Anyone hearing any bad things about the Abit IS7?

SkaGoatMaster · Jul 13, 2003

I'm building a system for a friend, I would like to know what bad stuff has been passed on about this board (not in the loop on Intel boards)

Graphic67 · Jul 13, 2003

The Abit forum is down right now, but should be up sometime tomorrow morning...

http://forum.abit-usa.com/

Chong345 · Jul 13, 2003

The ABIT IS7 is a pretty good board. I haven't run into any issues as of yet and I use it 24/7. It has a lot of nice features and overclocks well too.

Joey

Derivative · Jul 13, 2003

Other than the incorrect temp readings (which also affects the IC7 I believe) it is a great board.

ZhaoYun · Jul 13, 2003

I agree. Other than the Temp issue, it is a great board, and good for overclockers. Abit says this is their way of measuring temp. It reports 8-10c higher than other board.

If you are tight on budget, you might also consider IS7-E. This is without the FireWire and SATA Raid.

Thanks.

SkaGoatMaster · Jul 14, 2003

Thanks alot, I need the firewire...

R.Rabbit · Jul 14, 2003

probly the biggest problem people have been reporting over at abit forums was the built in sound card going crazy and the mike not working but that could've been fixed already im not sure
good luck

Rashio_UK · Jul 14, 2003

lol, does the is7 have a built in sound car?

OnDborder · Jul 14, 2003

I have a problem with the vcore, ddr voltage reading differently than what I set them at.
vcore set at 1.5250 reads 1.47..
ddr set at 2.7 reads 2.62.
N/B and hs fan speed monitor in the bios jumps all over the place.

Granted I'm new to Intel but I don't think this is natural...

Amino · Jul 15, 2003

It's natural.

OverclockNStein · Aug 4, 2003

"Granted I'm new to Intel but I don't think this is natural..."

It's called "undervolting". I learned this when I got my TH7-II

ICU · Aug 8, 2003

Does the temp problem affect the ABIT IS7-E or is it just the other boards?

JKeefe · Aug 9, 2003

The temp problem affects most Abit boards. No big deal - if it's stable then your temp is fine.

ICU · Aug 9, 2003

JKeefe said:
The temp problem affects most Abit boards. No big deal - if it's stable then your temp is fine.

Was'nt worried mate, I was just interested.

skou · Aug 12, 2003

I'll agree on the temp reporting, and voltage reporting being funny on Abit boards. I've set up at least ten of them, TH711s, IT7s, and NF7s, and all of the voltages aren't being reported the as set. But, they're still the best O/Cing boards I've seen.

steve

Kunaak · Aug 19, 2003

can't run the ram higher then 255 when overclocking.
have to oc to 254 or so, then use SetFSB if you want high 1:1, but this doesn't work well with the 2.4c cause setfsb doesn't go very high

eagles20015 · Aug 20, 2003

I wanna get the is7-e but I dont know what a firewire is so could someone tell me what it is?

And how is the sound card on it? Is it near as good as the audigy 2?

-=AgV=- · Aug 20, 2003

The onboard sound is actually quite good, better sound than my SB Live 1024, but you can not compare it to the Audigy 2...

Firewire is used by many Digital Video Cameras (to transfer the video to your PC)

pmontone · Aug 21, 2003

I have an IS7 and am currently having problems with it, it seems that the board has known issues with OCZ gold pc3700, and I'm having a hard time just trying to OC th FSB to 233 and run stable in windows.

kernelPANIC · Aug 22, 2003

if i were you i wouldn't buy an IS7, IC7, IS7-G or a IC7-G right now.

have a look at this post on ABIT USA's forum:

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12382

and yes, I have a IS7 and the sound right now is screwed.

Anyone hearing any bad things about the Abit IS7?

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