Motherboard for Dual P3 700 system

[Blayze]

I am planning on building a dual P3 700 system in a few weeks.
I will be using windows 2000 and need to know what is a good motherboard for this setup?
I will be using 256 megs PC133 ram, Antec KS188 full tower with 300 watt powersupply, and a Maxtor 7,200 ATA 66 hard drive.
I do not need a board that uses rambus or scsi.
also do any of these boards support ACPI?

also if you could how much would I be looking at ($$ wise) for the board? and also where is a good place to order it from.


-Blayze

 

[Redneck]

People have been saying good things about the Tyan Tiger 100 lately. It's preferable that you get the latest revision F board because it is sure to support coppermines out of the box. its around 178$ last time I checked.

 

[StuckMojo]

I just built a dual 700 running at 933 (with FCPGA chips) on the TYAN Tiger 133A.

Use the ABIT SLOCKETS if you go this route.....I had problems using both cpu's with the MSI 6905 Master Slocket.

 

[TheBigZ]

I'm thinkin about the same thing myself. I'm looking for a very similar board, tho I'd really like to have ata100. I'd also like a bios that was OC friendly (ie: small fsb stepping, etc). I suspect the board we seek doesn't exist yet

Z

 

[TechSeeker]

I heard a lot of good about the MSI 6321(694D Pro) but not much latitude for OC. Its still possible to go from Piii700 to 933 if you are lucky. MSI is considering updating the BIOS to give better FSB ranges and core voltage adjustment for OC. Checkout their website 'www.msi.com.tw' for full spec.

The other, Tyan (Tiger 133)is another candidate. OC is possible but the cooling may be a problem due to the distance between the two slots.

I am looking at building a dual CPU system from one of the above boards, right now I am 60/40 for the MSI. I am on a tight budget so the CPU choice might be Celeron thats capable of SMP to start of with. Still researching on this...

 

[TheBigZ]

Someone just pointed me towards the 694D, and from what I've seen, it looks like it might actually be a good overclocker. Anand's review of the bios (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1278&p=4) seems to show that it will let us tweak the voltage and the fsb in relatively small increments.

I think I've decided that this is the path I'm going to take. This board and a pair of cb0 stepped (or maybe cc0 by the time I get around to it <G>) 700's clocked to 933. My hope is to run win2k and vmware for a redhat window. I've heard vmware works, but can really crater a system. I'm hoping dual 933 and 256meg of ram will make it run smoother. I would really appreciate any feedback from anyone who has tried this on this kind of machine.

Z