Guys need help in buying a new board please help me out, I am not sure which one to get

[VadRad]

Hey guys I need a new board this one has to be rock solid extra good for overclocking I am a hardcore gamer so has to be able to run all the agp cards great and be really stable in games, I also want it to have all the goodies and it has to be a intel supporting board since I just like intel. Can you guys throw some names at me so I know which ones to look at, I was thinking BX133-Raid for abit, but I am not sure so let me know what you guys think, thx

 

[Robor]

ASUS CUSL2. Avoid Abit if you're looking for stability.

Rob

 

[Revelator]

Hi

I have two Abit BX-133 Raid cards and they both work like a charm.
The stability situation you dont need to worry about on this boards thats for sure.
i was able to force a 550E up to 902Mhz on this mb compared to 792 on a Asus P2V4X with the exactly same stuff.
You have the great advantage of UDMA-100 and Raid on them to...not to mention Softmenu 3.
These boards Rulez.

Thanks for the word and Merry X-mas from Sweden.

 

[AndyHui]

Another vote for the ASUS CUSL2.

 

[Robor]

I must disagree with the statement about Abit motherboards being stable. I had a BE6-2 that was running fine for 6 months until it decided to lock up then refused to power back up. The replacement (which took nearly a month to arrive) has bad ATA66 channels, doesn't detect a SB16 PNP ISA card, and locks in Windows when trying to scan for new devices. A few years ago I had an Abit BP6 where the ATA33 channels didn't work (only the ATA66 channels worked) and neither the IDE or Power LED's worked. I work as the Hardware/Network tech in an office with about 50 PC's and over the past year I've had 3 or 4 motherboards go bad. All of them were Abit BH6 boards. You may get a good Abit board but their track record for stability and quality is far from good.

Also, Softmenu3 is nice but Abit is not alone in that area. The ASUS CUSL2 has both multiplier and voltage tweaks in the BIOS as well. If you want ATA100/RAID, get an add-on PCI card.

Rob

 

[ZM]

Hi,

If I was to by an intel chipset based board, it would definetly be the ASUS CUSL2.

Reason: I just love the Asus support and quality. I have no experience with this board, but I do have experience with an Asus P3V4X (mine).


ZM

 

[VadRad]

Hey guys thx for the heads up I read some reviews on the board and it says that it does udma 100/66/33 so it works with ata100 drives I dont care really about raid so I think I am going to go with the asus board