i am going for a PIII750E and not an 850E, how far?

[Threat]

Well, i posted here for about 4 days ago, and i have been thinking ant thinking, and i have come to the conclusion that it is better to by an 750E, both an economic point of view and an o/c pov, so how far will this chip get?, the average on the cpu database is 950 and almost everyone of them ar cB0 stepped. how far will it go? 1ghz / 950 / 900 ??

[Phil]

if you are very lucky and have good cooling you might get a 133mhz fsb for 1ghz, you may need up to 1.9v for this but don't go over as you may kill the chip, other than that it depends what fsb settings your motherboard has, the 700E is a better overclocking chip as they pretty much all reach 933mhz with the option to go higher, some over 1ghz, good luck in getting 1ghz+

[Threat]

One more quiestion though:
which mobo should i get:
ABIT BX133-RIAD
or the
ASUS CUSL2-C
? this is a bigg problem for me, cos half of my friends say BX133-RAID and the other half says CUSL2-C =).
I have an Pixel View GeForce 2MX, i have heard that ABIT supports 133fsb with the BX133-RAID if you have a GeForce2MX or better card, or something like that.

[Phil]

with the bx chip it can only run at 133mhz with an agp bus of 89mhz, this is 33% over spec, what your friends mean about it supporting it with a geforce card is that almost every nvidia card cn take this high agp bus speed, I had a tnt2 ultra that would run on a 133mhz agp bus (1/1 divider not ddr 66mhz bus)
the cusc2-c is a good overclocking board, but the bx chip is faster than the 815* chips, but the 815 can run at a 133mz fsb with the agp bus in spec, though unlikely the mx wouldn't run on an 89mhz agp bus it is possible, thoug if it did it would have a slight speed boost (not much though as the agp bus is limited by memory speed) the abit board also has raid support, which is useful for improving the speed of the disk subsystem, but needs 2 disks to work and doesn't really offer as much performance as you might think, if I were you I would think about whether you are confident in your vid card running on an 89mhz agp bus, whether you want raid, and also which is cheapest, I personelly would go for the bx-133 as my only reservation would be the 89mhz agp which is unlikely to be a problem, worst case is you need to turn side band adressing off on the vid card which isn't that bad

[logos]

I have played with different chipsets and I would definately recommend a bx440 chipset. the bx is tried and true stable but the agp divider could be an issue.

However, I might also recommend looking at the be-6 r2 because you can get a slocket which gives you more voltage options for pushing the chip to the limit.

[logos]

also, the soft menu 3 is way easier to use...

[Threat]

I think I´ll go for the Asus CUSL2-C anyway, the BX feels a litle bit old...