ST6 or VH6T?

jazztrumpet216 · Jul 7, 2002

I'm looking at upgrading a system and I need some opinions, which board would be better? The ST6 and VH6T have both yielded excellent results, and I'm looking for some reasons for either. Also, should I try hunting down one of those ol' Gigabyte GA60XET's or isn't it worth it? I haven't seen one those in a long time. What do you guys think?

Bonka · Jul 7, 2002

Either of the 2 ABit board will do the job quite nicely. Obviously, if you were to ask my opinion, I'd tell you to get the ST6

I wouldn't even bother trying to find that rare Gigabyte board. Not worth the suffering when the ST6 is just as good, cheap, and available freely

TASOS · Jul 7, 2002

Yes...go for the ST6....it's an excellent board.

The VH6T is a very good board too....practically the same with ST6
but with a Via chipset...(keep in mind as a 2nd option).

I prefer the ST6 cause of the Intel chipset.....it performs better and perhaps more stable.

TASOS · Jul 7, 2002

.....and if you feel like beeing UNIQUE & FANCY....try to get the
"Casper" version

ol' man · Jul 8, 2002

TASOS said:
.....and if you feel like beeing UNIQUE & FANCY....try to get the
"Casper" version

The difference is the casper has on board graphics and you can only get it in Asia.

jazztrumpet216 · Jul 8, 2002

ol' man said:
The difference is the casper has on board graphics and you can only get it in Asia.

That would explain why I've had a hell of a time trying to find anything on this mobo besides a few pictures....

TASOS · Jul 8, 2002

ol' man said:
The difference is the casper has on board graphics and you can only get it in Asia.

Nope....no onboard graphics
...and it's available in many countries in Europe

{PMS}fishy · Jul 9, 2002

ST6, the Intel chipset is much better than the Via chipset found on the VH6t.

Zaynee · Jul 9, 2002

personally, I'd choose the ST6 board..

jazztrumpet216 · Jul 9, 2002

Alright, thanks for the opinions. I was leaning towards the ST6 myself but I've seen great OC's out of all of them and was wondering if the VH6T had any advantages over the ST6. I've always liked Intel's chipsets.

Bonka · Jul 10, 2002

jazztrumpet216 said:
Alright, thanks for the opinions. I was leaning towards the ST6 myself but I've seen great OC's out of all of them and was wondering if the VH6T had any advantages over the ST6. I've always liked Intel's chipsets.

Their pretty much equal in performance. If you want to stuff your motherboard to the gills with RAM, get the VH6T. Many say that you'll get higher memory benchies with the ST6, because of the Intel chipset, but I think that is pretty negligable unless you care about raw numbers.

ol' man · Jul 10, 2002

TASOS said:
Nope....no onboard graphics
...and it's available in many countries in Europe

I assumed it had onboard graphic cause it is a 815E-B not a 815Ep-B if that makes any sence

You cannot get that here in the US!

davefred99 · Jul 10, 2002

Bonka said:
Their pretty much equal in performance. If you want to stuff your motherboard to the gills with RAM, get the VH6T. Many say that you'll get higher memory benchies with the ST6, because of the Intel chipset, but I think that is pretty negligable unless you care about raw numbers.

In may case I found that the VH6t will give better memory scores in SisoftSandra anyway. @ 133fsb I get about 1020 on the vh6t and the st6 scores about 960 so from my testing the vh6t is slightly better in memory bandwith but the st6 is slightly more stable at max oc's though.

TASOS · Jul 13, 2002

davefred99 said:
In may case I found that the VH6t will give better memory scores in SisoftSandra anyway. @ 133fsb I get about 1020 on the vh6t and the st6 scores about 960 so from my testing the vh6t is slightly better in memory bandwith but the st6 is slightly more stable at max oc's though.

Well...its the chipset that boosts the mem performance
So i doubt that the Via chipset can outperform the Intel one.

davefred99 · Jul 13, 2002

TASOS said:
Well...its the chipset that boosts the mem performance
So i doubt that the Via chipset can outperform the Intel one.

Tasos
I would have thought that the intel 815 (st6) would outperform the via 694 (vh6t) also but my testing did not support that. I have both motherboards currently and have swapped memory and cpu,s between the two and the vh6t consistently outperforms the St6 in memory benchmarks according to Sisoft Sandra by more than 5%. I do not know af anyone else who has compared them as completely as I have. As I said originaly the st6 is slightly better for max oc stability but not memory bandwithl.

muddocktor · Jul 14, 2002

Another reason to perhaps go with the VH6T instead of the ST6 is that it has 1- ISA slot, if you are still using an ISA modem or something else that is ISA.

muddocktor

tainice · Jul 16, 2002

gotta disagree on this one, for BEST performace, avoid isa at all causes, although i was temped to purchase vh6t cuz i loved my sweet AWE64 too much..

anyway, i'd say go for st6, cuz i can oc to the same speed with far less pain, and stable as hell.

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