Gigabyte GA-7VRX Review

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Gigabyte GA-7VRX
3.2 stars
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sted.'s Review of Gigabyte GA-7VRX Motherboard

15th Nov 2002

Overall Rating

2.5 stars
  • Value for money
    1.5 stars
  • Quality
    2 stars
Good Points

dual bios


Bad Points

agp problems


General Comments

I had an athlon 1800 xp with 512mb ddr ram, 60 gig hard drive and sb live 5.1 sound card on this main board. I decided to upgrade my graphic card from a voodoo 3 3000 pci to an nvidia ge force 2 mmx agp card. I installed the card and drivers and the system kept locking up in 3d applications. I reinstalled both card and drivers but still the same locking up. I bought another agp card, this time the nvidia ge force 2 titanium, this one worked well for a few minutes before locking up, I tried the usual re install but still no joy. I then tried the radeon 7500le, same result only with random shutdowns and lockups. By this time I was quite annoyed and decided to try changing the main board, I bought a nice cheap ecs k7s6a and wow, what a result, fantastic. I should of got shot of the ga7 vrx in the first place. the ecs k7s6a is fab, I've had no problems, lockups or game crashes yet and half the price too.

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Members' Comments onsted.'s Review

  • pp. on 8th Dec 2002

    Wow I didnt think people like this existed! Ga-7vrx definetly has a g force problem (Amended with some pretty ugly work!)But as for useing an ati with this board, I give a 9.4 thumbs up. I was useing a radeon 7200 but have opted up with the 9000 pro. As for the board itself, overclockers dream with the utilities to match! Extremely easy to set up, depenable, cost effective and upgradable! Need I say more, yes watch the revision numbers! 1.0 is a nightmare 1.1 (Thats what I got) not bad.

  • martinez. on 19th Dec 2002

    well... I have this MoBo and really it's just great! I have Triplex GF4 Ti4200 Millennium Silver overclocked to frequency of Ti4400 and NO PROBLEMS here!!... but I had this crashing problem, and believe me, it not the AGP. go to BIOS and check do you have TOP PERFORMANCE enabled or disabled, if enabled than disable it, and this will be the end of your problems people!!! on this option many of ram's doesn't work properly (I'm not sure exactly why), the cause maybe in settings of CAS Latency... believe me, this mainboard is in my personal opinion the best thing I could get! no agp problems on this end :)