Author Topic: SiS 735 chipset (Read 666 times)

weazel · « **on:** October 23, 2001, 10:25:00 PM »

Anyone here running this chipset yet?

After reading Toms Hardware, Anandtech, and some other sites I'm ordering a SiS 735 mobo and 1GHZ T-Bird this week and am curious if anyone is using it?

Makarov1 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2001, 03:27:00 PM »

Hey Weazel

I just picked up a ECS K7S5A ( http://www.ecs.com.tw ) motherboard for pretty cheap. It has the SiS 735 chipset on it. Install was a breeze and no problems so far. I'm getting about a 10 FPS faster framerate over my Abit KT7 board. Very pleased so far. I also read very positive comments ( http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010924/sis735-04.html ) on the Sis 735 so I decided to give it a shot. In fact if you live near a Fry's Electronics they have the K7S5A/900mhz Tbird combo for $89. I couldn't pass up that deal.

Let me know if you have any other questions about the chipset or board.

jihad · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2001, 03:44:00 PM »

I've done a lot of reading about the ECS board and ordered a 1 GHZ TBird/ECS K7S5A combo from Pricewatch this morning.

All the benchmark articles I read showed it to be a pretty good mobo, I just wanted to hear it from someone who plays AH.

Features I really like are that it has support for the 333mhz FSB when AMD makes the leap to it and also it has the largest memory bandwidth <2.1 GB per second> of any current chipset for AMD processors.

I just hope SiS doesn't repeat their past mistakes in regards to lousy customer and driver support.

Makarov1 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2001, 04:15:00 PM »

jihad,

Here's a good site with a bunch of information and a very active forum on the ECS K7S5A. I was having problems overclocking then I read ECS released a beta bios to allow overclocking. http://forum.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=4

-lynx- · « **Reply #4 on:** October 25, 2001, 11:05:00 AM »

Looks like a sweet board

aztec · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2001, 03:46:00 AM »

I just built a system based on the K7S5A. In my bios it shows me running at 133FSB, yet it shows me at 1400mhz. I thought this was supposed to be 266FSB. SiSoftSandra,(a system utility), gives me a warning stating: FSB exceeds chipset rated speed, reduce FSB. OK, I'm confused!

Anyone know what might be going on with this?

system is;
above mentioned mobo
1.4 gig T Bird
512 megs Crucial DDR ram
STB TNT 16 Meg Vid (had to return my new GeForce2 Ultra, was defective)
SB Live

[ 10-26-2001: Message edited by: aztec ]

vatiAH · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2001, 06:55:00 AM »

Aztec .. you are running at 266 . The Motherboard runs at 133 FSB but your Processor runs at double your MB's FSB. So 133 x 2 = 266 on the chip.

aztec · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2001, 08:01:00 AM »

Thx Vati, noticed that after looking more carefully at Sisoft Sandra. Still not sure whats up with the warning message I'm getting about FSB being to high.
Thx again Vati