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Most Reliable P3 Mainboard for Win2K

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owensdj

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What do you think is the most reliable mainboard for a Pentium 3 machine that runs Windows 2000? I'm thinking it would be the Asus CUSL2-C. I'd rather not have one that has built-in video or audio. I also don't overclock. Any suggestions?
 
Hello there. I now have a couple Asus CUSL2, non-C, motherboards. They are the most reliable boards I have. I have yet to put all of my machines in my Anand-Rig page, but that's another story. Anyhoo, I've got Windows 2000 to run for over two months of sraight use without crashes. The only tmies I've had to reboot/powerup after that was when I did a DX8 update along with an Internet Explorer update. The stability and compatibility of these boards is just outstanding. They could be a server board as well because it has many PCI slots that you can install adapters into that would allow expansion for many harddrives. When it comes down to it, I have never used a more stable board. It's freaking granite, I tell you. 🙂

Just my $0.02
 
The ASUS CUSL2-C does not have onboard video, and does not normally come with onboard sound.
 
AndyHui, yep I know the CUSL-C doesn't have onboard video or sound. The reason I said that was because I didn't want someone recommending a different mainboard that did have onboard video or sound.
 
The only time the original CUSL2 has onboard video is when you buy an AIMM card for the AGP slot. AIMM is just a little chip, like a stick of memory you put in the AGP slot that the CUSL2 then uses for onboard video. If you don't put the AIMM card in, you don't have onboard video, freeing up IRQs and resources.
 
The CUSL2 can use the onboard i752 video regardless of whether or not you have an AIMM. The AGP Inline Memory Module simply increases the frame buffer/texture memory from using 1MB shared from the system RAM to its own on the AIMM card.

Adding the AIMM makes no changes to IRQs. If anything, it increases the performance of the i815E chipset, since graphics data no longer needs to travel from the system memory and take up bandwidth.
 
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