Why is everyone hot for the Iwil!?!?!!

[DoctorM]

Where's that KT133A roundup when you need it?
I was going to buy the IWill based on features and Anandtech's glowing review.
But then I start digging and I want to know why they raved about it?
The better Raid controller aside (I'm not getting a board with a Raid), point for point the Iwill should come in second or third.

The Iwill has a lowest voltage of 1.5 volts, but the Asus A7V133 and Abit KT7A can hit as low as 1.1v giving them a leg up on future AMD chip cores.

The Iwill hits a top fsb of 166 and the Abit (is suppose to hit) 183.

The top overclock of the Iwill only edges out the competition by about 1 point (given that's without a fan on the chipset), but stock this isn't a huge difference.

The asus and abit beat out the Iwill on winstone 2k content creation. And Abit beats it for Quake 3 scores.

And now both the Abit and Asus give a more likely fsb overclock without whipping out your dremal and cutting bridges.

I'm leaning toward the ABit at this point because I still have an ISA modem, but what is everyone seeing in the Iwill that I'm just missing?

 

[rempe]

Simple Price Performance Good CUSTOMER Support and stability.KK266 1.1C@ 1318 155 fsb.Ive tryed all the abits asus msi epox and was looking for something diffrent.The onboard sound is good and it also has a ISA slot.But its all personal prefrence.

 

[PlunX]

I wish I wasn't one of the few people that've had non-stop problems with the IWill KK266.. Out of five of them, four had cold booting and multiplier problems...

 

[nino]

The Iwill can now go down to 1.1 volts with the latest bios flash along with FSB up to 200Mhz and also memory tweaks that will allow it to perform on par with the Abit and Asus boards if not better.

Other than those small upgrades I'd say incredible service, great board, cheap price (which includes an onboard hardware sound chip).

 

[wQuay]

I have a KK266 and couldn't be happier. True, the first few days were hell, but I just didn't know what I was doing

Also, the CMOS battery was dead