I have an Asus P3V4X, Abit SE6, Asus P3B-F, Asus P2B, Epox KP6-BS, a Soyo 6BA+ rev III, and an MSI 6167.
- The P3B-F is my work machine's board. Sturdy, OCs to 124FSB with all four DIMM slots filled, takes my PIII-650 to 806 at 1.8v core with ease. Rock solid.
- The P2B is the workhorse. It's been in my possession for two years. It's now a HL/UT game server, running Linux. Rock solid as well, at 112FSB with a PIII-450.
- The P3V4X is solid, but AGP performance is all over the map. It can handle oodles of RAM. It is now a server mobo for a storage box I've recently put up. It held 146FSB with my PIII-550E as a game machine for a month or so, and now holds the PIII-550E at 733 for server work.
- The SE6 died less than two weeks after getting it. First, it couldn't do an extended POST (RAM count). Now it just spontaneously reboots. When it was working, it went to 153FSB (-33 for the RAM) with my PIII-650 (that's 5mhz shy of the magic 1000Mhz mark). Oh well. I'm RMAing it, and I've also purchased an Asus CUSL2. The i815's AGP implementation is as solid as the 440BX's.
- The 6BA+ rev III is a bastard child. After about two months of use, I think I snagged it on something while putting in more RAM. The result? I could no longer "warm boot" and get video on my AGP cards (PCI was fine). Replaced it with an IV, which was not as good and has been subsequently sentenced to hard time as the board for a relative's machine. The rev III has been passed around amongst my friends, etc. Interestingly enough, I got it back a couple weeks ago. When the SE6 died, I transplanted in the 6BA+ rev III with a PII-266 so I could play Diablo II. Wonder of wonders! It can warm boot with the V5-5500 (must be the 5v supply line on AGP that went bad), and it stays UP all the time. Didn't crash yet. Diablo II even runs well!
- The KP6-BS has never gotten a workout. I know it will run W2K Advanced Server, and Linux, but I've not had the time to get down to it and get it set up properly. My goal's to get it up and running with 768MB of RAM and twin PII-450's OCed to 504 so I can use VMWare to play with OSes.
- The MSI 6167 was nothing special. It worked with my Athlon 550, but the 550 didn't OC, and I couldn't lock in the IRQs in the BIOS like I can with all the other boards. My friend now has it, as his MSI 6167, bought the same day at the same time from the same vendor, died. His Athlon's working fine on it, and he loves it for EverCrack, er LevelQuest, er EverQuest.
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The P3V4X is a solid board. Just wish the AGP problems had worked themselves out sooner. For gaming, though, I'm expecting big things from the CUSL2. Intel AGP, with SDRAM, and OCable out the ying-yang (based on reports, and the specs). Only time will tell.