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**Panama Red** · 05-28-2005, 02:44 PM

I may be wrong on this but I think the problem is ANY gaming on a Via chipset board of the type you're using. The A7V series of boards are fine for general purpose use. The problems seem to come when you stick in a top end graphics card and try to play the latest games. I've built several machines for office or general internet use based on the A7V8X-MX SE board and use the on board video. I've not had any problems with those machines. If you're going to game with an AMD processor, like your socket A, you're much better off using a mobo with the nForce2 chipset.

05-28-2005, 02:44 PM	#4
Panama Red Served with Pride Staff Premium Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: near the left coast of Michigan Posts: 14,565	I may be wrong on this but I think the problem is ANY gaming on a Via chipset board of the type you're using. The A7V series of boards are fine for general purpose use. The problems seem to come when you stick in a top end graphics card and try to play the latest games. I've built several machines for office or general internet use based on the A7V8X-MX SE board and use the on board video. I've not had any problems with those machines. If you're going to game with an AMD processor, like your socket A, you're much better off using a mobo with the nForce2 chipset.