Seriously thinking of getting a VP6, comments wanted!

[Treker]

Hey Guys,

Well I got a lil money on hand and yes, its come time to pick out a new mobo for my new case!

I've been doing some serious drooling over the abit VP6 motherboard and wanted to hear from those of you who have this board if it is any good or not.

And if I should get it, or wait for a better dual pentium board, or if I should jump ship and go to AMD!! hehe..

Well I have to admit the choices are almost endless, so any input is welcome as always!

What I want is a board taliored to the Overclocker in all of us, and will run the latest in processor technology, AND be completly upgradeable for the future! .. thats not to much to ask right? :-Þ

Laters!

-Trek
P.S: Wrote my first review for Overclockers.com whoo hoo!

 

[phantom punisher]

this is the only board ive ever owned so ill give my opion for what its worth. first off after learning more about dual boards im not in a big hurry to get a second cpu for this thing. the bios is the real gem on this rig and i bet you will find it on cheaper single cpu abit product. a great feature of the bios is a memory option of going with the cpu+the pci clock. that alone allows me to get this 800e(fairly high multipleyer of 8) to the 1 gig barier with a health 155fsb hitting the memory other wise it would be 125 and the guys using 700's to hit a gig would cream me with memory bandwidth. thats my favorite feature. as for the rest it has tons of room around the sokets for heatsinks, and in general seems to be great. oh and nothing on the board gets hot. i keep looking for some cool mobo mods to do but everthing is cool to the touch. theres a lote of slots on this thing too but im sure youve seen the stats. tim should be stopping by with the good word. hes my adopted mentor on the vp6

 

[phantom punisher]

i dont know what that smoking guy is doing in there but its should be the number eight

 

[Treker]

Yeah, Think Tim will be here with the good word any time now

-Trek

 

[Tim-]

Nothing like being predictable... I have two VP6's both running 700e's at 1GHz. I can't really say anything bad about this MB. It has every feature you could ever want except built in SCSI or LAN, and I prefer external devices for that anyway. With the new Via drivers, it's performance is not too far behind the BX for memory. The on-board RAID works well and really speeds things up. W2000 has no problems with it at all.

On a couple of the dual cpu forums I participate in, the only negatives ever heard regarding this board are from Abit haters that have never tried one- the general consensus is that it is a great board.

There is an issue with certain SCSI controllers and the VP6, but Abit is working to correct them.

 

[Treker]

Tim- (Mar 21, 2001 07:00 a.m.):
Nothing like being predictable... I have two VP6's both running 700e's at 1GHz. I can't really say anything bad about this MB. It has every feature you could ever want except built in SCSI or LAN, and I prefer external devices for that anyway. With the new Via drivers, it's performance is not too far behind the BX for memory. The on-board RAID works well and really speeds things up. W2000 has no problems with it at all.

On a couple of the dual cpu forums I participate in, the only negatives ever heard regarding this board are from Abit haters that have never tried one- the general consensus is that it is a great board.

There is an issue with certain SCSI controllers and the VP6, but Abit is working to correct them.

Thats generaly what I've heard about the board, yet I cant find a review of it on O/C !

Arg, anyways I was wondering whats the allowed FSB and muliplyer settings, and top speed!

Laters,

-Trek

 

[Tim-]

I don't recall exactly- I think 178 might be the correct answer for FSB. I haven't rebooted in a couple months and don't normally unless I'm installing something... According to the trusty book, they show 12x as the top multiplier, and 150 as the top FSB, but there is an additional field that let's you add up to 28MHz in 1MHz increments to all FSBs, so 178 would be correct. The extra field allows 1MHz steps all the way up between FSB settings.

 

[Treker]

Tim- (Mar 21, 2001 08:58 p.m.):
I don't recall exactly- I think 178 might be the correct answer for FSB. I haven't rebooted in a couple months and don't normally unless I'm installing something... According to the trusty book, they show 12x as the top multiplier, and 150 as the top FSB, but there is an additional field that let's you add up to 28MHz in 1MHz increments to all FSBs, so 178 would be correct. The extra field allows 1MHz steps all the way up between FSB settings.

Sweet, sounds like a very good board for getting the most out of your set up.

Think I'll hold off a bit on getting it though, thinking of waiting for the new Northwood mobo.

Then again, I'm still trying to figure out how to program my system clock chip, apperently nobody here knows nothing about doing that :-{

-Trek