P4 + HT = 800mhz fsb....... or so this guy says.

zme-ul · August 1st, 2006, 07:28 PM

well ... about FSB: the EE ones have 1066 (965 and 955)
http://www.intel.com/products/proces.../pentiumxe.htm

about best mobo ... whell ... I wold't trade any of my GigaByte mobos for anything alse

Dyre Straits · August 1st, 2006, 08:15 PM

I'll have to admit that I've used ABIT boards for several years now and only had one bad experience -- a BE6-II that had those capacitors to leak. Not only ABIT was a victim of those, though.

Presently, I'm using the one in my sig: ABIT IC7-G and a P4 w/HT @3.2 GHz. This system is about a year and a half old now.

My son, too, uses ABIT boards. Used a TH-7 with RAMBUS for years. Only recently upgraded to something else.

ABIT also has a very, very good forum where one can get help.

phxz31 · August 2nd, 2006, 10:57 AM

I have my Abit NF7-S pumping my AthlonXP along at 2.33ghz (233mhz FSB x 10) + 233mhz Dual Channel at CAS 2.0-3-2-11 with CMD@1T. (with the help of tictac's modified bioses, the stock Abit bioses didn't overclock as well)

Occasionally when I am rendering video I will lower it to 222FSB x 10.5 (~2330mhz) to avoid the occasional glitch, but I mostly attribute this to my RAM along with the tight timings I run it at. At 222mhz I can run the memory at 2-2-2-6 @1T without any problems at all, but experienced nforce2 ultra users know that for some odd reason you get best performance when you run the TRAS timing at 11 (2-2-2-11).

When I first purchased my Abit NF7-S I did notice that the voltages were very unstable and consecuently the board didn't overclock well. However as soon as I replaced my Antec TruePower430 with a Thermaltake 500watt PSU, my voltages are now dead on and never fluctuate.

squall_leonhart · August 2nd, 2006, 11:28 AM

ok well i apologise, not all abit boards are bad,.. only ones made with a Via shitset...

zme-ul · August 2nd, 2006, 11:48 AM

VIA has a lot of issues with their chipsets

squall_leonhart · August 2nd, 2006, 01:30 PM

actually my terminology is better.

phxz31 · August 3rd, 2006, 04:16 AM

Yeah VIA has been pretty much worthless since the KT266A days ended. My first Abit board was a KT266A actually (Abit KR7A-Raid) and was another pretty decent board, although it did have some stability issues when overclocked much.

squall_leonhart · August 3rd, 2006, 09:06 AM

yeah. kt266 and hell (even the kt400a) has seemed to be pretty stable.

Dyre Straits · August 6th, 2006, 01:54 PM

I have to agree totally with the VIA issue. I won't even own a board that has VIA-anything in it. I did two times early on and spent more time trying to get things working instead of actually using the system.

VIA = Very Ill Assembly

squall_leonhart · August 6th, 2006, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

I have to agree totally with the VIA issue. I won't even own a board that has VIA-anything in it. I did two times early on and spent more time trying to get things working instead of actually using the system.

VIA = Very Ill Assembly

good acronym