Are all KyroII's created equal?

[techblast]

I want to buy a KyroII for my AMD 1600xp / ECS K7S5A mainboard with Crucial 2100 DDR (non parity/unbuffered) 256Meg. I see that there are the following companies producing this type of board:

1. Hercules - Guillemot

2. Apollo

3. Inno-3d

Anyone buy the real cheapie from Inno-3d for 64 bucks? Is there less driver support from the Inno/Apollo company then from Hercules Guillemot?

Suggestions?

 

[techblast]

I can partly answer my own question. Just checked out Hercules and found they are up to date on drivers. Inno-3d does not have drivers for WinXP. I will be installing XP as part of my upgrading. I guess you get what you pay for. Perhaps Hercules drivers work with the Inno-3d. They both should be spec boards.

 

[Rand]

I'd just stick with the reference drivers anyway, they will be the most up to date.

I've only used only K2 board, and that was the Hercules board, I'm inclined to say their NOT all created equal in at least 2D visual quality as everything I've heard seems to agree that the Inno board at least has better 2D then the Hercules board. But again, I've only used the hercules board so i can't confirm that.
Performance of course should be near identical between them.

 

[vedin]

Dude, or girl, dunno...you have GOT to post some benches when you get that computer finished. I have that mobo, and was wondering what a Kyro II could do with the world's fastest CPU in it. And the baord manuf shouldn't matter too much. The speed will be the same, like Rand said, the 2d might be slightly different, but not too dif. The only deal is using refference XP drivers instead.