Introduction
Well times do seem to change, a year ago the prospect of having 3D applications running under Linux was a painful one. Whereas the Windows market had a large number of cards to choose from, unless you had a voodoo (one or two) there was only software 3D for you. 3D under Linux has become very exciting over the last few months - with a much bigger handful of cards being supported. Most of these are supported under the DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) architecture, and the NVIDIA based graphics cards being support under there own drivers. This review will look at the ASUS P3V4X and Celeron2 sitting in a Abit Slocket. The Celeron2 is the 566MHz version over clocked to 850MHz, and the motherboard is based on the VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset.Motherboard Intro
In terms of motherboards I was very excited to play with this one, ASUS have made a very good board, with the ability to tweak every single part of it from the memory speed to the FSB makes this a very nice motherboard for over clocking indeed. Now pay attention here come those lovely little stats. It supports Intel Pentium II/III 233 to 933+MHz Copper mine and Celeron2 processors with the use of those handy little slocket boards from abit. The chipset is equipped with 133MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), and support for PC133 SDRAM, AGP 4X, Ultra DMA/66, Wake-On LAN, Ring, Keyboard/Mouse, as well as Chassis Intrusion Detection and with there being SIX PCI Slots you can put even more hardware into you box.
