> >
> > it is possible that this particular thing will work stable with you type
> > of load. but in general avoid VIA based products as much as possible.
>
> Why is that? My MSI KT7 Turbo2 VIA KT133A (VT8363A/VT82C686B) is running
> well under 1.5.3_ALPHA. I haven't got around to getting the AC97 Audio
> working but shouldn't be a problem as it was working under Linux.

possibly but i'm not sure how it will work on many concurrent PCI
accesses. VIA always have troubles with this - it has lots of design
flaws.