Ok. I have a fairly small list of requirements out of an MB, but I can't seem to find anything that matches.
I want IDE RAID (4 ide ports), 133/166 FSB support, good OC options, good performance.
I was looking mostly at the soyo kt400 dragon ultra and the gigabyte ga-7axp. With the gigabyte, I came across the fact that if it detects a 133 mhz fsb cpu, you can only adjust the clock from 133-165. For a 166, 166-200. That's not enough for me since I want to get a thoroughbred rev b. 2100+, and everyone seems to be able to OC theirs up to the 180+ mhz fsb range.
The dragon looks like a good board, but I've read on a few sites that it drags behind in the benchmarks and isn't really a performance board. Also, sites didn't list 166/333 FSB compatability... but you can adjust the FSB that high. Is manually putting the FSB at 166 mhz the same as having 166 mhz bus support as far as CPU compatability goes?
Anyway, any recommendations you guys could give me would be appreciated.
I want IDE RAID (4 ide ports), 133/166 FSB support, good OC options, good performance.
I was looking mostly at the soyo kt400 dragon ultra and the gigabyte ga-7axp. With the gigabyte, I came across the fact that if it detects a 133 mhz fsb cpu, you can only adjust the clock from 133-165. For a 166, 166-200. That's not enough for me since I want to get a thoroughbred rev b. 2100+, and everyone seems to be able to OC theirs up to the 180+ mhz fsb range.
The dragon looks like a good board, but I've read on a few sites that it drags behind in the benchmarks and isn't really a performance board. Also, sites didn't list 166/333 FSB compatability... but you can adjust the FSB that high. Is manually putting the FSB at 166 mhz the same as having 166 mhz bus support as far as CPU compatability goes?
Anyway, any recommendations you guys could give me would be appreciated.