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A review by LimpBizkitUK on ASUS A7V333 - motherboard - ATX - KT333 July 20th, 2002
Author's product rating:
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Ease of Installation
Stability
Value For Money
Advantages:
Cheap, Reliable, AMD board
Disadvantages:
Socket A, so wont work with Intel cpu's
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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I bought my ASUS A7V333 for £85 online. It boasted many modern features, a good BIOS, and the ability to add loads of RAM.
The ASUS motherboard costs a little less than some other motherboards, mainly because it is a Socked A board. This means that the only processors it can take are AMD Socket A processors like the Athlon 1800 that I have in mine.
The board boasts the standard 5 PCI slots for all your Modem and network cards, and has the newest AGP X4 AGP slot, meaning new cards like the nVidia GeForce 4 cards can run to their full capacity.
One nice little touch on the A7V333, is that in addition to a top of the range AMD Athlon XP2200+, you could also have 3GB of PC2700 333MHZ RAM. Unfortunately since 256megs of that RAM costs about £60, i work that out to be between £500 and £600 for 3 Gigs. Ive also seen 4 fan power slots, though their may be more., I think that this is mainly due to the high running temperatures of the AMD processors, and the need for multiple fans on high end processors.
Anywhays, the A7V333 supports other usual features such as multiple CD/DVD/CDR drives, multiple Hard Disks, and Multiple Floppy's, and the board has ONBOARD SOUND. Yes that is correct, that for only £85 you can have a motherboard with onboard sound. The sounds is of respectable quality, and is perfectly adequate for playing windows sounds, MP3's or games.
What i also like about the A7V333, is that it comes with 6 standard USB 2.0 ports, meaning you can all your modern USB hardwares such as scanners, digicams and webcams attatched.
--INSTALLATION --
Installing the A7V333 first requires that you stick in your AMD chip. This was extremely easy, and the mounting bay for the chip has a lock, meaning it wont move around. Next is placing it into your case, or in my case, more having to jam it into my case, as the motherboard is BIG. I would not attempt to stick an A7V333 into your case if you have an old midi case like mine, as it will be the largest type of motherboard the case can take, and may rub against the CD rom or Hard Disk bays. Once the board was in however, everything was simple, screwing it to the case mounts, sticking in my graphics card, modem and networks card was easy, as was attaching the CD, Hard Disk and Floppy cables to their labeled slots on the motherboard - a superb feature. The Ipanel consisting of all the power and restart buttons and LEDS was also easily labelled.
Even if you dont know your way around the motherboard, it comes with an A7V333 Quick Start guide to help you install your motherboard, and a full booklet discussing all aspects of the motherboard, and troubleshooting.
Last but not least, is the BIOS which is faily standard and allows you to overclock, change start up options etc, and also has a hardware monitor that can tell you what your CPU temp and fan speed are, along with any motherboard fans and its temperature. Alternatively, you can view all of this in the ASUS probe program which is included on the CD in the box, and can tell me at this moment that my motherboard is at a warm 34*c or 93*F.
So then, that is it, a fairly in depth review of an Asus A7V333. I recommend that if you want a cost-effective computer, you get your nice new AMD processor, and this Motherboard.
Advantages: Good Athlon Performance at a cheap price Disadvantages: Lacking some features
The Asus A7V333 cost me £80 over the internet.
It is a Socket A board, and will take AMD Duron (600 Mhz +) and AMD Athlon XP (XP1500 and beyond). I run an XP 2000 in mine.
The board comes with driver software and a few utilities. These mainly consist of monitoring utilities (eg you can monitor temperature, fan speed voltage etc).
The board runs on the VIA KT333 chipset. It has 3 slots for DDR RAM. If you use PC2100 RAM, it can take a maximum 3GB. ... ...the package are a metallic Asus sticker for your case, a large sticker of the motherboard layout to attach to your case (very useful), a comprehensive manual, a quick start guide, floppy lead, IDE lead, backing plate.
The model here is the basic one - I think there is one available with RAID and LAN facilities, as well as Firewire.
Overall then, worth buying if you are looking for a decent Athlon XP board - but bear in mind the lack of integrated ...
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I have an Asus A7V333 motherboard and as far as i can tell, i have had no issues with it at all. there are plenty of features, almost too many. it has a few problems, as it still uses old connections, like the AGP 4x slot, which makes it very difficult to upgrade the graphics card now. it also doesnt have sata. other than that, the motherboard is brilliant. it has 5 pci slots which were useful as i had a lot of cards. The other upgrade issue with ... ...type, Socket A, which makes it difficult to upgrade the processor and to find a better fan. i am also happy with the fact that it is an ATX board, so it has lots of space for upgrades, if you can find them.
This motherboard is great value for money and is a budget-board. probably good as a starter motherboard. ...
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Advantages: stable, fast (for single DDR), great features, good price. Disadvantages: getting out of date, no dual channel DDR, no Barton support on older boards.
...my own undoing as the ASUS site specifically states that PCB v1.x only supports up to Thoroughbred 333Mhz, not Barton 333Mhz.
Bartons will run, but they run very hot and the ASUS Qfan runs flat out the whole time, so I eventually had to replace the CPU or board, so decide dot sell this board on and upgrade to the ASUS A7N8X-E-Deluxe.
BTW - I'd recommend trying to get your hands on a digital daughterboard if you have optical/coaxial SPDIF input ...
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Advantages: KT333 USB2 and DDR3 PC2700 Disadvantages: via VT333 chipset is currently Sept 2002 buggy poor Asus support
...& DDR3 to PC2700.
Asus historically offer great support, this board claims to talk (but it actually just plays .wav files at appropriate points) and is around £120.
There are many sources on how to choose a motherboard e.g. Tom's HArdware guide, so I'm not going into that.
This board has all the features you'll want to make a great PC... so will every motherbaord with a KT333 chipset.
And this is the problem. The KT333 chipset is so new that ... ...existence of any bugs.
Asus a victim of success now no longer respond to support quieries. Don't believe it, sure !
But, I hear you say, Asus also offer: Asus probe; QFan etc. All these add on don't work. Proof again is on the Asus forum.
Simply check the VIA forum, Asus support forum etc for this bug. The bug is confirmed as is no resolution as is poor Asus support etc.
Advice for Asus:
accept 'warm boot' bug reports and force VIA to resolve ...
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13.09.2002
A great all rounder. Review ofASUS A7V333 - motherboard - ATX - KT333by
lordjiggy
Advantages: stable board Disadvantages: agp 4x
I bought my A7V333 with an ipanel for the front of my pc as well and Im running an XP 2000 in it and its very stable with no problems.
Although this board uses the via chipset it doesnt seem to have all the bugs that my previous abit boards had and my Soundblaster Live works fine without a single crackle or skip regardless of what is going on.
The board can use jumpers or be set for jumperless mode and I have to say that in this day and age I really ... ...used at all and I was disappointed to have to jumper the onboard sound off and not be able to change this within the bios as it is a pain at the best of times taking the case of the pc but for someone who isnt sure it could pose some major problems.
All in all I am very impressed with this boards performance and would recomend it to anyone who is looking for a board for Overclocking or running at factory speed. ...
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BIOS Features: Power failure recovery (AC loss resume), DMI 2.0 support, WfM 2.0 support, ASUS MyLogo, JumperFree
Manual Settings: CPU frequency, processor core voltage, FSB ratio (CPU:PCI)
Hardware Monitoring: CPU core temperature, chassis temperature, power supply temperature, CPU fan tachometer, chassis fan tachometer, system voltage, CPU overheating protection, CPU core voltage, power supply fan tachometer
Sleep / Wake Up: Keyboard wake up, wake on modem (WOM), wake on LAN (WOL), wake on USB port
Hardware Features: ASUS POST Reporter, Chassis intrusion detection, ASUS POST Reporter, ASUS Q-Fan
Audio
Audio Output: Sound card - PCI
Signal Processor: VIA VT8233A, VIA VT8235
Sound Output Mode: 5.1 channel surround
Compliant Standards: AC '97
Manufacturer's product description
The A7V333 motherboard is designed and assembled according to the highest standards. This ASUS motherboard represents the latest advances and offers users the finest components available today. The A7V333 incorporates VIA KT333 chipset to support AMD socket A processors and high-bandwidth PC2700 DDR (Double Data Rate) memory. Loaded with additional features such as ATA133 RAID, USB 2.0 and 1394 ports, 6-channel hardware audio, as well as innovative ASUS thermal protection technologies, the A7V333 delivers optimum performance and value.
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