🚀 go-pugleaf

The motherboard was (still is until I upgrade) a FIC VA 503+ which has a VIA
Apollo MVP3 chipset. As an example, I wanted about a year later to get the
Guillemot Isis card but after researching a bit more, found that the
particular card at the time was having incompatibilty problems with the MVP3
chipset. Not wanting to have to upgrade all over again so soon, I still have
the FIC motherboard (which otherwise I've been very happy with) and still an
old 4 track and hardware sequencer for my music. I also had problems with
later AGP video cards with the chipset (ie. TNT M64) which I eventually
solved by changing some bios settings, but probably reduced the full
potential of the card in the process. Just didn't want to get caught out
again with incompatibility issues therefore I guess I'll have to go with
industry standard Intel and a Pentium III and 815E chipset. There's also
much better sound card recording setups available now for my price range, so
I suppose it may have been worth the wait (eg. Hoontech C-Port. Hmmmm!!!
:-).

Matt

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3ac52b8d@news.iprimus.com.au...

> > my last upgrade was with a K62 300 and a FIC motherboard
> > with VIA chipset. I found that with certain professional sound
> > cards and direct disk recording that the chipset was incompatible.
>
> Which particular motherboard and what were the symptoms ?

> Yeah, its always a risk when you are doing something most dont do.
>
> > Trust me, I would love one off the Athlon processors!
>
> Dunno, they are also a bit twitchy on power supply and temp too.
>
> Sure, better value, but still significantly more risk involved.
>
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