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Toaster · 03-08-2002, 08:37 AM

Howdy,
These folks are doing you a favor by recommending an Intel based system board.
Reason is stability and ease in set-up. Asus and Abit make fine boards as does Soyo. You "should" choose a board with an Intel chipset "and" have support for the newer Intel "Tualitin" class processors.
The Tualitin at the register level is a P4 in diguise. As for overclocking, the Tualitin Celeron (Celatin) is a VERY eager chip. One you meet the goals of having support for these CPUs (even if you plan to use an existing CPU), the world will be golden for you. The Intel "Tualitin" line looks to go some time as the manufacturing is very similar to the P4 design.
The VIA chipset used on the other system boards have their share of problems and the lack of a refined chipset driver. Intel chipset drivers are both refined and mature meaning no need for periodic "patches" to correct design errors.
For VIA to avoid "copyright infringement" and "loyalties", they must produce a chipset that runs the X86 class CPU (Intel, AMD, Cyrix and others), they have to redesign certain aspects to avoid such legal hassles. This is also the reson for their drivers and stability issues.
While Intel makes a great stable system board, their boards are NOT an overclockers friend. So....a 3rd party system board UTILIZING an Intel chipset is perferred.

Motto of the day:
When Intel, use Intel.

03-08-2002, 08:37 AM	#11
Toaster Member (13 bit) Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Now in Phoenix, AZ. Where next? Only 8 states left to see. Posts: 4,661	Howdy, These folks are doing you a favor by recommending an Intel based system board. Reason is stability and ease in set-up. Asus and Abit make fine boards as does Soyo. You "should" choose a board with an Intel chipset "and" have support for the newer Intel "Tualitin" class processors. The Tualitin at the register level is a P4 in diguise. As for overclocking, the Tualitin Celeron (Celatin) is a VERY eager chip. One you meet the goals of having support for these CPUs (even if you plan to use an existing CPU), the world will be golden for you. The Intel "Tualitin" line looks to go some time as the manufacturing is very similar to the P4 design. The VIA chipset used on the other system boards have their share of problems and the lack of a refined chipset driver. Intel chipset drivers are both refined and mature meaning no need for periodic "patches" to correct design errors. For VIA to avoid "copyright infringement" and "loyalties", they must produce a chipset that runs the X86 class CPU (Intel, AMD, Cyrix and others), they have to redesign certain aspects to avoid such legal hassles. This is also the reson for their drivers and stability issues. While Intel makes a great stable system board, their boards are NOT an overclockers friend. So....a 3rd party system board UTILIZING an Intel chipset is perferred. Motto of the day: When Intel, use Intel. __________________ 2 goldfish were discussing Mythology. The discussion ended when a goldfish replied: "There MUST be a God, who changes the water?" Last edited by Toaster; 03-08-2002 at 08:41 AM.