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I love my AX6BC's...

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OhioDude

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Lost one of my Seti crunchers with what turned out to be a bad MB. I was pretty sure it was the MB but I wanted to test all the components with another motherboard just to be sure. I have an old spare AOpen AX6BC 440BX laying around that has been swapped in and out of numerous machines, dropped, kicked, poked, prodded, used as a paperweight, abused in numerous other ways, and been sitting on my workbench with all kinds of crap stacked on top of it for the last four months. Yesterday, I pulled that thing out, set it on top of a cardboard box, plugged in the CPU, memory, and video, hooked up an old PS and plugged it in, shorted the power header with a screwdriver and that thing POSTED like a champ.

So I figured what the hay, let's try and boot it. So I hooked up the harddrive from the dead system, threw in the NIC and a mouse and the little trooper booted right into Win98. It's sittin' there all spread out on my workbench, crunching its third WU.

Yea, I know it's old and I don't know how well it overclocks since I don't o/c my office machines, but I've never worked with a more stable MB than the AX6BC. I've got them in three servers and four clients that have all run 24/7 ever since I built them and never had even a hint of trouble with any of them.

Just felt like singing it's praises, a bit... 😉
 
The 440BX chipset rocks at SETI too 🙂

As for overclocking ,you have some FSB speeds to choose from but there is no voltage adjustment ,what cpu is plugged in it?

BTW the SETI Gods might be displeased at you for abusing your m/brd like that 😉
 
This one is running a PIII 500. I've got a couple with PII 400's, a PIII 700, and a few Celery 400's with slokets.

Boy, can you believe somebody who doesn't overclock hanging out in these forums? I'd best be careful, I might get banned for admitting that. 😀
 
When you realise what kind of a boost your SETI production will get if you overclock then you soon will 😉.......

(unless of course they are work machines you don't own)
 


<< When you realise what kind of a boost your SETI production will get if you overclock then you soon will >>


You sure you want to be telling me that seeing as how you're already hearing my footsteps behind you in the TA rankings? 😉

You should have said, &quot;you're a bloody fool if you don't underclock your FSB to run Seti!&quot; 😀

I noticed you don't really have machines with a lot of raw stock horsepower but you get pretty darned good production out of them. And your average WU time is excellent.
 
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