soyo 6vba via apollo 133 for sale

[bigslammer]

used it for family pc instead sorry for any inconvienence. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

I'll sell this board which came with norton's ghost, antivirus, and virtual drive for $75 plus shipping. I'll be honest with you tell you that this is not a good board if you have an agp video card and are a hardcore gamer. It is good if you have a newer p3 chip and need the 133fsb and 1/2 agp divider or use a pci video card. I can't tell any performance decreases but all the benchmarks I've run are telling me that the bx is a better chipset. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by bigslammer (edited 12-28-1999).]

[bdog]

I don't need this board as I already have one, but I must say it is the best board I have ever had. I am running a p3450 at 617 rock stable at default voltage crackin rc5 24 -7 . I also have an agp viper 770 ultra in it and It plays games very smooth. I play Unreal tournament a lot on it and it works great. I just ran 3dmark2000 on it (640x480 16 bit color) and got 29?? 3Dmarks. I actually replaced my abit bx6 r2 that had nothing wrong with it with this board. I am in no way conected with this deal, I just wanted to let all of you know how happy I am with the board.

[bigslammer]

bdog yes this is a very good board for some people but have you run any benchmarks on it. currently I'm running my celery366@605mhz and memory at 146mhz on the soyo 6vba. first I thought wow. my old bx was only running it at 550mhz and memory at 100fsb. but in a lot of benchmarks it seems like the bx is a better performer(I'm not a great salesman, but I just want to be honest to anybody considering buying it). at a higher clock speed and memory running so high I get about 7 fps less than my bx at 550mhz. not a large difference but for a gamer it is somewhat annoying. It may be that these benchmarks are unfairly weighted towards intel chipsets(amd benchmarks do score lower for no real reason on sisoft). and yes 90% of the people who have gotten this have been estatic about this board but it doesn't seem to work great for unreal(the game I play most) but works absolutely fine for rogue spear and half life and superbike. but I play unreal most and it runs really well on a bx chipset with less clipping in my opinion.

[Mntsnow]

Slammer...I'm at work right now but email me a confermation and It's a done deal!

Mntsnow

[codybear]

if this isnt sold then e mail me

[Mntsnow]

FYI, Slammer ended up keepping the Mobo and building a computer for his mom.

ps. Hope she liked it!

Mntsnow

[codybear]

thanks Mntsnow

[bigslammer]

sorry about not correcting this yet out of town for awhile. thx for the clear up mntsnnow. she actually likes her old one better eventhough this is faster and I've set it up to dual boot win98 and NT4. just ended up popping in another 64mb of RAM on the older machine and she likes it better on the oldie. this will probably end being for my sister's instead(eventhough she is about the meanest sibling one could have http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif )