Worth upgrading?

[Placid]

I currently use a soyo 6ba+III motherboard.
I use a promise ata controller card with it.
I am thinking about buying a Abit SH6 motherboard to replace it.
I have a 800mhz p3 oc to 1008 and have GeForce 3 on order.
Would it worth changing to the Abit SH6 with the ability to use 4x agp and 1/2 agp bus?

 

[DaveB]

No. AGP 4X is worthless, and all previous GeForce cards have run fine with the FSB up to 150 MHz on a BX board. Your's is only at 126 MHz. My GeForce2 GTS card runs fine with the FSB at 142 MHz on my +IV mobo. It's actually run with the FSB at 155 MHz when testing a friends PIII 533 CPU.

Plus your BX is faster than any i815e mobo, and the i815e will not run the future Tualatin PIII's so what's the point?

 

[Placid]

Just feeling that my bx board must be "outdated" by now.
I guess not.
Thanks.

 

[JaY_III]

no way BX boards are the best
nothing can touch a BX board running at 133FSB.. good old AGP 3x

i got a BX board and that IS going to last me till sledghammer
so the goold old BX board still got alot of life left in them

 

[logos]

i swear by bx boards too although sometimes i wish i had a be-6 so i had more voltage options

 

[Big Lar]

The only real good thing regaurding the sh6 versus the bx and agp speeds is that with the 1/2 divider on the sh6, you can usually clock your card higher, however, the agp isn't running as fast, so its kind of a tossup as which scenario is better. Also the SH6 does not have an adjustment for the I/O voltage, which could represent a problem to some cards. Other than that, I like the SH6, and find it to be a Very stable and fast board.

 

[William]

i got a BE-6!

Who wants to touch it?

I said who wants to touch it!?!?!?!?!

(Hope yall have seen that movie to fully get it) The BX are great, they are really stable and 4x agp is no big deal. I love mine, and will be disapointed when it has to go.