First post, by Nemo1985
Hello, I decided I have too many slot1 builds and I want to get rid of some of them.
I have the following slot 1motherboards:
Abit BE6-II
MSI Bx-Master
Gigabyte GA-6BXC Rev2
Bona BN693A (combo slot1\socket370)
Slot 1 cpus:
Pentium II 400
Pentium III 450
Celeron 300 cacheless
Celeron 400
Socket 370 motherboards:
QDI Advance 10T
ECS P6S5AT (defective waiting for a full recap)
another socket 370 motherboard with via chipset (133A probably).
Socket 370 cpus:
Pentium 3 1000
Tualatin 1333
various celeron\p3 cpus from 600 to 866mhz.
About the bx boards, msi and abit are the fatest ones, they both have an additional ata66 controller and they both have 1 isa slot, gigabyte board is reliable but slower compared to the abit or msi, but it has 3 isa slots and no additional ide controller.
So I'd say abit and msi boards do the same thing but i'm undecided if keep them both since they are great motherboards with little differences. The gigabyte would be interesting if I am looking for many isa slots (but hardly I use more than 1) it has far less bios options and bus speed settings, lower performance.
The Bona slot1\socket370 can be used to test a multiple kind of cpus thanks to the combo slot\socket370, but performance wise is very slow (especially on dos), it doesn't support 133mhz on slot1.
About the 370 motherboards: I'd like to keep the ECS and the QDI in a case (the first one is without cpu since needs a recap, the qdi has the tualatin cpu) while the other motherboard it's quite useless imho.
Is there any good reason I should keep the gigabyte and the other s370 unidentified board?