Post your VIA testimonials here

[CleanSlate]

My first custom rig had a VIA motherboard, it was an AMD thunderbird cpu (900mhz) with 256 megs of ram, a 10 gig HD, a GF2 GTS and a soundblaster sound card.

I had alot of problems with IRQ sharing that caused random crashes on that system and I dont think I ever got it running correctly. Since then I've steered clear of VIA chipsets.

Post your experiences with VIA here.

~Adam

 

[LunchboX3904]

I have an Asus A8V-Deluxe with the K8T800 Pro chipset and it's worked wonders for me. I'm currently running at 2.34 on a A64 3000+ so that means a 260mghz FSB......on stock voltage and stock cooling....and I haven't reached the max speed yet. So i'm VERY happy with it. It's been rock solid from the day I bought it and booted up perfect the first time I put it in so it was a breeze to work with.

 

[Davermonk]

For the next couple of days, I'm still running my Asus A7V-266E w/ via. The only problem I've had has been some "stuttering" sound that causes a slight system hang-up (I'm using the on-board sound). I was told by several people that it is a VIA problem so I purposely avoided VIA chipsets on my new build.

 

[UltimaParadox]

Overall in my experiences with via chipsets it is just not worth it IMO, they use to be a huge headache, and as known IRQ issues were rampant.

That being said, I havent used via chipsets in a while, and might be doing them an unfair service by calling them crap when it has been over 5 years

 

[CleanSlate]

Glad to see people are taking an interest and replying

~Adam

 

[flynlr]

simple I have the following Via CS still running.
VT82C595 Apollo VP2 Chipset running a K6-233 never a problem PA2007 FIC MB
KM266 running a XP1600 never a problem ASrock MB
K8T800 Pro chipset running my main system now on a A8V deluxe.
maybe a lucky person but in all my years of running via chipsets never a problem/

edit it seems I may have skipped the buggy VIA chipsets lol

 

[CleanSlate]

My buggy one was the KT333, which unlike its name didnt do 333 ram FSB, only 333 CPU fsb which was like a terrible gimmick to sell the board in the first place!

~Adam