From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 30 22:50:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05736 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA05668 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 31 Jul 1997 05:47:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:47:02 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: Howard Lew cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom Samplonius Subject: Re: Pentium II? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Socket 7 motherboards we carry go up to 363MHz (66 x 5.5) and above > > (83MHZ x 4.5). I expect ZIF-8 solutions to be available soon from > > competitive vendors. > Anyone know what brands of motherboards with 5.5X jumpers are available > now? I know FreeTech has one, but then it is a VX chipset one. The first mentioned is the Gigabyte GA-586HX2-512 (rev 2.0). The second is the ASUS TX-series. We have also been evaluating a *jumperless* motherboard manufactrued by ABIT. It seems really nice at first; the bus frequency, multiplier, and voltage are all set in the BIOS. It gives options for 50,55,60,66,75 and 83MHz, with multipliers up to 5.5X. The only, and major, downfall is that you CAN NOT OVERCLOCK! How silly is that? As soon as you exceed spec, it either auto-resets the values or runs unreliably. I couldn't even squeak 187.5MHZ out of a K6-166... It amazes me that the board can actually tell the difference. Pentiums also had similar results. I know the "hobbyist" would get a bit frustrated. Kevin