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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zardoz who wrote (10088)	1/30/2000 9:21:00 AM
From: Zeddie88	Respond to of 14778

Hutch, Am going with the ASUS P3V4X if I can find one! I actually placed an order on Friday for an ASUS P3C-2000 system but will change to the P3V4X motherboard because it offers an extra PCI slot. It's also designed around the Via Apollo Pro 133A chipset which seems to be next generation stuff. I also looked at the Abit BE-6-II but didn't select it because it only supports AGP 1x/2x and not the much faster AGP 4x which the two ASUS boards support. The video card I ordered with my system is the ATI Xpert 2000 32Mb AGP card. The price for the 32Mb version is only $10-20 more than the 16Mb version so I guess they're pushing consumers into buying the board with more memory. By the way, ASUS and ATI provide conflict free multi-monitor support because I am currently running an ASUS P2B with 3 ATI cards! Hope this helps. Regards, Sue :)

To: Zardoz who wrote (10088)	1/30/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

To anyone, opinions as to which is best is appreciated. 1) ASUS P3V4X 2) ABIT BE6-II 3) ASUS P3C2000 I don't know which is best but a couple of the specifications for the Asus P3C2000 seem to be inconsistent. One specifications says it provides support for 133 MHz FSB Intel CPUs. But then latter it says it provides support for up to 1 gigabyte of PC100 SDRAM. Where as the specifications for the P3V4X says it provides support for PC133 SDRAM. Neither motherboard uses a shared PCI and ISA slot.