biostar m6vlq?

ncbadboy2004

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hi guys its me again, any opinions on biostar as a motherboard manufacturer? they have one I'm eyeing to replace that POS bp6 i posted about earlier, the m6vlq seems to fit the budget and has mostly what I need in a mb barebones to get my pc up and running again. please advise thanks.
 

ncbadboy2004

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well since no one is replying i guess you dont know the specs or wanna go look them up, so here they are, i'm trying to put a celeron 1 500 mhz cpu with a 256 mb generic pc-133 memory stick and a wd 60 gb ata100 hdd along with a smc nic and a generic pci modem into this board, i think it will do what i want but just want to make sure i'm not buying another piece of junk like the last board i had.

CPU
− Supports the CeleronTM processor (FC-PGA & FC-PGA2) and the
Pentium® !!! Micro-Processor (FC-PGA & FC-PGA2) and VIA C3
Samuel 2 for high-end workstations and servers.
− CPU Socket 370.
Speed
− Runing at 66/100/133 MHz Front Side Bus frequency.
− Supports up to 1.2 GHz CPU core speeds.
− The 33 MHz 32 bit PCI 2.2 compliant.
Chipset
− Chipset-VIA 8601T/82C686B
− LAN Chip RTL8100.
DRAM Memory
− Supports two 64/128/256/512 MB DIMM module sockets.
− Supports Synchronous DRAM (3.3V).
− Supports a maximum memory size of 512 MB with SDRAM.
− 100/ 133Mhz Bus frequency.
Internal Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) Controller
− AGP v1.0 compliant.
− Pipelined split-transaction long-burst transfers up to 533 MB/sec.
− Eight level read request queue.
− Four level posted-write request queue.
− Thirty-two level (quadwords) read data FIFO (128 bytes).
− Sixteen level (quadwords) write data FIFO( 64 bytes).
− Intelligent request reordering for maximum AGP bus utilization.
− Supports Flush /Fence commands.
− Graphics Address Relocation Table (GART).
High Performance rCADE3D™ Accelerator
− 32 entry command queue,32 entry data queue.
− 4Kbyte texture cache with over 90% hit rates.
− Pipelined Single Cycle Setup / Texturing /Rendering Engines.
− DirectDraw™ acceleration.
− Multiple buffering and page flipping.
Setup Engine
− 32-bit IEEE floating point input data.
− Slope and vertex calculations.
− Back facing triangle culling.
− 1/16 sub-pixel positioning.
Rendering Engine
− High performance single pass execution.
− Diffused and specula lighting.
− Gouraud and flat shading.
− Anti-aliasing including edge,scene,and super-sampling.
− OpenGL compliant blending for fog and depth-cueing.
− 16-bit Z-buffer.
− 8/16/32 bit per pixel color formats.
Texturing Engine
− 1/2/4/8-bits per pixel quality non—palletized textures.
− 16/32-bits per pixel quality non-palletized textures.
− Pallet formats in ARGB 565,1555,or 444.
− Tri-linear,bi-linear,and point-sampled filtering.
− Mip-mapping with multiple Level-Of-Detail (LOD) calculations and
prespective correction.
− Color keying for translucency.
2D GUI Engine
− 8/15/16/24/32-bits per pixel color formats.
− 256 Raster Operations (ROPs).
− Accelerated drawing: BitBLTs,lines,polygons,fills,patterns,clipping,bit
masking.
− Panning,scrolling,clipping,color expansion,sprites.
− 32x32 and 64x64 Hardware Cursor.
− DOS graphics and text modes.
− One level TLB structure.
− Sixteen entry fully associative page table.
− LRU replacement scheme.
− Independent GART lookup control for host /AGP /PCI master accesses.
− Windows 95 OSR-2 VXD and integrated Windows 98/ NT5 miniport
driver support.
Sophisticated Power Management Features
− Independent clock stop controls for CPU / SDRAM,Internal AGP and
PCI bus.
− PCI and AGP bus clock run and clock generator control.
− Low-leakage I/O pads.
General Graphic Capabilities
− 64-bit Single Cycle 2D/3D Graphics Engine.
− Supports 2 to 8 Mbytes of Frame Buffer located in System Memory.
− Real Time DVD MPEG-2 and AC-3 Playback.
− Video Processor.
− I2C Serial Interface.
− Integrated 24-bit 230MHz True Color DAC.
− Extended Screen Resolutions up to 1600x1200.
− Extended Text Modes 80 or 132 columns by 25/30/43/60 rows.
− DirectX 6 and OpenGL ICD API.
DVD
− Hardware-Assisted MPEG-2 Architecture for DVD with AC-3.
− Simultaneous motion compensation and front-end processing
(parsing,decryption and decode).
− Supports full DVD 1.0,VCD 2.0 and CD-Karaoke.
− Microsoft DirectShow 2.x native support,backward compatible to MCI.
− No additional frame buffer requirements.
− Dynamic frame and field de-interlace filtering for high quality playback
on VGA monitors(Bob and Weave).
− Tamper-proof software CSS implementation.
− Freeze,Fast-Forward, Slow Motion, Reverse.
− Pan-and-Scan support for 16:9 Sequence.
Super I/O Built-in onboard
− Support one multi-mode Parallel Port.
(1) Standard & Bidirection Parallel Port (SPP).
(2) Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP).
(3) Extended Capabilities Port (ECP).
− Supports one serial port, 16550 UART with 16 byte FIFO.
− UART data rates up to 1.5 Mbaud.
− Supports one Infrared transmission (IR) port.
− Supports PS/2 Mouse.
− Supports 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB floppy disk
drives.
Direct Sound Ready AC97 Digital Audio Controller
− Dual full-duplex Direct Sound channels between system memory and
AC97 link.
− PCI master interface with scatter / gather and bursting capability.
− 32 byte FIFO of each direct sound channel.
− Host based sample rate converter and mixer.
− Standard v2.1 AC97 Codec interface for single or cascaded AC97
Codec's from multiple vendors.
− Loopback capability for re-directing mixed audio streams into USB and
1394 speakers.
− Hardware SoundBlaster Pro for Windows DOS box and real-mode Dos
legacy compatibility.
− Plug and play with 4 IRQ, 4 DMA, and 4 I/O space options for
SoundBlaster Pro and MIDI hardware.
− Hardware assisted FM synthesis for legacy compatibility.
− Direct two game ports and one MIDI port interface.
− Complete software driver support for Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows ME.
Power Management
− Supports both ACPI (Advanced and Configuration and Power Interface)
and legacy (APM) power management.
− ACPI v1.0 Compliant.
− APM v1.2 Compliant.
− S3 (suspend to RAM) support.
 

Prografx

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Biostar has good boards I have gotten bad boards from them also. If your looking to save money aim for a socket A AMD board and get a low end duron that way you only have to upgrade your CPU when your ready. Socket A boards go any where form duron 600 200 FSB thru Athlon XP 3200+ 400 FSB. hope this helps.

My CPU is so hot I use it to brew my morning JAVA.