BX133-RAID
"This RAID isn't for cockroaches..."
Conclusion:
This is a great motherboard... I firmly believe that Abit has milked every last
drop from the Intel 440BX chipset with this motherboard. The Highpoint HPT370
controller's ATA-100 and RAID features are very righteous. Performance in that
area far exceeded any of my expectations. It seems that any driver and chip
compatibility issues that Highpoint may have had in the past are exactly that...
In the past. Again, this was a very stable motherboard. It never crashed or
stuttered once in all my testing.
Yes, the same issues that have plagued the BX chipset in the past are still
present on this motherboard. Based on what I've seen Abit has done a
spectacular job of getting the kinks out for overclocking up to the 140fsb
range. The Celeron 2 566 that I used was only stable at 850mhz if I jacked the
core voltage up to 1.9v. Yet on this motherboard I was able to run stable at
1.7v. When higher Celeron2 core voltages are available in future BIOS versions,
I'm sure I could easily hit 935mhz on this motherboard at 1.9v. This is a very
sweet overclockers' motherboard for Celeron2 and P3 CPU's that are not already
running on a 133fsb.
In any case... This motherboard would fit the bill nicely for a server if you're
looking for high performance and don't want to break the bank. This is indeed
the best BX motherboard Abit has produced. Too bad they saved the best for
last!
The Good:
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Incredible BX Performance
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Solid and stable overclocking performance
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Great Value compared to similar SCSI setups
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ATA-100 performance nearly doubles ATA-66
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IDE RAID makes a once "computer-phile" feature available
for everyone
The Bad:
Rating: 9/10
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