nice collection :) i like the ones with vga onboard!
i hope you didn't get me wrong: i never wanted to say that those boards are crap (i have plenty sold S7 boards and they still rock as fileservers or standalone players or...) but i wanted to remind you that these boards have limits you'd better know before damaging cpu, board or both.
so for the standard application i'd stick with some Intel Pentium or AMD K6, Cyrix 6x86MX or Intel MMX with additional cooling for the regulator. an operating system that supports HLT commands at idle (like Linux) really helps a lot. adding additional capacitors to the output of the regulator could help increasing stability.
if you'd really want to get a kick out of one or two boards i'd get a vrm (and a K6-2+) as KachiWachi already proposed and some decent large RAM modules.
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No I figured you were just giving advice based on the fact I might notcp wrote:i hope you didn't get me wrong: i never wanted to say that those boards are crap (i have plenty sold S7 boards and they still rock as fileservers or standalone players or...) but i wanted to remind you that these boards have limits you'd better know before damaging cpu, board or both..
know thier limits, & tbh, I normally wouldn't waste my time on an fx
chipset board, but as I posted earlier, the latter revision of this same
board had cpu multiplication settings that blew me away for an fx chipset
board, so for the sake of looking I did a quick search thinking it must
have been a good thing in it's day..
Then when Jan had emailed me after modding a bios, I figured I'd have
to at least test it out on these erlier boards here, it's a shame now that I
didn't keep the latter revision of it...
Yeah i'm thinking that way myself too sometimes...cp wrote:nice collectioni like the ones with vga onboard!
I have a 439TX chipset board here that I can't bring myself to scrapping,
again it looks as though it must have been the ducks guts in it's day...
An asus TX98-xv.
Takes sd ram only, has onboard video, atx power only, has a 2mb
AT29C020 dip type bios chip, 5.5 x multiplication from factory, has the parallel
ports, usb ports com ports & ps2 mouse & keyboard all built onto a full size
board that looks like a late system, & a 4wire temp sensor, speed controlled
cpu fan, & a temp sensored fan controller for the atx power supply, with came
with it..(the power supply that is).
The onboard video is an ATi 264VT2 Mach64 with an amc port.
That pic I posted of motherboards was the pile to be scrapped, the amountcp wrote:if you'd really want to get a kick out of one or two boards i'd get a vrm (and a K6-2+) as KachiWachi already proposed and some decent large RAM modules.
I keep would be 10 fold, i'm sort of over playing with them too much unless
they're something different..
