What is the best chipset for Slot 1 PIII's

Wingznut

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I really liked the Asus P3V4X, which uses a Via chipset.

But I'd be real curious to check out the Abit SH6, which I believe is the only Slot 1 board with the i815 chipset. The i815 chipset is generally better than Via's, imho.
 

bacillus

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slot 1 is a dying form.
you can choose between an Asus P3V4X Via or an ABIT SH-6 815e(Intel)!:)
 

Hawk

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It depends on the bus speed of the CPU also. I mean, if it's a 100Mhz, a BX would be fine too, the only problem would be if you are overclocking, then the AGP bus might be too high, and it might not run at >100Mhz very well. But yeah, you shouldn't be buying anymore slot 1 processors.
 

Brylord

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Well what has happened is I was using a P3V4X and an accidental arc fried three PCI slots. Amazingly the thing still works its just buggy now. So I have a P3 550e that runs really well at 733. I'm using the system as a Digital Audio Workstation (for recording music) so stablity is at a premium. The Audio card (an Echo Layla) works really well under the BX chipset (I'm using an old BH6 now). Though the AGP on the BX is a concern (nothing like your system crashing in the middle of a perfect take ). I've had better luck with ASUS than ABIT so I was a little learly of the SH6. Maybe I just start from scratch... Want to buy a P3 5003 ;)

Really, I'm not sure what the best route is at this point. HELP!!!!
 

Viper GTS

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I personally prefer the BX chipset. The BX133 platform is very fast, & stable as hell. Only disadvantages are no AGP 4X, & 1/2 AGP divider, & no DMA66/100 controllers. The last one of course can be easily rectified with a $20 Promise controller.

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rogue1979

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The BX platform is the most stable and fastest platform for the P3. However as mentioned above it doesn't support 4X AGP and a 1/2 AGP divider. The Abit BE6-2 is the top notch board for slot 1. Solution: Stick that 550E on there and go for the 133 fsb, there is a 1/4 setting for pci bus speed, pop a V3 in there it will run perfect at the 33% faster AGP bus. If you need more video power than pop a V5 in there, it doesn't use 4X at all and use the overclocking utility to lower the card speed to about 180MHz or so, you'll have to use your math to adjust. I just bought a V5 for $120, I have a Geforce2 GTS 32MB DDR and I like the V5 more! Everbody is saying slot 1 is dead, but that's not true, it is finally getting affordable. Take a BX board shove a 700E or 750E in there, overclock to 1GHz and use the V5, and you have a formidable gaming machine.