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10-09-2002, 01:18 PM
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naw, It only increased the CPU temp by 3 degrees at max load in Sandra. But still, its iffy enough I wont buy anything with a VIA chipset. My story and many others said far too many bad things. At least its a killer performer now though 
10-09-2002, 01:26 PM
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The Gigabyte boards (the version I have anyway) came with voltage settings all fucked up. You had to get a certain bios version and then tweak the vcore, ram voltage and AGP voltage just to get the damn thing to run ok. I fought with mine for 2 months before I actually had it running in a usable sense. I am going Soyo or MSI from now on. OH YEAH, Gigabyte's support sucks *** too. I sent them several e-mails and even a threat of a class action lawsuit and they STILL never responded. What a bunch of butt nuggets.
10-09-2002, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by twyatt' date='Oct 9 2002, 01:26 PM
The Gigabyte boards (the version I have anyway) came with voltage settings all fucked up. You had to get a certain bios version and then tweak the vcore, ram voltage and AGP voltage just to get the damn thing to run ok. I fought with mine for 2 months before I actually had it running in a usable sense. I am going Soyo or MSI from now on. OH YEAH, Gigabyte's support sucks *** too. I sent them several e-mails and even a threat of a class action lawsuit and they STILL never responded. What a bunch of butt nuggets.
The two things I wish I had done differently in my system would be, getting the Soyo dragon board (forget exact model), and not getting registered DDR.
10-09-2002, 01:31 PM
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Yeah, the Dragon looks like a kick *** board and the forums do not report to many issues with them. Go to www.amdmb.com and hear all kinds of horror stories about the top boards out there. Wish I had gone there before I got my Gigabytesass.
10-09-2002, 03:39 PM
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Windows XP Home ed
Athlon 1800 Xp
MSI KT3 ULTRA VIA KT333 Chipset DELUXE
512 333mhz RAM DDR
60gig Maxtor 5600rpm <---OLD
40gig western digital 7400 RPM(POS BROKE)
GeForce4 mx 64mbs
Toshiba dvd Rom drive
and yes asus MB's suck ***. I bought one and fried it to easy....
Athlon 1800 Xp
MSI KT3 ULTRA VIA KT333 Chipset DELUXE
512 333mhz RAM DDR
60gig Maxtor 5600rpm <---OLD
40gig western digital 7400 RPM(POS BROKE)
GeForce4 mx 64mbs
Toshiba dvd Rom drive
and yes asus MB's suck ***. I bought one and fried it to easy....
10-09-2002, 04:57 PM
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Home, well its a old set up besides the TV,
41" Sony TV
Shitty *** cablevision with all the goodies
Yamaha RX-V670 reciever- old, but the **** when I bought it.
Yamaha 5 disc cd changer
Sony Progressive scan DVD that is useless with my non-HDTV, lol ( new 60 sony wega is calling my name )
Onkyo EQ
Technics SL1200 turntable
Sony 4 head stereo VCR- hey, I watched tapes at one time, lol
AIWA dual deck tape - hey I listened to tapes at one time also, lol
Tascam CD-RW CD burner- QUITE the ****, I suggest everyone buy one
Bose front, Celestion front, Bose rear, Yamaha center
Yamaha powered sub
PS1, PS2
Home computers, you dont want to know, one is 2 years outdated now, the other 4 years. Only good thing is my old out-dated Creative 5.1 platnium sound card with external drive so I can optically or coax digitally run it to my stereo or external cd burner which makes better audio cds then my PlexWriter. and WINDOWS 98, YEAH BABY! Only on ONE re-laod too might I add, lol
41" Sony TV
Shitty *** cablevision with all the goodies
Yamaha RX-V670 reciever- old, but the **** when I bought it.
Yamaha 5 disc cd changer
Sony Progressive scan DVD that is useless with my non-HDTV, lol ( new 60 sony wega is calling my name )
Onkyo EQ
Technics SL1200 turntable
Sony 4 head stereo VCR- hey, I watched tapes at one time, lol
AIWA dual deck tape - hey I listened to tapes at one time also, lol
Tascam CD-RW CD burner- QUITE the ****, I suggest everyone buy one
Bose front, Celestion front, Bose rear, Yamaha center
Yamaha powered sub
PS1, PS2
Home computers, you dont want to know, one is 2 years outdated now, the other 4 years. Only good thing is my old out-dated Creative 5.1 platnium sound card with external drive so I can optically or coax digitally run it to my stereo or external cd burner which makes better audio cds then my PlexWriter. and WINDOWS 98, YEAH BABY! Only on ONE re-laod too might I add, lol
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