Abit BE6-II at 133 FSB?

[Hawkes2K]

I've got an Abit BE6-II that I've been using a Cel2-566 OCed to 850 for awhile. I just got a P3-933 for a good deal and would like to run it in the BE6-II.

I've got the chip running at 100Mhz FSB (700), but am wary of pushing it to 133 with my PC100 memory (Kingston "Value RAM", if it matters). With memory as cheap as it is, I'm not unwilling to spend some money to get new PC133 memory, BUT (and here's the catch) - the BE6-II uses the Intel 440BX chipset, which as far as I can tell, is ONLY rated to run at 66 or 100 mhz FSB.

So, here's the question :

Has anyone had any experience running the Abit BE6-II (v1.01 to be specific) at 133 FSB?

The Abit website lists it supporting up to P3-800, but curiously, their BIOS update page for the same board show the BIOSes supporting up to P3-1000. I've upgraded to the latest, and it DOES show a P3 933 (133) in the chip selection field, but I'm still wary of the 440BX issue, and would like to avoid getting a new MB if possible.

Thanks in advance for any advice..

 

[burnedout]

I haven't ran a BE6-II at 133 MHz FSB, but have a BH6, ver 1.02 running a PIII 866 at full speed. Very stable. No crashes yet.

For memory, go ahead and get the Crucial memory for your board.

Link to Crucial memory for BE6-II

It's cheap right now with free shipping. Get the PC133 CL2 flavor.

I have ran PC100 on the BH6 at PC133. Out of three I've tried, one has failed - a Mushkin module.

I can't guarantee you if it will work. Have heard of mixed results. More often than not, it should run OK.

 

[MCS]

I have run a BH6, BE6 and a BE6-II at 133Mhz FSB no trouble.

Two things though:

1) The RAM can handle it
2) The AGP card (if any) can handle running out of spec at 89Mhz over 66Mhz (2/3 AGP divider).

 

[damien6]

I had the 1st version of Abit BE6-II and even though Abit/BX chipset don't officially support 133FSB, it does it fine. Since most modern vid cards shouldn't cause you that much problems operating on a slightly increased FSB, you should be OK but I hightly recommend that you get yourself some PC-133s though.

 

[GiveMeDeals]

The only 2 problems you will encounter when running 133Mhz FSB CPU on BX chipset motherboards are AGP bus too high(2/3 of 133Mhz FSB which will 88Mhz for your AGP bus because BX chipset does not support 1/2 divider) and your PC100 memory. I have been running BE6 II rev1.0 and 1.2 on my 500E and 700E both at 140Mhz without any problems. I would suggest you give it a try, the worse case might be the system won't make into windows or crashing under games.

 

[Poof]

I ran my BE6-2 @133 FSB for 5 months (P3 600@800, Mushkin PC100 CAS3) and have been running it @162 FSB for the last 5 months (P3 600@972, Kingmax Tiny BGA PC150 CAS3). To do that, I switched out the AGP vid card and replaced with a same model PCI (Voodoo 3 3000).

 

[Hawkes2K]

Many thanks everyone.

I crossed my fingers, set the FSB to 133 last night, and haven't had a single problem yet.

This is with PC100 memory (will probably buy 2x256 PC133 soon if I can foist my PC100 256 on my neighbor!) and a Leadtek TNT2 AGP video card. Played quite a bit of Firearms last night and some Red Alert2 C&C in addition to plenty of email and websurfing, and system seems to be rock solid so far.