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To: Time Traveler who wrote (6252)	5/20/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Adrian Wu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

TT: You are right. The P2B goes up to x8.0 Asus sells for a bit more because of it's name and it's quality. However, it only has 3 DIMM slots and uses jumpers instead of a BIOS setup for frequencies and multipliers. With 133MHz bus frequency, you would need at least a PC100 SDRAM with a CAS latency of 2. Only Samsung makes those currently, and even then, it is quite unstable. I guess if you don't mind your machine crashing frequently (which Windows 95 does anyway without any help), then go ahead. Other factors would include a PCI bus frequency of 44.3MHz, which may screw up some SCSI cards and IDE hard drives, and an AGP bus frequency of 88.6, which a think a lot of graphics cards don't like. Intel charges $260 retail for the SE440BX when everyone else charges $140 - $190. It also has the worst feature set: Fixed 66/100MHz bus speeds with auto detection and only 3 PCI slots (!!!) There are many BX boards to choose from; Epox makes an excellent board, as well as Iwill, Megastar, Microstar and Aopen. Tyan is sort of dying. I'm not familiar with DFI. Supermicro usually makes some nice boards but the components may not be as high quality as Asus. You should read Tom Pabst's review in www.tomshardware.com Adrian