DUALLY: Acorp 6A815EPD Vs. ECS D6VAA??

[butch84]

I currently have a MSI 694D dually mobo, but i need to get another one, for two reasons. One, i have a pair of matched celeron 400s that will be going in to use at my parent's place. When this happens, the msi board is going with them. The new board will be running my matched pIII700s @ 800. The other reason, is i want to try to overclock them more. I know for certain that one of the PIIIs can do 933, and i would think the other could go past 800. Unfortunately, i cannot go any higher with the msi mobo.

Also, the Acorp 6A815EPD is only 30 bucks at www.compgeeks.com, and it runs the i815ep chipset, which is more appealing to me than the via chipset in the ECS. However, the ECS mobo seems to have much better overclocking features . . . Unfortuneatly, im not sure where i can find one.

Anyway, does anybody have any thoughts on this??
Thanks a bunch,
desertfox

 

[FishTankX]

It might be intresting to know, that one time anandtech tried the acorp board and it locked up after being overclocked 1MHZ. Ran solid as a rock at stock speeds though.


That was with a 133FSB PIII though, I'm not sure what would happen with your board. At any rate, I trust the i815EP much more than the 694D

 

[butch84]

Yeah, it looked good for 30 bucks, but lots of people on the 2cpu forums seem to think the acorp board is a pos, so i will stay away from it. Now im looking at either an Abit VP6 or an ECS DV6AA mobo.


Butch

 

[FishTankX]

I wish there was a cheap dual capable intel chipset, because Dual CPU VIA machines aren't 100% problem free. I'd trust something on the i815EP and they didn't mention anything wrong with the ACorp board in the dual CPU article, why not buy the ACORP board first and see if yo ulike it? And if not, RMA it..

 

[Texun]

Found this post doing a search. It's got some age on it but I thought I would add my experience with the Acorp for butch in case he hasn't made his move yet.

I wish I could tell you that is a bullet with two PIII's but unfortunately all I can comment on is how it runs with an itty-bitty 700 Coppermine and 384 megs of memory. Not a problem one with so far using the single cpu. It may not be king of the hill as far as dual cpu boards go but for $30 it's hard to beat, especially when I can't find anything to gripe about, other than the fact that my luck with OC'ing hasn't panned out, but then again I didn't try all that hard. Others at 2cpu.com have had good luck cranking it up. To each his own I guess. Wouldn't have this as a full time office rig due to the RAM, but for a personal box or FS it does the job very well.

See what this guy did with his board.

I am itching to try a second 700 but not until I can steal one. It would be nuts for me to jump off and pay $80 for another 700 when this one runs solid as a rock and does the job. Since Butch already has 2 cpus it may be a board worth taking a chance on.

The reason I went with it instead of an XP was mostly due to the power requirements. It runs cheap. I believe the 700 Coppermine is rated somewhere around 20 watts compared to the 60+ watts of the AMD.

 

[LikeLinus]

ECS DV6AA. I run dual 600e's @ 825mhz and have never had a problem! It also has 512MB of RAM taking up 3 slots (2) 128mb ECC Kingston and (1) 256MB ECC Samsung. So i can say i've even had decent expereience with mixed ram. It runs 24/7 and never had it go down for anything.

I've had no experience with the Acorp. The fact that i've never even heard of them would steer me away from them, but that's personal preference.