Abit BE6

[Victor]

I am currently running a 550E @ 733 on this board. It has been very stable for nearly 6 months now. I would like to obtain 1gig, and I am thinking I should be able to do this with a 850/100 flip chip on the BE6. Any opinions on my chances would be appreciated.

 

[Tim-]

I have a BF6 with a PIII-700@1 GHz and it's a great machine. Keep in mind that the 700 will be faster at 1GHz than the 850 due to the higher FSB, and the 700 seems happier about going that fast in many cases.

 

[WinXP]

I would go with the P3 700E more than likely you will hit a gig. Just sold my 700E it would do [email protected] running on a BE-6-2 Raid mobo. Find a cco stepping an you should hit a gig with just a little voltage increase.

 

[Victor]

OK...Please forgive a novice, but this brings a couple of questions to my mind. Remember my BE6 rev.1 is not able to make small FSB adjustments like the BE6-ll is, and I don't know about the BF6, but why, if this MB I'm using now will run my 550E/100@ 133FSB, would it not be able to run a 850/100@ a FSB setting fast enough to obtain 1 GHZ, say @124 x 8.5 for 1054 MHZ? Is it that this particuliar chip simply is not likely to allow this much of a push, or is it something else? I understand that I may suffer some speed loss do to a lower FSB setting. My concern about pushing a 700 to this point is my AGP & PCI. I am trying to advoid having to replace other components in an attempt to obtain a higher FSB setting.

 

[Matt]

I have the same mobo and was wondering which bios version are you running?

Matt