ola
Newbie
OK, here's the deal. I'm going to buy a computer through my company and this means that the prices are really low due to wierd tax deductions etc. I'm looking at paying 1/3 to 1/2 of the real price, spread out on three years of monthly payments, so the price is less of an issue this time.
As you might remember, I'm into a dual setup and I will get dual Cumines. I will get a FastTrack RAID controller so I don't need fancy IDE controllers on the board. The four extra drives means a lot of extra heat etc. so I'll skip overclocking. Dual PIII 700+MHz will have to do I will be running W2000 and wonder if I really need full ACPI compliance. I've read that W2000 "needs" ACPI compliant boards to run properly and that it's not only for power management.
I've been looking all over the net and cannot decide on which board to get. They all lack something (or have built in crap). Which is the best dual PIII BX-based board on the market? I've been eying the Asus P2B-D (only 4 PCI, what's the highest multiplier - 8.0X?, jumpers) and the Tyan Tiger 100 rev. F (no voltage tweak, not ACPI?). They're both pretty old but I cannot find any new BX-based dual saviours.
Help! Please point me to some good reviews or whatever. All reviews I can find are either biased towards overclocking or too vague.
/Ola
As you might remember, I'm into a dual setup and I will get dual Cumines. I will get a FastTrack RAID controller so I don't need fancy IDE controllers on the board. The four extra drives means a lot of extra heat etc. so I'll skip overclocking. Dual PIII 700+MHz will have to do I will be running W2000 and wonder if I really need full ACPI compliance. I've read that W2000 "needs" ACPI compliant boards to run properly and that it's not only for power management.
I've been looking all over the net and cannot decide on which board to get. They all lack something (or have built in crap). Which is the best dual PIII BX-based board on the market? I've been eying the Asus P2B-D (only 4 PCI, what's the highest multiplier - 8.0X?, jumpers) and the Tyan Tiger 100 rev. F (no voltage tweak, not ACPI?). They're both pretty old but I cannot find any new BX-based dual saviours.
Help! Please point me to some good reviews or whatever. All reviews I can find are either biased towards overclocking or too vague.
/Ola