Mobo recommendation pls!

[GeoffS]

I have a P3-500@620 on a P2B-F. I also have a C2-566 waiting for a new home. Looking to buy a new mobo. Would I be better off getting a better board for the P3 and put the C2 on it, or getting a board specifically for the C2? Assuming the C2 will do 800+ (no guarantee there!), which one should I put in the kids' machine (meaning, which one should I keep for myself as the better chip...)

Thanks!

 

[gotbeef]

My rec. is that you keep your P3 with the Asus and get a new board for C2.... It's got more room for good OC loving fun.... But regardless of which CPU you use you'll be looking at the same handful of boards since there are only couple that are really good for OC.

From my experience the good ones are Abit BF6 (you'll need buy a good slocket and a ATA100 controller), SE6, Asus CUSL2, MSI 815E Pro

BE6-II have some compatibility issues due to onboard ATA66 controller, BX133 RAID limits your Vcore @ 1.7V when using C2 (this can be bypassed by hardwiring the vcore to 1.85 but that's a little too high), CUBX is horrible when it comes to C2 566 OC

I really don't have that much experience with Via chipsets but according to my brother they overclock pretty well too. I think CUV4X and the other slot 1 Via board from Asus are the good ones.

 

[GeoffS]

Thanks! My setup is all SCSI, no IDE, so the ATA issues are not (currently) an issue. I've got a recent MSI slocket. Keep the recommendations coming pls!

 

[toph99]

i'd get an Asus CUSL2 and put the celeron on it

 

[rosarian007]

Asus P3V4X or Asus CUSL2

 

[TuffGuy]

one more vote for the cusl2

 

[han888]

asus cusl2, asus cuv4x , asus p3v4x i ever owed that 3 board and i love it!

 

[GeoffS]

Wow.. the Asus sure seems popular here!

 

[han888]

yup, for intel cpu i will choose asus mobo however for amd cpu i dont like to use asus mobo, i dont know why, i never get a luck with amd cpu on asus mobo to overclock stable, i ever owe asus k7v for my athlon 700, asus k7v-t and a7v for my thunderbird 700 and never have succesfull to overlock it, finally i sold the system and change to intel cpu