What's the best Abit slot 1 'board?

[Maniac9127]

I've got a friend who's got a P3 650E SECC that he want's to try to overclock to 866, but the 'board he's go at the moment only has 66 and 100MHz FSB speeds. So I've been trying to find him a mobo that he can OC with. I want to get an Abit board because they're jumperless and have no AMR slots. But there are 12 different slot 1 boards there, and I don't know jack about any of them.

I think I narowed it down to the
SH6
BE6-II V2.0
VT6X4
VA6

but I'm not sure on thoes either. If anyone has any ideas on what the best motherboards by Abit are, go ahead and post them.

Thanks

 

[Tripleshot]

I do alot with Abit boards and alot depends on what else he plans to do with his 'puter besides "overclock"
The BX chipset is still good but has a limitation for o/c of 2/3 pci bus as apposed to 1/2 pci bus on a via chipset board. I am not sure if that limitation applies to salano(815).
Raid may be a nice feature to have since he is upgrading. I prefer a raid system for power users and Abit is doing a fine job bringing that to market in IDE format. BE6 II V2.0does a fine job with a good high end graphics card that can O/C above the 66 mghz bus of a non O/C board. It needs to go to 89 mghz. They do make them.

Other than that,the latest(but not necesaraly the greatest) is the 815 board.

My $.02

 

[mcoski]

for tweaking ability be6II by far, with that many fsb options you will be scared spfftless 😛 w00t w00t

 

[Maniac9127]

Thanks for the sugestions, I'll foward them to my friend.



<< The BX chipset is still good but has a limitation for o/c of 2/3 pci bus as apposed to 1/2 pci bus on a via chipset board. I am not sure if that limitation applies to salano(815) >>



Uh, do you mean 1/3 and 1/4? So are you saying the BX chipset doesn't default to 1/4th when the FSB is set to 133? Or what?

 

[bonkers325]

abit Sh6 is a great choice cause it is a slot 1 815e hehe 🙂