Asus A7V-333

[mrfatuk]

Hi peeps,
Will be getting delievery of my Asus A7V-333 viaKT333 tomorrow and was wondering if they are any speical tweaks any1 has come up with,also a strip of 256Mb PC2700 (PC333) DDR is with it.So am looking forward to some clocking.
ant pro's and con's much apprieciated

 

[Acko]

Hey good luck with that board I`d love to get one but this time round I will wait & see how others (like you ) find it. Guess you are a sort of guinnea pig (No offense) I`ve been one.

Acko

 

[Oni]

I mean no offence, but you shoulda waited till the KT333b was released.

 

[mrfatuk]

Why And When

Or maybe it will be another excuse to buy a board and then compare the two......

 

[Acko]

Because it`s "Via" & as soon as they decide to improve there previous chip. I told you we are the Guinnea Pigs, we do the testing they improve the chip.

Acko

 

[Yodums]

Yea, I would have waited for revisions. Didn't you notice these:

Via KT133
Via KT133a
Via KT266
Via KT266a
Via KT333

The regular numbers were like betas, they were buggy, they weren't the best, and then the a's were the final revision which rocked...

 

[mrfatuk]

y wait

well,whats the point,no 1 would buy nothing if every 1 waited for the next thing.

This topic is going no where....
So the End

 

[Acko]

Hi peeps,
Will be getting delievery of my Asus A7V-333 viaKT333 tomorrow and was wondering if they are any speical tweaks any1 has come up with,also a strip of 256Mb PC2700 (PC333) DDR is with it.So am looking forward to some clocking.
ant pro's and con's much apprieciated



I refer to your original post about the pro`s & con`s of the above mobo all we have said is that Via are a bit suspect in releasing there chips. If you were to read other post in this & other forums you would have known about Via, it is a joke for all concerned but of course we do take our chances when buying a new mobo but who ever buys first relates back to such forums on how there mobo performs. Hence the remarks about Via please don`t get upset because you have gone out & bought a board which might be just fine it is just some of our opinions!!

Acko

 

[mrfatuk]

Who' upset

Well im sorry if u feel that u may have all upset me,

I should have prased my question better....I use this forums as i like the people i chat to and also i thought that u lucky people in the states get goodies(like this board) before we Limeys do in the UK....So i was after info on the Board(pro's n Cons) not weather a new chip is going to be released....

Any How,,Many thanks for all u'r imput..

 

[Yodums]

The boards are fairly new, not everyone will have it. Epox being the number one AMD Overclocker Motherboard manufacturer, has released a KT333 board, and I only see a few getting it so far, so shows you how new it is, and you shouldn't be surprised that not everyone has it..

The point I was coming across is that, a better board could be released soon, and you'd just throw away money if you went on with it anyways.

 

[abb1]

Re: Who' upset

Well im sorry if u feel that u may have all upset me,

I should have prased my question better....I use this forums as i like the people i chat to and also i thought that u lucky people in the states get goodies(like this board) before we Limeys do in the UK....So i was after info on the Board(pro's n Cons) not weather a new chip is going to be released....

Any How,,Many thanks for all u'r imput..

Actually those boards are available in England way before the States and Canada. Once they come in to our Country we will ask you how it is. I am still waiting for it to come out in stores here. Right now it is not available in Canada.
Abb

 

[Hoot]

I mean no offence, but you shoulda waited till the KT333b was released.

I've been reading a lot about the KT333 chipset and according to VIA, the next step, due out this summer, is the KT400, not the KT333a or b.

Hoot

 

[Oni]

I've been reading a lot about the KT333 chipset and according to VIA, the next step, due out this summer, is the KT400, not the KT333a or b.

Hoot

Yeah, I know that now. I didn't know it when I originally replied to this thread. Even so, I'm not going to be jumping on the KT400 Bandwagon anytime soon. I mean, RAM that supports KT333 is just comming out now, and I imagine that people will have the same wait for RAM that'll fully support KT400

 

[Hoot]

Well, pray for my mental health. I will be returning from Chicago Friday evening with a A7V333 and a stick of 512MB Corsair CAS2 memory. Judging from the problems reported in the ASUS forum at AMDMB.com, I pray I am among the silent majority, who have no problems with it.

Before I do a fresh install of WinXP Pro, I will try simply changing the motherboard out and keeping the original install. If it goes crazy, I'll do a fresh install. I'm lazy that way. I just hate to have to re-install everything again. If I have to, I just might go back to Win2k. XP carries a lot of overhead. Depends upon the mood I'm in.

Rest assured, I'll post a synopsis of the experience and perhaps write it up for the front page.

Hoot

 

[mrfatuk]

HI Mate,
Thanks.....I have had a few probs myself,wont boot up now,ans all i done was updated bios,keeps shouting cpu overheat at me..

 

[abb1]

I am getting worried! My A7V333 is due to come in either tomorrow or tuesday and all I have heard from this board are negative comments. Especially about it not booting up. If there is anybody out there, ANYBODY, that has good experiences with this board- please let yourselves be heard, so that I can have some piece of mind.
Abb

 

[MV99]

Just got my A7V333 2 days ago

I just fininsh set up for my A7V333 yesterday. A7V266E was the old board; I damaged the PCB while taking out my Thermalright AX7.... This is a great cooler but quite hard to uninstall.

I actually bought Epox 8K3A, too. Decided to put ASUS first because I modified my coolermaster ATC-210 with 4 fan holes on the side panel and the CPU socket location on A7V333 is the same as A7V266E. This way, CPU fan hole will be at correct spot for A7V333.

The board performed better than my old 266E. With everythings remain the same except mobo, I reached 1824Mhz (1900XP) and finish 3Dmark 2001SE with 9000 vs A7266E highest was 8902 with 1800 Mhz.

The board seems to be running stable while I kept overclocking it. The only 2 issues I have now are ---> 1). the board supposed to ba able to go unlimited on CPU core voltage. But I couldnt make the option running even I follow the manual to set the jumper. It only show the top at 1.85 as my option in BIOS. 2). I was using Nayan chip based (7 ns) RAM and it is PC2100. I bought Kingmax's PC2700 and found it difficult to work with A7V333. I dont know the reason and am quite dispointed because I bought this for do more aggressive overclocking. When I set CPU/RAM frequency ratio at 4:5 (it supposed to make CPU at 266 and memory at 333), it wont boot into Window 2000 at all...hmmm. Hope someone will be able t help. I was hoping to use Kingmax PC2700 to take advatage of KT333 chipset.



coolermaster ATC210 with 8 fans (modified)
1900XP (1824Mhz; 12.5x145)
nanya based 512 MB
2 IBM 60 G HDs
Planing to install rehobus today to control the CPU fan (too loud!!!...)
and also install digDoc5
idle @ 39C
fullloaded @ 40C
room temp is 27C

MV99

 

[abb1]

MV99, what you have to do to limitless the Vcore voltage is adjust the jumper. there is a jumper that is not in the manual, nor in any books. It is located somewhere in the middle of the top portion of the board and it is labelled "Overvoltage". Adjust that and you will get your Vcore higher than 1.85v.

 

[MV99]

Thank you very much for your advice. I will look for that jumper after some sleep. Read your message right after I installed both PCMods's rheobus and digiDoc5. It actually look quite nice and I am happy.... I think my wife will be OK with my CPU fan noise from now on.

It is 2:30AM here and I am too sleepy to move the computer. Will let you know if it work tomorrow.

Thanks again!

MV99

 

[Hoot]

Well, I must be living right.

I pulled out my trusty KK266+ and put the A7V333 into my tower, along with the 1x512Mb Corsair PC2700 stick of memory. I set all the jumpers to my "best guess" settings (man there are a lot of them) and powered it up. The voice messages are totally incomprenensible through the little "squeaker speaker" built into the case.

Much to my surprise Windows XP Pro Corporate fired right up, went through some self-adjusting for the new hardware and works great. I'm so happy I don't have to reinstall everything. There does not appear to be any artifacts from the old hardware. Gotta love Win XP!

This motherboard is a screamer. Just to be safe, I initially started up with the default (ultra-conservative) memory settings and 10x133 on the CPU. I then slowly worked everything up to the most aggressive memory timings across the board and a FSB or 170 Mhz. This yielded Sandra memory bandwidth results in the 2500/2400 range. Wow! At FSB settings above 170 Mhz, Prime95 Torture ran fine, but 3DMK2K1 started crashing. That was all last night and I have a lot more "massaging" to do the next few days.

In typical ASUS fashion, the new thermal diode monitoring circuitry is not as responsive as using one of my SMBus thermal diode monitoring modules and appears to read about 5C high. For the moment, I can live with that, but I will be looking at getting that feature optimized, or defeated so I can use one of my modules.

Aside from that minor detail, I am very pleased with this, my first ASUS motherboard. I don't believe I could have asked for a more enjoyable transition from my old motherboard.

Hoot