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I decided to assemble my own PC about 2 weeks ago, and decide to use the Pentium III - 933 Mhz CPU - socket-370. (the best price I am getting is about 250$, does anybody know a better deal. please share).
Now I am trying to decide on a Mobo. From the reviews I figured its going to be one of the following three: Asus, Abit or Soyo. Correct me if I am wrong. I want to build a system which is pretty expandable and not limited by number of PCI slots/max RAM on board/FSB speed/slow HD. Also, since I am not upgrading, I dont want any old AMR/CMR or ISA slots.
I was trying to compare the ABit SA6R and the Asus CUV266 mobos (I also looked at Ausus CUSL2, very much like SA6R; please comment). I like both of them, but cant figure out which one is better since they use different chipsets. SA6R uses the 815e chipset which limits the system RAM to 512Mb only, but this chipset is recommended by many and since its made by Intel it may work better with PIII. On the other hand, the CUV266 is based on VIA® VT8633 133MHz AGPset with VT8233 South Bridge chipset which allows 133MHz FSB and 3GB PC2100 / PC1600 DDR DRAM.
Ausus CUV266 -http://event.asus.com.tw/expo2000/smb/cuv266.asp
Ausus CUSL2 - http://event.asus.com.tw/expo2000/smb/cusl2.asp
ABIT SA6R - http://www.motherboards.com/catalog/product_info.php?category_id=4&index_id=7&subcategory_id=7&products_id=307&
Am I comparing apples to apples here? By all means it seems that the new board CUV266 by Ausus is much better, but still wanted some sort of review. Any idea about prices on these mobos?
I decided to assemble my own PC about 2 weeks ago, and decide to use the Pentium III - 933 Mhz CPU - socket-370. (the best price I am getting is about 250$, does anybody know a better deal. please share).
Now I am trying to decide on a Mobo. From the reviews I figured its going to be one of the following three: Asus, Abit or Soyo. Correct me if I am wrong. I want to build a system which is pretty expandable and not limited by number of PCI slots/max RAM on board/FSB speed/slow HD. Also, since I am not upgrading, I dont want any old AMR/CMR or ISA slots.
I was trying to compare the ABit SA6R and the Asus CUV266 mobos (I also looked at Ausus CUSL2, very much like SA6R; please comment). I like both of them, but cant figure out which one is better since they use different chipsets. SA6R uses the 815e chipset which limits the system RAM to 512Mb only, but this chipset is recommended by many and since its made by Intel it may work better with PIII. On the other hand, the CUV266 is based on VIA® VT8633 133MHz AGPset with VT8233 South Bridge chipset which allows 133MHz FSB and 3GB PC2100 / PC1600 DDR DRAM.
Ausus CUV266 -http://event.asus.com.tw/expo2000/smb/cuv266.asp
Ausus CUSL2 - http://event.asus.com.tw/expo2000/smb/cusl2.asp
ABIT SA6R - http://www.motherboards.com/catalog/product_info.php?category_id=4&index_id=7&subcategory_id=7&products_id=307&
Am I comparing apples to apples here? By all means it seems that the new board CUV266 by Ausus is much better, but still wanted some sort of review. Any idea about prices on these mobos?