On 7 Jul 99, at 13:47, William G House wrote:

> I will greatly appreciate someone explaining the difference in a "440BX6
> Motherboard" and a "P2XBL Motherboard".

  The former is almost certainly the "BX6" model, made by Abit.  The latter
is made by DFI.

  Comparing

http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bx6_20.htm

  to

http://www.computerbazar.com/ustad/av/dfip2xbl.htm

I can quickly see that the BX6 offers 4 DIMM sockets (to the P2XBL's 3) and 5
PCI slots (to the P2XBL's 4).

  The BX6 also provides "SoftMenu", allowing the board to be configured for a
given CPU via the CMOS setup rather than via jumpers.  This is not a vital
feature, but it is clearly superior.

  Many Celeron CPUs, although designed to run with a 66 MHz FSB, can be
successfully operated with a 100 MHz FSB instead, a 50% "overclock",
providing performance competitive with PII and PIII CPUs for a fraction of
the price.
  However, not all Celerons will do this successfully at their designed 2.0
volt power setting.  For some chips, stable operation atr this speed is
possible only if the voltage is "tweaked" a little -- usually up, but
sometimes down.
  The BX6 SoftMenu provides control of the CPu power supply voltage as well;
as far as I can tell, the P2XBL does not offer a way to adjust the voltage.

  I see the BX6 listed at $98 and the P2XBL at $89.




David G

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