what processor to go with g400

[Dude]

I agree with the ABIT story,
I now have an ABIT BX6R2 and a G400 and have had zero problems with it. I have a PIII 500 in there and it's rock solid. Can overclock up to 620Mhz with no problems. Nice Motherboard with lots of overclocking options.

Before the ABIT, I had the FIC2013 & G200 and it was a fricken nightmare to get it to run stable. You had to have the right combo of drivers & BIOS to make it stable. Better luck trying to win the Lotto!!!

[Frank]

I must join the abit bandwagon there. My BX6v2 is quite stable with my poor little PII333 screaming its lungs out at 560! heh. The ONLY problem is that I have to go down to 515 for the unreal engine (Unreal, Unreal Tournement, Unreality realestate demo, NotreDame demo, dunno why? except o/c of course).
I was using an even higher FSB (124 instead of 112 as I currently use) when I had my thrashing C300a running at 558 (with peltier). Again, EVERYTHING was stable EXCEPT Unreal at that speed. So I used to drop down to 527 (117FSB). This is on el-cheapo Hitachi 8/10ns ram!
Abit do seem to suffer more stability remarks than Asus on web reviews but in my opinion, Abit are just fine and have served my needs well.

[IceStorm]

I don't HATE Abit boards. I think they get too much good press, when they're really not as good as the press says they are.

I've read about more people with problems with the current crop of Abits than I've seen Asus, Soyo, Chaintech, etc.

I liked the IT5H board from Abit, way back when. I'm not saying that Abit's boards suck compared to all others out ther, but if you've an option between a Soyo 6BA+ III or IV, and an Abit, go Soyo - the Soyo's got as many, if not more, tweaks available than the Abit boards, and has received better stability reviews than the Abits of late (anandtech.com and sharkyextreme.com, if memory serves).

After all the "my G400 doesn't work with blah Abit board" threads, it's a wonder anyone would mate the two together willingly. Me, I bought the G400 MAX, popped it in, and it worked fine from the get-go.

And I do not run my CPU out of spec with respect to voltage. My CPU's operating at 2.0v to the core. My system's solid. No lockups, no weird crashes that I don't cause - nothing strange.

[Greebe]

I got to say... this MS-6167 is rock stable! No one single hiccup... well until I do something like run K7 500's at 750! LOL
Odd IRQ assignments but manageable.

[cirrus]

Right on target captain! MSI6167s IRQ assigments are really odd, If I have free IRQ's why the hell it has to keep putting two devices in same IRQ in certain slots. For Example I can't move my Sound Card and Ethernet card as far away from my MAX, because only way I can get them own IRQs is place them like this:
fi=free isa, fp=free pci, 3=3com NIC, mm=monstersound M=MAX

fi-mm-fp-fp-3-fp-M


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Arto