Well im thinking of treating myself to a Rad 9700 pro / Rad 9800 and i was wodering if they still had problems with kt400 boards.
My Current system is
Athlon XP 2100+ (1.74ghz)
Gigabyte 7VAX (KT400)
512 DDR PC2700 Ram
GF4 Ti4200p Turbo 128MB
Windows 2000 Proffesional
350W Power Supply.
Should be able to cope with the cards but would the rad have probs with my kt400 as i heard about this before when they first came out?
Cheers,
Stylez


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7VAX are excellent mobos and KT400 are very decent ... apart from the incompatibilities with the early AGP8x cards that is. The issue was reportedly solved in the later revisions of the AGP8x cards and with later BIOS' and mobo drivers (if not gfx too) so you should be fine ... I managed to get a 9500PRO running in a 7VAX once the newest drivers and mobo BIOS were out ... with a fresh install too. The biggest problem is that Giga's otherwise excellent KT400 implimentation lacked the ability to switch to AGP4x which generally worked for every other KT400 out there ... and with no impact on perf. Without AGP4x switching the 7VAX had to run without AGP (0xAGP / disabled) ... still very little impact on perf so long as you didn't run out of gfx RAM.
So go ahead and get one, if needs be you can always send it back (distance buying) but that's VERY unlikely ... IMHO there's virtually no risk esp with the Rad9600PRO or Rad9800 based cards which should have addressed the issue even if the BIOS and drivers fail you. Go ahead!
, very much appreciated.
