Best Slot 1 Mobo?

[BlueDevil]

I'm trying to get a little more life from my Slot 1 Pentium III 550e and am hoping that a motherboard upgrade will help. Currently using an early Aopen AX63pro (VIA 133) board and experiencing lots of flakey problems. What seems to work well ... robust and reasonable overclockable? All advise appreciated.

 

[Nessism]

Read Anand's review: BX Review

Note that the P3B-F is very similar to the CUBX without the ATA66 controler. I am running one of these with a Promise card. The board seems to work well with the exception that I can not get power management to work properly with a SDR Geforce card and the Hardware monitoring information seems to report my cpu temp too low for some reason.

As a side note, I changed from a via133a chipset board to the Asus and while I am happy with the performance, the change was not worth the trouble in my opinion.

 

[AndyHui]

I would put forward the BX based ASUS P3B-F and the VIA 133A based ASUS P3V4X.

 

[Super6]

I had the Soyo SY-6BA+III and now the +100. Both run my PIII-550E at 733MHz at default voltage without a hiccup. So the +III for ATA33, the +IV for added ATA66, or the +100 with added ATA100 support. All stable excellent overclockers. I've used these MB's for six systems and haven't had any problems. My brother-in-law has had great luck with his MSI 6163 which is almost a clone (feature-wise) of the Soyo +III.

Super6

 

[Big Lar]

I've had 2 of the soyo boards, 2 of the asus boards, and the present abit be6-2 that I run now, My $ would also be on the asus p3b-f for basic speed and stability. I have heard some darn nice reports on the MSI Bxmaster tho.

 

[CraigRT]

I have used the Asus P3B-F for about 6 months and about 2 mos. ago i went to a Soyo SY-6BA+IV. I LOVE IT, it's a great overclocker, it smokes my P3B-F for that, altho the P3B-F was a very stable board not overclocked, never had any probs.. but the Soyo is even rock solid overclocked... the only thing i do not like about the Soyo is the stupid highpoint controller on it.. it's a pain sometimes.. but it works quite well overall.
both of those boards are slot 1.

 

[Supergax]

Intel SE440BX-2, it's the rock of all motherboards. It doesn't have all the snazzy features of the newer boards, but I used it for almost a year, the thing was the most solid mobo I've ever used. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of 4x agp or ata/66 though. It does have 2x agp.

Currently I'm using the Soyo 6BA+100, and I've had no problems with it. The reason I upgraded from the SE440BX is due to the fact that the Soyo has an Award Bios, the Intel has Phoenix. the Soyo also has an integrated ata/100 controller. I got the Soyo fro $95 from mwave.com.

 

[pjs]

I have both the Soyo SY-6BA+III and the Asus CUBX. Generally, both have been stable, but my overall feeling is that the Soyo is more stable.

Also, I have not had the need to try Soyo customer support. On the other hand, on both CUBX, the mouse does not appear in device manager at all (a microsoft mouse or a logitech mouse, both with drivers suppied by the w98se disk and by the disks that came with the mouse). The mice work fine. Device manager can not identify the what device irq12 is being used by (the mouse). Asus tech support is just ignoring me.

As I said the soyo is my guess for the more stable but I do not know about their customer support. I do know about Asus customer support, though.

Paul