Abit BE6-II owners

[ucvb6]

I need to upgrade my CPU b/c the intel celery is sooooo slow.

anyhow, are there any BE6-II owners out there able to run the Pentium III 800mhz 133FSB chip on there board without problems?

Please let me know, last i heard, you needed to download the latest BIOS, but i'am having trouble getting it from Abit's site.
But if that's the only thing i need to do, then i'am gonna get it.

Thanks

 

[Basie]

I had a 700E running at 133fsb for about 18 months till the Board crapped out. So I see no problem in a
800EB doing the same.

 

[eplebnista]

See GH thread.

hth,
eplebnista

 

[Clevor]

First of all, nobody who runs this motherboard is going to run their CPU at default specs, heh.

I've been playing around with a BE6-II Rev. 2.0 board the last 2 weeks. I would say it would do it, considering I am currently running an 866EB (133 FSB) at up to 160! The main thing holding me back is the SDRAM, as I would like to run 2-256 MB sticks for a total of 512. I can only do 150 2-2-2 with two sticks. With one stick I can do 155 2-2-2. I can do as high as 160 3-2-2, except can't complete 3DMark2001. But I am not happy with just 256 MB of ram.

You also need high quality ram! I am using PowMan 7 ns Infineon sticks, or Mushkin Rev. 3.0 (same ram chips).

One problem with the BE6-II board is the BIOS seems to be dropping back memory settings on its own, because I get lousy Sandra benchmarks when running the ram at 150-160 (218/220).

 

[GAZZA]

600e@840 here 140 fsb @ 1.75v, pci running @35mhz and AGP around 92mhz or so . No problems with SCSI card or HD's to speak of

 

[ShinSa]

Are you guys running you agp and pci bus out of spec when you run it at 133Mhz?

Last time I remember, Be6-II does not have a 1/2 agp divider. Only 2/3 and 1/1.

 

[GAZZA]

Correct ShinSa , GTS2 runs fine for me @92mhz .
From what I can gather SCSI drives and controller cards are very picky out of spec on the PCI bus but mine are fine , now whether that is due to the upto dateness of them I don't know , all I know is it works fine at this speed .

 

[Clevor]

Yes, the BE6-II only has a 1/1 and 2/3 divider for the AGP, and 1/3 and 1/4 PCI divider.

I've found a Ti500 does not like FSB above 150 (100 AGP), as my Ti500 locks up no matter what running 3DMark2001, even when not overclocked. Another guy said his Ti200 doesn't like anything over 89 AGP (133 FSB).

A Radeon 8500 is amazing, as it will take up to 160 FSB (107 AGP) no problem, but ram chips get real hot.

So far I've had zero problems running a Tekran U2 controller card and a Seagate 10K U160 drive as my boot at 150-160 FSB. At 155 FSB the PCI is around 39 mhz.

The limiting factor is your SDRAM, as I have yet to get more than one stick stable at over 155 2-2-2. 'Course this is assuming you got a CPU that can get up there, as the BE6-II does not offer asynchronous FSB/RAM settings.

 

[Spock]

Does anybody know where I can buy a Abit BE6-II motherboard.? My board won't post any longer.
If anyone have this board or know where I can get one, email me . Thanks guys.

 

[kaborka]

What slocket are you guys using with your BE6-II? I recently got a 700E + IWill Slocket-II for cheap. The cpu had not been o/c'd. I'm gradually stepping it up to 133. It would not post at 133. At the moment, I'm running at 120, at 1.8Vcore, with PCI at 1/4 and two Micron 256MB sticks @ 3-3-3. It's stable, and I'll try 133 again after running this speed for a while. This chip doesn't seem as willing to o/c as other 700E's.

Do you know if the Slocket-II connects the CPU temp line correctly? Can the Vcore setting in the BIOS override the setting of the jumpers on the Slocket?