Best Intel boards ?

[KMS]

Hiya, whats the best Intel mobos at the minute for P3 & P4 ? both outright performance & best budget with onboard everything ?

Thanks in advance :)

[Dewill]

Hi Karl
Not to many to choose from m8,
as far as I know PC chips are the only mobos with everything onboard for P3's
As for P4 thats another story.
What do you intend to do with em ?
Regards
Jed;)

[KMS]

Hi Jed,

for the shop really m8, have had numerous requests from Intel die hards who wont convert to good old AMD with all the best persuasion in the world (mostly businesses), & being a bit of an AMD die hard myself (or a modern Intel :newbie: - depends how you look at it :D ) I was after your guys input on whats the best out there with a view to building a few myself and learning a little 'modern' intel again. :)

[bldegle2]

The ASUS models, TUSL2-C (or flavors thereof) or the CUCL2 of the same series.

Both run PIII's and the newer Tualatins, but not the older PPGA Celerons (tried it already, a no go), who wants one of those anyway???

Intel 815e chipset, easy to setup, great for clocking.

baldy:cool:

[KMS]

thanking you :)
i'll look into it :)

[mikester]

baldy,

can a cusl2 really handle a tualatin?????

[bldegle2]

my error, i see no mention of Tualatin support at the Asus website for the CUSL2. thanks for pointing that out.

maybe with a bios update..........

baldy

:xhammer:

[Dewill]

Well i have one on test, an it's looking good:p
Thanks for the heads up Bldegle2.
Regards
Jed ;)

[tripodal]

i run an Asus Cusl 2 and its is quite stellar, ive had the FSB up to 175MHZ with a P3 800EB, it ran quite stablilly for weeks, i cant say eneough about this bored! but ive also seen some fantastic scores and clockspeed from abit boards.

this board is quite easy to overclock, being as soon as proc or ram crashes the board usually reboots on its own to 66mhz fsb within 10seconds, making the overclocking expericene much more fun as compared to some boards with difficult methods to load "safe mode" lol. be weary of one thing if you get this board, some hard drives will become quite toasty and do odd things as 175fsb... had one that would chew up the fat... not fun reinstalling win2k over and over... my drive is a maxtor 10gig 7200rpm ata 100 and never gave me that prob.