Thinking about a P3V4X, have questions. please help

[kami]

I am thinking of buying a ASUS P3V4X...have a couple questions

1. Any issues with Celeron 2's? I have a 566 that I want to run at 850. (i noticed the lowest voltage it supports is 1.65, and this cpu is 1.5. I will be running it above 1.65 certainly, so i assume it won't be a problem?
2. I found a place in town with a great price on it but he says he won't provide any kind of warranty on it and I'd have to deal with ASUS. He says they cause too many head aches? How is ASUS's support? And if I get a bad mobo, they'll take it back easily?
3. Are all the new P3V4X's only equipped with 16 FSB settings? if so, what 16 are they?
4. If I do get it, could someone list all the drivers and patches I should get? and where i can get them? i will be running win98 on this machine, but possibly win2k later.

this is my hardware:

Celeron2 566 (o/c to 850, maybe more, maybe less) with ABit Slotket !!!
256MB PC100 (4 x 64mb dimms)
Voodoo3-2000 AGP
Diamond monstersound MX300 PCI
D-Link 10Mbps NIC
IBM 22GXP 7200rpm HD
Ricoh 6x4x24 cdrw
Toshiba 5x dvd

will i have any issues with any of this hardware?

thanks!

 

[Vegito]

see if they'll test the mobo in front of you before you buy it if they're not giving your warranty.. I thought the c2 were 1.65... guess I must be mixing drinks with p3s..

 

[kami]

yes I probably will do that. This guy is pretty trustworthy anyway.

and yeah, C2's (at least 533 and 566) are 1.5v default.

anyone else??

 

[Tikerz]

Take a look over at the P3V4X forum at overclockers austrailia. Those guys know this board inside out.

 

[birddog]

I have one of the older P3V4X's. It is a rather glitchie board. I have run a Tyan Trinity 400 and a Abit VT6X4 with much more stability. The P3V4X will let me push my cpu farther than the other boards thought. The trade off is some stability for better overclocking. I also have noticied that I have to run my voltager higher on my P3 500 to keep it mostly stable at 733 on the P3V4X that I had to do on the VT6X4 (everything else was the same).

EDIT: also, my P3V4X is real fussy on what slotkit it has in it. I tried an IWill slotkit 2 & one of the MSI ones & got many fatal exceptions. A cheap $10 generic slotkit seems the be the best on it -- I hardly see fatal exceptions, but I still get plenty of 'illegial operation' errors.

 

[kami]

well i got one all set up..no problems so far, and I can overclock my 566 higher and with better stability than on my BX board. it's one of the newer ones with a winbond clockgen, so only 16 FSB settings...but it's supposedly more stable than the older ones.

 

[slpaulson]

You might wanna trade that Abit slotket for something from Iwill or MSI. I have heard of a few people that had the abit slotkets holding them back.

 

[kami]

holding me back? I'm quite happy with 566 @ 875..