Should I dish my old Abit BE6 for the ASUS P3V4X mobo???

[plucky duck]

Ram is the thing that's stopping me from getting to the 900mhz mark with my P!!!-600e...

If I get the ASUS mobo, I can still use my existing ram cause its got the FSB +/- 33mhz feature that I'd like to use, and besides it also has more FSB options all the way up to 166mhz which would definitly be nice.

AGP 4x is nice also
6 PCI slots is a definite plus.

I've heard thought that the mobo with the old 4-in-1 drivers are a real bottleneck to gaming performance. Does ASUS already have new updated drivers to resolve this problem?

Would the appollo pro133 chipset be in general slower than, on par, or faster than the existing BX-chipset???

With 6x166, maybe I was hoping I could get to the 1 gigahertz mark...

...I'm not being to optimistic...am I?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Plucky

[Target]

From what I have read, the apollo pro133 is slower than the Intel BX chipset, by quite a noticable amount. However, the 133a is supposed to have been a substantial improvement, and on par with the BX chipset.

Can't help you out with the other questions...sorry.

[PsyOps]

I strongly recommend the Asus P3V4X to just about anyone. its a great motherboard. Heck, I bought 2 of them and am running them on a server. My server computer has a 600EB and the client has a 550E. Im going to overclock soon, but just tinkering around in the BIOS was just an experience.

Its a great, and very affordable board. You cant go wrong. =)

[LJE2]

I would also strongly recommend the Asus P3v4x, I have one. I'm using a PIII 550e flip chip and slotket adapter, It's rock stable at 733, don't want to go higher because I also use this machine to keep business records, (I was not able to run this chip at this speed, and be rock stable, real problems with 3D games, on an Abit BH6 or BX6 v 1.02). I didn't even install the 4 in 1 drivers that came with it (v4.20) I downloaded v4.17 from Toms Hardware site, because I read on that site and one other of the slowdown using the 4.20 drivers and the much better frame rate with the 4.17 drivers. When I'm not using it for business, I play alot of 3D racing games, using a 32M LeadTek TNT2 video card, the video is fantastic, and I can play for hours with no problems, I own 3 different BX boards, the 2 mentioned above and a Soyo 6BA+IV, and in my opinion, this board is my favorite because it allows me to get more out of the chip I'm using. I have heard it's slower in some aspects than some of the BX boards, but I've never seen any benchmarks to prove this, besides if you can run a chip at a higher clock speed, who cares that a BX board would be slightly faster if it could run that speed, because it can't, the AGP bus would be way out of spec and cause real problems.