Anybody have one of those new mobos based on the Sis735 chipset?

yopas · Post by **yopas** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 7:34 am

I've read the reviews, and all, and it seems pretty good.
Anybody have first hand experience. The only board I know of that's using the chipset is the ECS:K7S5A

Any thoughts?

thnks

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 9:05 am

I ordered the ECS one...it should be here shortly.

Greg

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 2:34 pm

its here. Im using it. it seems ok. Bios ant great No OCing options at all Presently but Ill be working on that. http://www.geocities.com/robrich999hm/files.html new bios found there but I odnt know which flash program to use. I liek the board it seems Just fine espically for a $70 shipped board.

Greg

yopas · Post by **yopas** » Mon Sep 03, 2001 6:58 pm

yeah, I went ahead and ordered one from axion tech. it was $63 plus shipping, so i suppose it's gonna be about the same as you got yours. thanks for the input...

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Wed Sep 05, 2001 9:36 am

Careful flashing the bios on that thing... greg told me yesterday he fried the bios cause the flashing proggy sucks.

yopas · Post by **yopas** » Wed Sep 05, 2001 10:04 am

yeah,

I've heard some horror stories about them coming with jumpers in the wrong places, and all kinds of weirdness... i guess that's what you get when you buy something when it's "bleeding-edge" (I use that term extreamly loosely!) Anyway, thanks for the update...

Mike

bitSLAP · Post by **bitSLAP** » Wed Sep 05, 2001 10:08 am

I've put three of these in machines now and flashed every one of them without problems. You should be using this version of amiflash...

http://205.158.63.158/bios/aminf326.exe

The latest bios fixed some hardware conflict issues for me and added the new FSB/PCI speeds. It's also supposed to improve performance but I have yet to notice any difference.

yopas · Post by **yopas** » Thu Sep 06, 2001 10:14 pm

I got my board today (along with a 1gig duron) i'm posting from it right now... my sandra benchmarks went thru the roof. (i was on a k6-III 450)

so far so good!