Asus P3V4X Ouestion

[Joe G.]

Im thinking of purchasing a Asus P3V4X, when i look at the specs on the board it says it has (Auto Detect and regulate CPU voltage from being overcurrent) Does this feature still allow me to select my voltage manually? THANKS

 

[Daniel ~]

Yes.

 

[lifeguard1999]

I own an Asus P3V4X board, and I would recommend against getting it. My reasoning is simple. To get the most performance out of the board, you need to do a good amount of tweaking.

That being said, there are two types of P3V4X boards. One with the older ICS clock generator chip, and one with the newer Winbond chip. The ICS chip has 32 FSB speeds, but tends to overheat at higher speeds. Thus you might not get up to 150, 160, 166 MHz on the FSB. The Winbond has just 16 speeds and tops out at 150 FSB.

Again, I own an Asus P3V4X board with an ICS chip. It is stable. I like it. But if I had a choice, I would go with an Intel 815E board. Of course, when I built my system, the 815E was not available.

 

[dadx2mj]

I have the newer version and have had no problems Yes you can control the voltage I think this is a great board and recomend it highly

 

[OddOne]

lifeguard1999 (Dec 18, 2000 09:40 a.m.):
I own an Asus P3V4X board, and I would recommend against getting it. My reasoning is simple. To get the most performance out of the board, you need to do a good amount of tweaking.

That being said, there are two types of P3V4X boards. One with the older ICS clock generator chip, and one with the newer Winbond chip. The ICS chip has 32 FSB speeds, but tends to overheat at higher speeds. Thus you might not get up to 150, 160, 166 MHz on the FSB. The Winbond has just 16 speeds and tops out at 150 FSB.

Again, I own an Asus P3V4X board with an ICS chip. It is stable. I like it. But if I had a choice, I would go with an Intel 815E board. Of course, when I built my system, the 815E was not available.

I concur with Lifeguard. The P3V4X is an excellent board, but it is not suited to anyone without a pretty exhaustive amount of computing experience. It's a VERY tweakable board, and you get back what you put in. But for a newbie, for instance, the P3V4X is a total nightmare.

My P3-700E runs at 1035 MHz on my P3V4X.

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