Iwill KK266 or Epox 8K7A????

[Hookem]

Come on guy's which one is best for a newbie's first box...will be used for Photoshop, Director, Soundforge, After Affects, Premiere, going to be using a Gaindward GeForce2 TwinView Vivo Golden Sample video card for dual display and some video editing...Will be using it with a HP 8550 laser jet printer so I need LAN Ethernet instead of running it off the parallel port...want a dual processor system but am waiting prices to drop on mobo's and all the new chipsets to come out and for the smoke to clear..What I don't want is to be clipping, soldering, etc...etc... Need for it to be stable right out of the box and run these programs without locking up crashing etc...

 

[sifu quoc]

i just bought the iwill... but that was only because i had alot of extra sdram laying around...

if you are buying a complete new system... get ddr ram... its cheap now...

read up on the epox... i think there are some issues right now that need to be resolved...

if i were building another system... id get ddr ram... and prolly the epox...

 

[LesterP]

The 761 based boards will feel faster than 133A based. I went from a A7V133 to the 8K7A and it feels significantly quicker in day to day usage than the Asus (not that it was slow by any means). I would go with the Epox - a bit more future proof, and definitelty faster, and a bunch of fun to o'c with if you don't mind jumpers and dips.

 

[Hookem]

Why don't you guy's like the Asus board with DDR and SDRAM???

 

[Richard]

If you're going to get a new board. Go with DDR. There's no reason to have a SDR + DDR board. Why buy a DDR board and then put SDRAM in it, when DDR is a pittance in cost. Ya don't "NEED" 512 MB of RAM. A 256 MB stick of DDR costs $40. Come on. It's almost a crime not to buy it.

hookem (Aug 04, 2001 11:15 a.m.):
Why don't you guy's like the Asus board with DDR and SDRAM???