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  • #16
    Chris H,

    I'll have my BE6 today. I can try and let you know after the weekend (my days and nights are no longer my own for a while) how things worked out...

    LB

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    Running an ABIT BX6 R2, PIII-450 @ 581Mhz, 128MB (64x2) PC100SDRAM (running @ 129), Matrox Mystique G200 8MB, SBLive! Value, Adaptec AHA-2940UW (Dual Channel)
    All kinds of other SCSI and ATAPI goodies....
    -------------
    Waiting for my G400Max Impatiently, increasing system performance to give it a good home.....
    Gaming Rig.

    - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
    - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
    - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
    - 6.1 Digital Audio
    - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
    - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
    - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
    - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
    - LS120 IDE Floppy
    - Zip 100 IDE
    - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
    - NEC FE950
    - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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    • #17
      Cheers Guyver,

      I'll look out for your findings

      Chris.

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      • #18
        I really goofed on that last post. I've never triple posted before. BIOS tweaks...I will edit this later with more detail, I am at work right now so do not have access to my BIOS, but here is what I did (all done in Power Management or Power for P3B-F owners):

        Power Management: User Defined
        Everything else...Disabled or Off

        One of my friends just picked up a BE6, it will be fun to test it against my P3B-F. Keep you posted.

        Jammrock

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        PIII 540 (120 MHz x 4.5 - 540), 256 MB PC133 SDRAM, ASUS P3B-F, Winblows 98 SuckyEdition, 18 GB WD Expert HDD, Encore 6x DVD w/ Dxr3 decoder, (TEMPORARY!!!) Voodoo 3 2000 @ 175 MHz which will be replaced by a Matrox G400 MAX, Sound Blaster Live! full retail, MAG DX715T 17
        “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
        –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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        • #19
          Thanks Jammrock,
          I am very happy with my Aopen AX6BC for performance and stability but the allure of Asus and 6 PCI is great. Secondly, I am hoping that being PC99, ACPI will work eventually(ACPI has been the bane of my life for too long-A Completely Pathetic Invention-but I want it bad). I dream of a PC sleeping peacefully just like a TV on standby, using almost no electricity and ready to burst into life in a few seconds for a quick fix of Quake until my next chicken out save. I noticed that on Aopens website, their latest board, the AX63 with the VIA 133 chipset, specifically lists my Mystique G200 as NOT ACPI compliant. I have always suspected my Mystique to be the stumbling block and cannot get to the bottom of whether it is the driver/PD, chipset design. Maybe PD 5.2? will fix it and maybe the G400 is ACPI compliant?????? Any answers, ideas anyone-Haig??? Please keep us in touch Jammrock with your motherboard experiences.
          Cheers
          Brent

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          • #20
            Well guys and gals....

            Check it out...

            G200 @ 89Mhz AGP1X
            PIII450 @ - You guessed it... 600Mhz...

            Here's some scores to wet your appetites...

            Project Settings (Template):
            Rendering Platform: Internal (Matrox Mystique G200 AGP - English)
            Resolution: 640*480
            Color Depth: 16-bit Color
            CPU Optimization: Intel(r) Pentium(r) III
            Z-Buffer: 16-bit
            Frame Buffer: Triple buffering
            Refresh Rate: VSync Off
            Looping: Disabled
            Texture Format: 16-bit, 4444 RGBA
            Run Tests: Once
            Title Screen: Shown

            Test Results:
            3DMark Result : 3,913 3DMarks
            Synthetic CPU 3D Speed : 9,456 CPU 3DMarks
            Rasterizer Score : 1,012 3DRasterMarks
            Game 1 - Race: 47.2 FPS
            Game 2 - First Person: 33.4 FPS
            Fill Rate : 87.2 MTexels/s
            Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing : 87.4 MTexels/s
            2MB Texture Rendering Speed: 204.9 FPS
            4MB Texture Rendering Speed: 183.0 FPS
            8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 103.6 FPS
            16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 72.6 FPS
            32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 58.9 FPS
            Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass: 75.7 FPS
            Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass: Not Supported
            Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass: Not Supported
            Point Sample Texture Filtering Speed: 109.9 %
            Bilinear Texture Filtering Speed: 100.0 %
            Trilinear Texture Filtering Speed: 70.1 %
            Anisotropic Texture Filtering Speed: Not Supported
            6 Pixel/individual: 835.2 KPolygons/s
            6 Pixel/strips: 831.8 KPolygons/s
            25 Pixel/individual: 826.8 KPolygons/s
            25 Pixel/strips: 828.3 KPolygons/s
            50 Pixel/individual: 704.8 KPolygons/s
            50 Pixel/strips: 748.3 KPolygons/s
            250 Pixel/individual: 225.7 KPolygons/s
            250 Pixel/strips: 240.3 KPolygons/s
            1000 Pixel/individual: 66.7 KPolygons/s
            1000 Pixel/strips: 72.2 KPolygons/s

            Can't get the G200 to stay @ or above 3900/4000 very often, but it does happen.

            Rockin'....

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            Running an ABIT BE6, PIII-450 @ 600Mhz, 128MB (128x1) PC133HSDRAM (running @ 133), Matrox Mystique G200 8MB, SBLive! Value, Adaptec AHA-2940UW (Dual Channel)
            All kinds of other SCSI and ATAPI goodies....
            -------------
            Waiting for my G400Max Impatiently, increasing system performance to give it a good home.....

            Gaming Rig.

            - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
            - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
            - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
            - 6.1 Digital Audio
            - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
            - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
            - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
            - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
            - LS120 IDE Floppy
            - Zip 100 IDE
            - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
            - NEC FE950
            - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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            • #21
              Guyver,

              600MHz - Nice one

              What's the voltage?
              CPU temperature?
              Any special cooling?

              Chris.

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              • #22
                Cris H,

                Thanks!

                2.0V (default)

                39C - After running Prime95 all night long....

                Added 1 small fan that sits on top of the G200 under the heatsink channel. Air blows up through the channel, and mid-way up the factory fan blows air in the channel. Gives a positive airflow for the CPU. I also have a 4500RPM fan attached to the G200 heatsink (AAVID) used to be attached to a PII-266 that someone else trashed.

                Yee-Haw... I'm liking it.

                Each iteration of Prime95 was only .075-.076 seconds...


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                Running an ABIT BE6, PIII-450 @ 600Mhz, 128MB (128x1) PC133HSDRAM (running @ 133), Matrox Mystique G200 8MB, SBLive! Value, Adaptec AHA-2940UW (Dual Channel)
                All kinds of other SCSI and ATAPI goodies....
                -------------
                Waiting for my G400Max Impatiently, increasing system performance to give it a good home.....

                Gaming Rig.

                - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
                - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
                - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
                - 6.1 Digital Audio
                - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
                - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
                - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
                - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
                - LS120 IDE Floppy
                - Zip 100 IDE
                - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
                - NEC FE950
                - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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                • #23
                  Excellent

                  My K6-III 450 runs at 52C, even with its massive socket 7 heatsink & fan! (not overclocked).

                  I want to return to Slot 1 (and overclocking ), hence the questions I've been asking about the BE6 and the P3B-F.

                  Now, how much are PIII 450's this month......


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                  • #24
                    Chris H,

                    I'll throw up a little review on the General Hardware thread about the P3B-F and BE6 after I get a chance to test them both over the weekend.

                    Jammrock

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                    PIII 540 (120 MHz x 4.5 - 540), 256 MB PC133 SDRAM, ASUS P3B-F, Winblows 98 SuckyEdition, 18 GB WD Expert HDD, Encore 6x DVD w/ Dxr3 decoder, (TEMPORARY!!!) Voodoo 3 2000 @ 175 MHz which will be replaced by a Matrox G400 MAX, Sound Blaster Live! full retail, MAG DX715T 17
                    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                    –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                    • #25
                      Chris H,

                      www.pricewatch.com

                      Currently PIII-450 @ 222 (lowest) - this website lists prices from lots of different vendors....

                      My SCSI controller is the only thing holding me back - my system would post and boot off of an IDE hard drive @ 630Mhz (140FSB)...

                      LB

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                      Running an ABIT BE6, PIII-450 @ 600Mhz, 128MB (128x1) PC133HSDRAM (running @ 133), Matrox Mystique G200 8MB, SBLive! Value, Adaptec AHA-2940UW (Dual Channel)
                      All kinds of other SCSI and ATAPI goodies....
                      -------------
                      Waiting for my G400Max Impatiently, increasing system performance to give it a good home.....


                      [This message has been edited by Guyver (edited 07-23-99).]
                      Gaming Rig.

                      - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
                      - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
                      - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
                      - 6.1 Digital Audio
                      - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
                      - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
                      - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
                      - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
                      - LS120 IDE Floppy
                      - Zip 100 IDE
                      - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
                      - NEC FE950
                      - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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                      • #26
                        Cheers Jammrock - much appreciated .

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