Summary
The IT5V is the board you want to buy in case you think that EDO RAM is waste of money now. There is no doubt about it, that it is the top board of all VX boards. Reliability, flexibility and easyness of use are outstanding amongst all other VX boards. In fact, due to a lack of 64 MB EDO RAM it is the board which I use permanently in my system, since I have 64 MB of SDRAM. However, if I had 64 MB EDO RAM, the IT5H would be my choice.
In can't pronounce it often enough, that the HX chipset is the faster choice and in case you only want to use EDO RAM, the IT5V is the wrong choice. For everyone who thinks that SDRAM is a must now and who doesn't care about the higher price of SDRAM for a little bit less performance due to the VX chipset, the IT5V is the right board to choose.
The advantage of the IT5V over the IT5H is the support of SDRAM and that's about it. You will have to decide for yourself if this is important to you or not. However one other thing could make your decision for the IT5V a little bit easier: It is available now - you won't have to wait as for the IT5H.
Compared with other boards even from the same manufacturer it is the best one to get. As long as there isn't a VX board coming out soon, which will support 83 MHz bus speed and has also 2 DIMM banks. However, maybe we better wait for the first TX boards for that matter. I'll receive the first one hopefully next week and it will have 3 DIMM banks and 75/83 MHZ bus speed support.
