"Chris Mauritz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running one with dual P3-750E's without any problems. I've tried to use
> 750E's with a Supermicro PIIIDME (i840 board) and had nothing but problems
> so I switched to the DBE (BX board) and have been very happy.
Interesting. I would appear to have older P6DBE's that cannot handle the
lower core voltage in the PIII's so I'll have to upgrade our MB's. I was
looking very hard at the PIIIDME, as they look like nice boards and I've
always had good luck with SuperMicro dual boards. Could you be more
specific on what kinds of problems you were having and could others second
this opinion on the PIIIDME?
> The only real
> limitation of the DBE is that it only supports 1gb of RAM. You may have an
> issue with the 133mhz bus speed though since a BX board doesn't have the
> right AGP divisor for that speed. If you have a video card that can deal
> with being overclocked, you should have no problems.
We're not upgrading our memory this time around so 100Mhz FSB is all we
need, but I would like to the option to upgrade later. Since it's a
compute-cluster AGP is a non-issue. If the PIIIDME is brain-damaged we
might go with newer P6DBE's instead, since they're much cheaper and have
would have all the features we'd need. We probably won't be upgrading for 2
or more years after this.
Unfortunately they sprang a deadline on us we didn't expect and have to
make our puchasing decisions by tomorrow. Any recommendations on a good
dual PII MB are welcome. Price is not much of an issue, we can spend
upwards of ~$450 a board if they're good boards.
- Steve
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