[Wa11y]

I'm looking for a slot 1 motherboard for an P3 500 I have. I know the slot 1s are getting rare. But I need to know what's a good board/chipset. As far as I know, the processor will only do 100MHz FSB, but I'm using Crucial PC133 SDRAM. So I wouldn't mind doing some overclocking. But thus far, all my overclocking knowledge is with AMDs. Since they're cheaper.

I currently have my PIII 500 running on a piece of crap Intel board from an old HP computer. It has a Matrox G200 on-board, and no AGP slots, so I can't throw my spare GeForce 2 MX400 in there. Basically, it's crap, and I want better. On-board sound would be a plus, since I don't wanna get a new sound card for it.

One caveat: I'm running Mandrake Linux 8.0 on this box. So it's got to be a board/chipset/on-board sound that Linux supports. But I doubt that'll be a problem.

[SkyHook]

As I said this is only my opinion, actually more my observation, but I have not experienced any problems with my Abit BE6-II. I've run PIII-450s which were Slot 1s as well as various Celeron and CeleronIIs up to and including a CeleronII-700 Engineering Sample all of which were used with an Abit Slotket III. The 700 was run at 1050@1.75V for close to a year with no complaints, with 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP Pro, and a couple versions of Mandrake.

I realize it doesn't fill your requirement of onboard sound, but for next to nothing you can get a PCI soundcard that is far better than the onboard sound you will find on any Slot 1 motherboard, since onboard sound is only now starting to come up to the level of moderately priced soundcards.

Hope it gives you something to think about.

[Wa11y]

Thanks for that. I'm actually bidding on an Asus P3V4X on ebay right now. I tried looking for an IWill VD133, Asus P3BF, and ABit BH6, but none were to be found. Such is the drawback to looking for older technology such as Slot 1 mobos.

The P3V4X doesn't have on-board sound either. I'll just get a cheap Soundcard. I just wanted on-board for the convenience. But such is the way of things, neh?

[tainice]

someone is selling BE6 here, check it out, and it is only 40+shipping

[batboy]

Wally, William has or at least had an Abit BE6 for sale in the classifieds.

[PipeBom]

Yeah, I'd go for the ABit BE6 or BE6-II. I havent had any actual experience with the board, but I'm trying to get one myself. Heard nothing else but its a great board-especially for o/cing. I'm in the process of getting one. That will take about a week or so. If I got it sooner I would tell you that it's an excellent board ( hopefully ).

[JaY_III]

And once again the BX board lives on