I use the cheap Epox D3VA, with the following setup Dual PIII 866/FSB133, 512 MB RAM wimp > /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev c4) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Apollo PRO] (rev 23) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10) 00:07.3 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3050 (rev 30) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c875 (rev 03) 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02) 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02) 00:0b.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 (rev 03) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05) 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 08) 00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 03) and 6 drives, 1 cdrom, and 1 tape drive in it. I've used a BP6 before, and compared to that the Epox board is much more stable (no crashes so far, even under days of continuous high load - multimedia stuff + I/O). The BX chipset was kind of faster though, so now I have this PCI-latency WinTV issue. But I guess you don't want to watch TV on it. The only thing beside that is that the BIOS (or the BIOS menu) is not set up consistently and the box might even crash when I watch the temperature in BIOS. I'd recommend to update the BIOS to the latest version. As I said, no problem under Linux though. I've been thinking about a VP6, too, but the Epox still has one ISA slot for the oldfashioned, and was cheaper.
