Motherboard help

[old.jim]

I have recently got my hands on a p3 600 and i need to upgrade my mboard. Any help on a good buy would be much appreciated, price doesnt matter i am just after quality although i would like a chipset based on intel bx setup.

 

[old.frankie]

gigabyte bx2000
simple

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[old.[GA] Shovel]

I don't know a great deak about hardware setups n stuff, BUT, I have been made aware the BX is starting to struggle a bit with the high end PIII's.

MY tip, as you say price is not a problem, would be an 820 chipset mobo of some description. You shoudl be able to get them with SDRAM slots as well as the RIMM things, and it will let you upgrade RAM more easily at a later date, should you wish to.

/me ques TUG for clarification.

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[old.FingerMagnet]

Me votes that Tug gets his own forum. Titled "Ask Tug, cos no one else really has a clue!"

 

[old.FingerMagnet]

Expect maybe Shovel

Sorry Shovel I just re-read my post, didn't mean to offend anyone. Just that Tug seems to out class anyone when it comes to stuff like this!

 

[old.[GA] Shovel]

FingerMagnet, did that realyl look like I knew what I was talking about?

wow.

/me fears a life as a customer helpline bloke!

j/k (me hopes)

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[kryt]

Go with frankie i say, would cost you that liddle bit more, but worth it. If you need a more budget motherboard, then go for the ever cheep n cheerful Abits. Only real advise of any use - If it says SIS, PC Chips, Trident, Phoenix, AMI on it anyway, u dont want it

Otherwise ask TUG

His the salesman. Im a techy. I just fix stuff

[C5]Kryogen

 

[old.TUG]

I have arrived, you may all now rise... (cuz u look like u r sucking the fl00r when u r bowing)

Rayte then... I say any of these:

MSI 6163 Pro (~£79)
SOYO 6BA+III (~£75)
SOYO 6BA+Iv (~£78)
Abit BE6-II (~£100)

All these are rock stable boards with plenty of tweaks and overclocker friendly. Another top board is the Asus PB3-F (i think thats its name...) as its totally stable as hell but not quite as tweakable as the above boards.

The BE6-II has an imense plethora of FSB's... from 83 to 200MHz in 1MHz increments!

All the above use BX chipsets.

Some i820 boards sound good... those from the likes of asus and aopen sound very nice. Rambus is bastard expensive so ill leave the mem type choice up to you

That'll be 5 quid please

[This message has been edited by TUG (edited 19 December 1999).]

 

[old.Paul B]

One thing you really should avoid (IMHO) is getting one of the i810 chipset m/bs...

Also I've heard bad things about the i820 mobos which have been adapted to use standard DIMMS... The modification used to allow the board to used standard SDRAM aparently slows down the board ALOT...

ATM your best bet is just about any BX based board ABIT, MSI, Soyo, Asus etc..., but if you can wait a while the new i840 chipset is due out RSN and looks like it could be a winner....

Your call...

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[old.jim]

Thanks for all the advice. I have been and bought an msi 6163pro for 75 quid and it seems like a mint board.

 

[old.TUG]

Good choice... very stable and user friendly board