The Asus P2B-F was launched and rumoured to support the overclocker by providing undocumented voltage tweaks, so naturally interest was high. First impressions are good. The BX chipsets expansion possibilities are used to their full extent which is always commendable.
Build quality is reassuringly high.
10 high quality 1000uf capacitors straddle the Slot1 interface, and the voltage regulator is supported by 4 more Sanyo 1000 uf capacitors. The 4 DIMM slots allow for up to 1 Gigabyte of memory. CPU setup is controlled via jumper - something you don't see too much nowadays. Multipliers for the CPU are silk-screened onto the board, although strangely they are hidden away between the ISA slots rather than positioned conveniently near the jumper set itself. For most CPU's which are now multiplier locked, jumper setup is not really an issue, but for pre-august 1998 CPU's a jumper driven setup does seem a little clunky in this day and age.