I was using the KT7-RAID too. I still remember the PCI latency bug which
decreased the useable PCI bandwidth from the usual ~120MB/s of a normal PCI
bus to about 80MB/s. If you have more than a few PCI cards like TV tuner
card, ATA/IDE card, NIC, they could easily saturate the PCI bus. I consider
that a bug in the chipset design which caused me to lose faith in VIA
chipsets.
Anyways, one other suggestion is to get a new drive for the boot drive.
Your old drive you're trying to save is probably pretty slow. Even if it's
a 7200rpm, it's still slower than the new ones, unless you're considering
striping them into a RAID-0 array. But then, for the new motherboards, only
the SATA channels are RAIDable, not the PATA channels. I suggest getting a
Raptor 36GB for your boot drive. Those have come down in price to about $70
after rebate, which makes them a pretty good deal. Also, then you can use
one of the SATA channels for your boot drive, and save the two IDE channels
for your ATAPI devices and your old PATA drives.
I hope you're not trying to re-use the old power supply too. Probably need
a solid power supply of at least 400W if stability is your primary concern.
"Jeff" <design.TakeThisOut@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:_v2dnYcghY5GmBjfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
> Via chipset, I'm not tied to it. I'm been using a KT7A (VIA VT8363A Apollo
> KT133A chipset) for the past 4 years without any serious problems.
> The features of the AV8-3rd eye looked like what I needed, but I'm still
> in the planning stages with this new system. One thing I would really like
> is to be able to continue to use my AGP video card and ATA HD's, just for
> the sake of economy.
> Any suggestions you or other readers might have would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> "Dave" <nospam_doc_nospam_inthebox.TakeThisOut@nospam_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:df4he.16412$J12.9829@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>> "Jeff" <design.TakeThisOut@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:RqWdnQdPz7cKMhnfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
>>>I thinking of building a system (current KV7A w/Thunderbird 1.33) that
>>>would allow me to use some of my existing components (AGP video card, ATA
>>>HD ....) so I'm thinking about this combo:
>>>
>>> AV8-3rd eye MB
>>> AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 1MB Rev E San Diego
>>> Gigabyte G-Power Pro HSF
>>> 2 - 512 sticks of DDR (400) 3200 - OCZ Gold (OCZ4001024ELDCGE-K)
>>>
>>> I'm not planning on overclocking
>>> I'm going to be using this system for Photoshop CE, DreamWeaver MX, and
>>> Premiere 6.5.
>>>
>>> Is this configuration stable enough to run these applications all day
>>> without crashing?
>>> Any suggestions on how I might improve this configuration?
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>
>> Is there any reason you want to go with a VIA chipset? IMHO (and
>> experience), stability and VIA chipset just don't go well together.
>>
>
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