed a sixth PCI slot, plus Abits power solution caught my eye and gave me some peace of mind, especially since I don't plan to upgrade for quite awhile,,,maybe

 

[LiquidTension]

Hey guys, I have a KT7, and I have a problem that you might be able to help me with. I just upgraded and got the soundcard, mother board, processor, and vid card all at the same time. I forgot to mention that I do have a Maxtor 20 gig hard drive. I install Win 98 and everything is fine for a while, then I start getting &quot;Ddhelp&quot; illegal opperations. Anyone know why this is happening?

 

[WetWilly]

Sounds like your video drivers. I don't have a Radeon, but I believe there's a driver set newer than the ones on the CD that's needed for the KT133. I'd install those and reinstall DirectX and see if that helps. Check at Rage3D for the drivers.

Good luck.