subhuman@xgtx wrote:I won't really recommend ever fiddling around with those M537 boards. They're very unstable, are fully jumpered, feel sluggish and don't really support any drives above 8.1gb natively. The only real' good is the M572, which has the 430TX, can overclock up to 83fsb/adjust vcore from 2.2 to 3.5, and is fully jumperless.
I will have to do an in depth test of the VX Pro board I got in a board lot last year. My board is the M537-DMA33 version if I remember right but the VIA VP1 and VPX chipset are pretty much the same and the board versions otherwise identical.
I used the board as a system builder back then with good results (for the money it cost). In my expereince the stability was decent but the performance a bit lacklustre compared to an Intel chipset board. I never really understood what all the fuss over the VX Pro is all about. Sometimes I get the feeling people read the Red Hill guide like the Bible when it in fact is just the experience and point of view of a single small computer shop from back then.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.