First post, by jasa1063
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I recently put together 3 different Socket 7 systems with 3 different motherboards:
SIS 530 - PC Chips M599LMR
Ali Aladdin V - MSI MS-5169
VIA Apollo MVP3 - Shuttle HOT-597
The MSI and Shuttle boards are both solid and running well. The PC Chips board performance leaves a lot to be desired. My Voodoo 3 2000 PCI runs about 30%-50% slower in the PC Chips board than in the other 2 systems. I put the PC Chips board aside for now. I will only use it as a backup. Stay away from any SIS 530 based boards unless performance is not really an issue. Until I compared the systems, I was shocked at how much slower the SIS 530 based board really was.