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If you have an Asus CUBX-E Would you please "yay!" or "boo!" it?

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Klosters

Golden Member
I'm interested in this mainboard. All I want to
do with it is run a(133 Mhz FSB) P3EB 800 on it,
solidly. And run a Tekram DC390U2W SCSI host
adaptor. Thanks very much for your hands-on
experience!
 
I don't have a CUBX-E, but I have the regular CUBX and it is a great board.
I'm running a P3-550E@770. It is a very stable and solid board in my opinion.
Switched out the regular heatsink on the BX chipset and put a tennmax one on there.
Works great!
 
It's a very good board....but I would wonder why not the CUSL2/CUSL2-C instead?
 
AndyHui,
I'm slowly building a SCSI box that just might become a poor man's Web Server. While the CUSL-2 and CUSL-2C allow you to OC the FSB to the moon and back, I've been overclocking ever since the C300A @450 popularized the "sport." Frankly, I'm sick and tired of doing it. Watching my temps like a worried maiden aunt is tiresome. Now that AMD's competition has driven Intel's CPU prices down, the price spread is no longer a zillion bucks between a P3E 700 and a P3EB 933. Overclocking is no longer necessary. It is a means to an end for me, not a fetish. I just want to run a P3EB 800 at "stock." Period.

The 440BX chipset is overclocked at 133 Mhz FSB. Nonetheless, my P3B-F accomplishes this with aplomb. At this point, the P3B-F is looking like the best mainboard for my SCSI box. Most folks are happy with their CUBX's and CUBX-E's---yet I just don't think it's a rock solid board. The hassle is that P3B-F's aren't listed on Pricewatch any more. The CUBX-E incorporates a Promise ATA-100 controller. This would let me run ATA-100 HDD's AND U2W SCSI HDD's. The Promise ATA-100 Controller on a PCI card is detected as a SCSI controller in my P3B-F's Bios. Adding a PCI SCSI host adapter to my P3B-F doesn't seem possible, AFAIK.

The long-winded Klosters strikes again. Here's my beef with i815e/ep's: their Sandra 2K/2001 Memory Benchmarks are flat out embarassing. That Chipzilla took a step backwards from the 440BX's performance when they made the i815e's isses me offpay. Why reward a company for making a new product worse than the older one? 160 Mhz FSB capability means nothing to me. As I wrote, I'm SICK of OCing.
 
Sandra benchmarks are very low....that is true....but I suspect that there is something wrong with those benchamrks, as Sandra is known for giving very odd results on i815E boards. Those memory benchmarks are not a very good indication of real world performance anyway. Sandra is also the ONLY benchmark to give those sorts of results...do you fully trust Sandra? I don't. It can't even tell me the AGP divider on my CUSL2.

If you insist on not overclocking, I still think you should get the CUSL2-C....you buy one of these boards, you keep everything in spec, and you can run your drives at ATA100 (questionable gain) without an external controller; AGP is still in spec, unlike the CUBX-(E/L). I still don't see what overclocking has to do with buying a CUSL2-C or not....OC is NOT my primary reason for recommending this board.

Look....if you REALLY want to run everything in stock, buy an Intel D815EA then.
 
Thanks for your reply, AndyHui!
After more examination of the CUBX, I find that I don't think that this is a top notch mainboard. Many people are happy with it--yet the CUBX isn't simply a P3B-F with a S370 instead a of a Slot 1 on it. That's a shame.

I have a question, please. It appears that many mainboards that have a built-in ATA-100 Controller have a separate Bios for it. When you boot, the mainboard's Bios takes a time out, waits for the ATA-100 Controller's Bios to boot, then the mobo's Bios continues booting the mainboard. Plus, the ATA-100 Controller is seen as a "SCSI device" by the board's Bios. If this is so, is it even possible to boot a real SCSI host adapter that's on a PCI card?

Your advise regarding the CUSL2-C is very good. As much as I resent the backward step in some performance benchmarks, the CUSL2-C is a more realistic choice than a CUBX-E. Thank you for your help!
 
You should be able to.
It'll just take a little longer because you have an extra BIOS to boot.

I believe most motherboards with an onboard controller will allow you to disable it like on the CUBX.
 
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