Need New MOBO Whats the BEST for PIII700e?

[BorisDaSpider]

Ok,Mental note to all,,When ever you have a water cooled set up,and you add ram,and think to yourself"Well since I have it all tore out I might as well check for condencation under the peltier" Make DAMN sure you unplug your water pump before you do something stupid like hit the main power switch for some more light!!! Well long story short I hosed my ABIT BE6II and now I have 1 PCI slot that works!!!

So,Now that I need a new MOBO Whats the best??are the new 815i chipsets what to look for??or should I stick to the 440BX Style? If YOU were loking for a new MOBO what would YOU get?? I want the best,and need your help. Thankyou

 

[wild_andy_c]

Now that the 694x chipset is matured - so is the memory bandwidith in many BIOSes.

As such the ASUS CUV4X is a good one.

On the 815e front, the CUSL2C is a great motherboard. ABIt make a huge range of 815 boards too - all very good.

There is no need now to have to use a BX motherboard now - with funny AGP speeds at only 2x and only proprietary UDMA 33.

 

[MsNath]

I love my dual VP6. Its really nice for OCing. I have my 700e well over 1GHZ and stable. It has all the bells and wistles. And even if you dont want a dual CPU board, you can do what im doing and run a single chip in it. The cost of the board is only about $30 bucks more than a single board.

 

[DaveB]

Sorry, but the BX is still faster than either the VIA 133A or i815E or i815EP. With a GeForce AGP card you're good with the FSB up to 155 MHz or so (I've done it myself). Pleny of BX boards come with add-on HighPoint or Promise ATA100 controllers so you're not stuck with UDMA33. Plus you get the additional benefit of 8 vs. 4 IDE connections.

IMHO there's not reason at all to get a VIA 133A mobo with the poor memory and AGP bandwidth plus those ever-changing finiky VIA drivers. An i815E or i815EP is only recommended when overclocking a 133 MHz PIII. Since you're gonna be working with a PIII 700, I think you're better off with another BX. If you liked your ABIT BE6II, why not get a Rev 2 with ATA100 and IDE RAID. Or, if your Abit experience was problematic, there's the Soyo SY-6BA+100 similarly equipped for under $100.

 

[BorisDaSpider]

Well one of my local got a Abit BE6II V2 woth the udma 100 R.A.I.D ,and it even says it runs 4Xagp??Didnt know you could do that with a 440BX I LOVED my old Abit,,So I went with the newer,,Gonna hook it all up tonight Thanks for all the input*s*

 

[DaveB]

It won't run AGP 4X, no BX mobo can. But, it really doesn't matter at this point anyway. All it usually does for motherboards that support it is cause instabilities.

 

[[OC]_SR20DE]

DaveB,
Very well said, Dave. Look at my Sig.. Damn this kicks butt on a system with 440BX/UDMA100. AGP 4x is not important at all since there virtually zero noticeable video performance difference betw. 2x and 4x. You will have about "a frame" or less per second difference in Q3A time demo. Im getting 144.0 fps/sec on a medium amount of Eye candy options on @ 10x7x16 resolution. Zero # of crash in Q3A Looping 8hrs of burn in@ 152mhz FSB on this mobo.

Increments of 1 mhz increase is just wonderful.

 

[Ericsson]

get a BXMaster or BE6-II.

AGP4X...heheehhehe...there's no noticeable performance difference from agp2x so i wouldn't call that an advantage.

as for high agp bus speeds...it's cool...just as long as your card can handle it. as for ATA100, well...the onboard controllers are good except the highpoint. the advantage is, these BX boards are a lot cheaper than the i815E/i815EP and you do get better memory bandwidth and performance. =)