Someone is selling 3 different gigabyte motherboards. GA6VX7B, GA6BX7 and GA6VTXE. I'm having bit trouble figuring out the differences. Which one of them you would choose or are none of them good and you would wait to find better one?
if they are a bargain, get them. Figure out which one to use later, they all are good boards and the VTXE has confirmed tualatin support.
Decide what you wish, you have a VIA with tualatin support, a BX chipset which is a great chipset in all and the 6VX7B-4X which has ALOT of good features in all.
what are you aiming for in a socket 370 build?
He is selling them with CPUs. GA6VX7B has 866Mhz P3, GA6BX7 has 800Mhz P3 and GA6VTXE has 1266Mhz P3. Also all of them come with 256Mb ram. Prices are between 25 and 30 euros each + shipping.
CPU support:
6VX7B till 1,22 Ghz Tualatin (multiplier till 9,5)
6BX7 till 1,22 Ghz Tualatin (multiplier till 8 )
6VTXE full pentium 3 support upto tualatin 1,4 Ghz (multiplier till 9,5)
all 3 have same FSB support upto 150 Mhz
Memory support:
BX7 upto 768 MB pc-100 support (3x)
VX7B upto 1,5 Gb PC-133
VTXE upto 1,5 Gb PC-133
chipset:
6VX7B VIA Apollo Pro Ultra ATA 100/66
BX7 Intel 440BX IDE UDMA 33
VTXE VIA 694T/686B Ultra ATA 100/66
The VX7B and VTXE both have a "shared" ISA iirc and the BX has 2 isa slots
the rest is pretty much the same or very similar, these are to me the most important details which to decide the choice on. personally for a Socket 370 build I would choose a intel chipset over a Via chipset, but the via chipset offers its advantaged in terms of memory and UDMA, but the BX board has 2 isa slots if you value that higher though. The VX7B would fall of for me since its the least desirable of the 3 in terms of features, the decision is hard to make imo.