help choose between BE6-II or CUSL2-C

[pixelman]

I have a PIII-700 chip and MSI slotket I'm currently running in my BH6 @ 868MHz. I'm giving this mobo to my son with my old celery chip, and need a new mobo for my PIII. Have Micron PC133 Cas2 RAM, and the BH6 runs the PIII at 933 fine (but I don't leave it at that, cause I don't want to fry my Live! card with the 44.3MHz PCI bus the BH6 limits me to).

Your thoughts on which mobo you guys think would be better? I understand the CUSL2-C's 815E chipset has slower throughput for RAM compared to the BX chipset. But would the CUSL2-C let me clock my PIII higher more reliably perhaps? Any advantage on getting the CUSL2-C at all?

thanks for your input.

 

[Tschaft]

Well, ive never had a be6-ii, but i do have the cusl2-c, and a 700e that i can get up to 1084.

 

[AndyHui]

The i815E may have slower RAM benchamrks than a BX chipset, but as far as real life applications, the i815E chipset based boards do perform on par with BX based boards, and in many cases outperforms the older chipset.

The CUSL2 or CUSL2-C will give you the 1/2 AGP divider as well as the 1/4 PCI divider, allowing you to keep your peripherals closer to spec. Overclocking flexibility should be much better than your old BH6.

 

[pixelman]

Thanks - I ordered the CUSL2-C last night.

--piX