Got Me a KD7 Today!!

Hi all, first post here with a question about the KD-7

I am getting one soon (hopefully this week) and since i read that the southbridge runs pretty hot, i want to put a cheap heatsink on it, but i dont know how big the southbridge is.

i can get a 19,8 x 12,6 x 8 mm, 28 x 28 x 8 mm or a 38 x 38 x 10 mm heatsink.

should i just get the biggest one or is there a chance it wont fit?

Attachment is with double sided sticky thermal tape...

once again i dont know southbridge size so assistance would be appreciated if anyone knows how big it is :)

also, Dark Angel, I have read that the Radeon 9700 doesnt like high FSB speeds, maybe thats the problem, can you try with a different videocard?

Trying it with a different video card, in my opinion, is not acceptable. The Radeon 9700 is the fastest out there, there is no reason why anyone should have to "settle" for a slower card just to use this motherboard.

Tomcat84


I did not remove the HS to measure, but the HS I used is 1 inch by almost 1 and 1/4 inches...anything close to that will work..there are some caps on one side, just slide the HS down a little if too big. I don't know how many had this problem and put a HS on SB, but it's working very well for me.:D

thanks, ill go for the 28mm x 28mm x 8mm then

since thats 1.12 inches by 1.12 inches

btw, does putting on a heatsink and applying AS 3 on the northbridge void my warranty?

Probably only if they see it if its RMAed eh?

heatsink they cant see, arctic silver i guess i'd have to clean off well hehe.

Oh lets just hope no RMA will be needed :)

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Originally posted by emtp563
Trying it with a different video card, in my opinion, is not acceptable. The Radeon 9700 is the fastest out there, there is no reason why anyone should have to "settle" for a slower card just to use this motherboard.

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No one has to "settle for another card" to use this board, the board runs fine with this card at normal spec, if you are going to run it way beyond specs as we do...then it's up to you to make it work. I used my G4 Ti4600 instead of getting a new 9700 because of this problem, works fine.

I finally have my KD7 up and running. But when I installed the RADEON I immediately started having problems.

Nothing is yet overclocked.

When I installed the RADEON and the drivers it rebooted and I had a garbled display and an error message about the display driver.

I tried to reboot again but every time the system would just start to load WIN ME and then reboot itself.

I'm back to my Ti 4400 for the moment. any ideas?

btw, KD7 is version 1.1, RADEON is version 1.0.

Is there a way to adjust the AGP voltage on this mobo?

Len,

Did you flash to the latest bios ? Many have said the bios the board ships with is useless.

i am considering getting a kd-7 sometime soon or any other kt400 board. would it be safe to say that the kd7 is the best kt400 board out there right now? it seems to me that it is rather buggy

and what is some good pc3200 ram out there now for descent prices, 512mb of course. other than samsung, i am not very impressed with the 2 sticks i have had. one of them died and the other is working alright now, just nothing too impressive

In my opinion the KD7 is the best KT400 mobo out there. Although I certainly wouldn't even bother upgrading to a KT400 from any KT333 solution, the KD7 would be the choice for sure if I were upgrading from an older chipset to the KT400.

i am curently runnin a kt266a board...with no 1/5 pci divider. plus the 8x agp is lookin nice for future upgrades

it's a pitty that it doesn't have any S-ATA connectors... :(