which abit mobo to run with intel 1.6a?

[twikoff]

Ive been real happy with the abit motherboards in the past.. currently using the BE6-II with a 566 @ 850 and 768mb pc133 sdram

I figure my next upgrade will be to the 1.6a.. but cant decide which board I want to look at

I could use a BL7.. that way I could still use my current memory

or I was considering looking into the SD7 or BD7.. and moving to ddr

or even going to the TH7.. and using rambus


Im not crazy about rambus.. and I wanted to use my sdram.. but I feel that the sdram would bottleneck the performance once its overclocked..

Im planning to run the chip overclocked to 2400.. i doubt Ill try to push it up much higher then that.

I guess I could probably sell my 768mb of sdram and buy a single 512 ddr or 512 RDRAM chip.. probably get better performance that way..

just need suggestions on which way would be easier to run, and better to overclock?

 

[UsandThem]

<< and I wanted to use my sdram.. but I feel that the sdram would bottleneck the performance once its overclocked.. >>



SDRAM would be a major bottleneck running the CPU at default speed. DDR or RAMBUS is the only way to go with the P4.



<< just need suggestions on which way would be easier to run, and better to overclock? >>



As you can tell by my username, I am not an Abit fan, but I have read a few post here from Abit users stating that they wish they hadn't bought an Abit board for overclocking the P4 due to some problems with the board. I can't remember the model or the users, but there are many threads under the CPU overlocking section where people talk more about the motherboards and there is a very large thread with many users discussing their overclocks. Most are getting the best overclocks from the Asus P4B266.

 

[twikoff]

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As you can tell by my username, I am not an Abit fan, but I have read a few post here from Abit users stating that they wish they hadn't bought an Abit board for overclocking the P4 due to some problems with the board. I can't remember the model or the users, but there are many threads under the CPU overlocking section where people talk more about the motherboards and there is a very large thread with many users discussing their overclocks. Most are getting the best overclocks from the Asus P4B266. >>



yea.. i considered the asus.. but isnt that the via chipset?
I havent heard anything but bad stories about the via chipset.. the constant crashes and the current lawsuit


I definitly think Im going to go with one of the ddr systems.. since Im pretty sure I can sell my 3 256mb pc133 sdram chips for about the price of 1 512mb 2100 ddr chip.. and i would assume 1 512 ddr will run better then 768 of pc133 sdram.

Im a big abit fan because of how well the be6-II motherboard has been to me... this board is great.. every option known to man, and extremely easy to work with, without having to play with jumpers.